bluemonday
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I'm not sure I understand what is going on with labor allocation. Here is an example: I start out in Piedmont with all of my labor allocated to textiles, agriculture, and luxuries. Unallocated = 0. The key commodity in this example is Spice. Right now it says Piedmont is producing +1 Spice, and my total production of Spice is +27 (although as Beorn has pointed out, who knows what that box really means). Now I crank my agriculture down. Unallocated labor = 23. Spice production is still +1. As I understand it, Spice production is tied to Luxury allocation? Ok. But even though my Spice production in Piedmont has not changed, the box underneath now says +24. By my reading of this screen, my empire is now producing 3 fewer Spice somehow, but the Spice production in this province is unchanged. ?? Ok, I lower the Agriculture allocation further. Unallocated = 30. Spice production is still +1, but now my overall production box reads +27 again. This means that lowering my Agriculture first dropped my overall Spice production, but then further lowering restored it. All while production in this province remained unchanged. I then took everything out of Textile production and threw it into Agriculture, raising my Agriculture allocation to more than it has been at the beginning of the example. Result? Still no change in Spice production in Piedmont, but overall Spice production dropped again to +24. Since my understanding of Spice is that it is tied to allocation in Luxuries, I lowered the Agriculture allocation and put the remainder into Luxuries. The Spice production went up to +4, but the total Spice produced box shows it at +27, which is the same number it showed when I was producing 3 fewer Spice. So that means that while significantly raised my Spice production in this province, it actually doesn't seem to have changed the overall production at all. In fact, when playing with this slider, I was able to set it to +2 or +3 Spice, which yielded overall numbers of +25 and +26, respectively. That means that at these settings, my Spice production was less overall than it was before I changed anything, yet I was producing more Spice in this one province. I took screenshots of all this but decided against posting them since it seems like overkill. But the questions remain: Is Agriculture labor somehow tied to Spice production? Or is it just Luxury labor? * If the former, why is isn't the provincial Spice production affected, and just the overall number is? * If the latter, why does changing the Agriculture level change anything? How can I be producing more of something after changing the sliders in a province, but overall end up with less? And what does that overall box really mean? Is it incorporating some other calculations? Is there waste or trade in there than is affected by production of other goods tied to agriculture that is somehow tied to overall Spice?
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