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JMRC
05-14-2007, 00:38
How does the AI calculates the number of days that a city stands besieged?

I would think that the "Food" value in EDU for each of the besieged units plus some standard "Food" value for the population, should be taken into account [Total T = Unit U + Population P].

A "Food" value for each city (based on the city/village's farm level and wealth - money income) [C] would be divided by the total obtained above [T] and this would give the number of days under siege [# days = C / T]

However, it is widely said that the "Food" value in EDU was never used by the game. So, this whole "theory" doesn't stand.

Can someone give me a clue?
Foot
05-14-2007, 00:57
Size of walls.

Foot
Griever14206
05-14-2007, 01:05
Yeah, it's really that simple. If you read the description of the walls, at least in Vanilla RTW, it is described that the upgrade also includes larger emergency storage for food to be used whilst the settlement is under siege.
kalkwerk
05-14-2007, 05:12
Cant be. Why do some sieges of settlements without walls take 3 and other 8 turns? Must be size of city too.
Thaatu
05-14-2007, 05:28
I believe it's city size and walls that determine it. For example my Seleukeia with wooden walls and 42,000 inhabitants holds out for 8 or 9 turns.

Btw, isn't it a bit odd that sieges have no effect on settlement growth..?
Dyabedes of Aphrodisias
05-14-2007, 05:44
I believe it's city size and walls that determine it. For example my Seleukeia with wooden walls and 42,000 inhabitants holds out for 8 or 9 turns.

Btw, isn't it a bit odd that sieges have no effect on settlement growth..?
You're locked in with nothing to do but be horny...

And yeah, it's both. I don't have a city that can have stone walls that doesn't.
MarcusAureliusAntoninus
05-14-2007, 07:56
City Size
Wall Size
and some character related eliments. I believe that if the faction leader is in a settlement it will hold out longer, IIRC.
Geoffrey S
05-14-2007, 09:24
I found it a shame Rome didn't have the feature Medieval had, namely that the larger the army inside the walls the shorter the siege would be due to limited food supplies.