Settlements are cities with glass jaws?

[grimjaw]

Why do settlements want so much supply?

SupplyProd = 2
AmmoProd = 1
Out_WSU = 0
Out_Money = 0
Out_Conscript = 0
SupplyWant = 20
AmmoWant = 6
MinLevelSend = 10
MinLevelWant = 1

A level 1 city has lesser needs.

SupplyProd = 6
AmmoProd = 0
Out_WSU = 0
Out_Money = 0
Out_Conscript = 0
SupplyWant = 4
AmmoWant = 4
MinLevelSend = 3
MinLevelWant = 3

As most of us have seen, this has the effect of making settlements into bloated areas, while the lowest level of city can barely supply an infantry regiment sometimes.

[Captain_Orso]

Wait, is this a trick question like, why did the chicken cross the road o.O?

I believe settlements are like stockades with less protection. They certainly draw supplies like stockades, and I once had a battle in one--I believe I was assaulting--with the aftermath saying that the fort in so-n-so was destroyed in the battle.

[grimjaw]

When I think of "setllement" I think frontier settlement. While I can understand that they would want to stock up on supplies, I still think of them as sparsely populated, and not needing as much supply to be stocked up. I think half as much supply want would be sufficient, but maybe I'm missing something.

[Ace]

I think you discovered a bug

[grimjaw]

Very funny.

[Pocus]

This is per level. Settlements are always level 1, so will want, as their ideal stockpile, 20 supplies and 6 ammos. Think of it as the abstraction of a small depot to supply a few regiments passing through. Perhaps it's a bit too high, but that's on the safe side and is most probably harmless in the end. Who cares if your settlements stockpile 20 supplies and not 10...

[grimjaw]

Pocus, that sounds very reasonable and I agree it's harmless. If it was 20 instead of 10, I probably wouldn't notice or care. But it ends up being 100+ units instead of 20. Just how greedy are these frontiersmen?

It just seemed so markedly different than what I saw cities accumulate.

[ohms_law]

With the general overabundance of supply, yea, it is harmless.