Resourciv: Economic Models

Some more Resourciv updates! These are actually implemented in-game, but they have implications for how I design leading forward. Production I was giving myself a headache thinking about how, whether I increased the granularity of populations or kept it as unitary as it is now, I would need to deal with the most annoying part of economic games: allocating labor. Assigning peeps to individual hexes is stupid but so is giving them a list of jobs which give and take any amount of random resources; what if the numbers worked around me? There’s a nifty little formula called the Cobb-Douglas production function which handles that as well as diminishing returns: if you imagine, just because you have a bunch of cooks in the kitchen doesn’t mean you make more food, and the same if you have more kitchens than you have cooks. Labor is apparently more useful than capital since its diminishing returns (if it exceeds capital) are less so than capital (if it exceeds labor), and this is represented…