Definitely.
If I am not mistaken something like this was one of the main downfalls and millstones of civs that died in the Bronze Age Collapse. The weight of their scribe and literate classes and admin was enough to topple them if the wrong shit broke at the wrong time.
You mean the Ymaryn? Yeah.
Econ represents more labor per point than wealth, though, i'm pretty sure; its more expensive to build a watermill and have a dozen people work it than it is to assign a few hundred to more primitive mills, but it does save manhours/labor, because it only requires, say, 2 dozen people to produce that wealth, because wealth producers like miners are relatively elite trained professionals. So we trade ~3 dozen workers between the watermill and in mines/snail cultivation/etc for a few hundred in primitive mills
A lot of our firewood and maybe charcoal (in retrospect, don't know enough about charcoal to say if we can make it with just branches or if we need larger individual pieces of wood...) comes from dropped branches, actually, to the point that per WoG our trees are (slowly but surely) evolving towards dropping a shitload of branches, because it's rewarded by our planting and harvesting style.
I gotta say this makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
"Bleeding edge technology is a category of technologies so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of them."
And The People replant them afterwords. Most civs didn't do that.
It probably does, but when faced with the cost of 10 [main]s, 20 economy, 20 mysticism, and 10 art, they go "fuck that, just go ask the Ymaryn for help."
The other nice thing is that we have this giant area that we're not doing anything with ATM. Likely it's perfect for pine plantations. Better, if we can keep the cultivation going, pine remains the single most valuable industrial wood today.
I meant in terms of the original sacred forest megaproject (which...i think only took us 3 turns with way less resources and actions, and a much smaller scale and tech level?) since the comparison was to the Pyramids wonder obsoleting the Mountain megaproject. I was also applying the same principle to fears that someone (The Khemetri) could Wonder us out of the Palace, or the Place to the Stars, or the dam, or other megaprojects that are not really based on wonder and awe. The dam probably doesn't have a wonder for it, but i could see there being a wonder upgrade for hte palace; i just couldn't see it preventing other civs from building the basic palace, just like i don't think Sacred Forest Renewal would prevent other civs from taking the original Sacred Forest if they had the traits and circumstances to do so in the first place
Can you plot that on a log scale? As it is, it isn't clear that there is any sort of inflection point at the end; it just looks like the exponential took a while to get to the part of the curve where we could see it.
But we're better, because we replant them, unlike industrial/ early modern logging
You're neglecting the action cost.
Well, yes. I've been arguing that it's an excellent action for a while now.
I don't have the data unfortunately. I was wanting that too.
Manifest Destiny variant near as we can tell, for war aims. Basically they have been doing incredibly well in this climate, their swamp expanding, so they think their gods are blessing them. Near as we can figure this has lead them into grabbing up as much land as they can so that if the climate suddenly shifts back they won't be shafted, so variant Manifest Destiny. Or at least that's the closest term we could find.
Thing is, a Vineyard isn't just (or even MOSTLY) about getting Wealth/Art. They are more about establishing greater market share in a trade good. Same as Expand Snail Cultivation and Plant Poppies.
