How will this interact with foliage? Also, what happens when you gain laND from Brown. I think its supposed to add to level 1,but that’s never stated

You’ve got a leftover “neither Rising nor Falling” in the new Tectonics rule.

Thanks both, have edited.

@derrick Tricky. I’ll have a think.

Okay, this should work with foliage now, albeit with a bit more tinkering needed.

The foliage interaction is currently weak, but it’s preserved, and can be tweaked. (I’d prefer the sum of land,  but whatever)

I had some plans for mechanisms, but I couldn’t figure out how to make them interact with land without getting too complex.  This solves all those problems. Well done.  Waiting for the two hour mark.

I’m struggling with a couple things here—first, the double meaning of Level (“my Level is 3 so I add a new Level at 0”), and second, the idea in the metaphor that sea levels are what determines tectonic activity.

@Brendan - Levels are the measure of altitude (‘My altitude is 3 so I have 3 levels’) if that helps - and wrt sea levels, the central metaphor of the dynasty (for me at least) is the sea levels receeding after a vast flood, so it’s less about land rising than the sea falling back and exposing what’s already there.

I’m not mega attached to theme but that might help at least explain what’s going on in my head.

> If the rule Growth contains the text “If an island’s foliage would be set higher than an island’s Land, it is instead set equal to the island’s land” change all instances of the word “land” in that sentence to “Level”.

Not sure I like this bit. Intuitively, a flat island with lots of Land should be able to support lots of Foliage.

But here if your land was 2,10 (nice big flat land with a couple of hills) you could support 2 Foliage. But if its 1,0,0,0,1 (basically just a giant pillar sticking out of the water) you can support 4 Foliage.

@clucky: I agree, and I already am considering adjustments. I don’t think its a deal breaker though.

@Brendan:you can view the strong versus receding sea as what it looks like from the point of view of the beach, if that helps

It’s not entirely clear what “adjusting its Land value accordingly.” means..

I don’t mind the way the Growth rule is going with this, but I feel like it could be worded better.

I’d like to see this re-proposed (with the above fixed).

hmmm that paragraph in Growth does need some work. i had to read it twice to glean what it meant.

This seems too unclear on how increasing level changes land distribution. A new level defaults to 0, but you can only ever add land to the bottom level?