The Effects of War on the landscape

[Urban Ranger]

I don't think battles have any real effects on landscape per se. Improvements maybe, but not on the terrain.

Now don't land units have the ability to destroy improvements already? Maybe Firaxis can extend the number of nasty things they can do, like salting the fields or something.

No need for hit points and complicated stuff.

[Vrank Prins]

Re: Time Erosion

Originally posted by DarkCloud
The war should have an erosive effect.
One war on tile x does nothing
Two wars on tile x gives it 10% less yield
Three wars on tile x gives it 20% less yield
This increases with 15% less yield per year.
But it receeds 5% for every 10 years with no war on the tile.

About half a year ago I suggested something like this. Though in a different context. My idea is that infrastructure on a tile which has been left "undone" , which it is not being worked on for some time, will start to deteriorate and in the end will vanish completely. That's what happened to a lot of places during wartime in the past and even now.
f.i. During the 30-year war (1618 - 1648) in Germany there were parts of Saxony and Frankenland which were completely depopulated due to the war and everything that came with it (plundering, disease). That made some parts of the cultivated landscape over the years completely turn "wild" again. And even now there are still parts which have remained in that condition (and are given the status of nature resort).


In principle I like your idea I would apply it like this.

one turn ündone > no effect
two turns > 25% less yield and loss of infrastructure (whatever there is to be found on a tile); one turn repair
four turns > 50% less yield and loss of infrastructure; two turn repairs
eight turns > complete loss of yield and infrastructure; full repair time

[DarkCloud]

Repairs

I think it should repair over time- and you have an option of repairing it yourself.

Roads should have to be repaired and Rails should as well as any man-made improvements, but the land itself should 'heal' itself and its forests or plains from a charred wasteland over time.

[Vrank Prins]

I think you're right.
Having to do all the repairs would mean extra micromanagement.

[bagdar]

Since we now have exhausting resources, War does effect the landscape by consuming too much iron, etc. and destroying that mine. In the past, huge forests have been choped away to build warships, so if we have 'wood' as a resource, we'll sure be having expiring forests.