Salem

In the setting of the New World, I am missing one thing, without which the whole colonization effort would perhaps not even have succeeded:

Slaves.
I would say, introduce African slaves, but in present day world, that might offend people.
So I suggest adding just 'slaves'.

What do they do?
Slaves improve your farming efforts.
You need a slave, a metal pin, metal shackles with chain to install a slave on your farms.
The metal pin would be a building, used for determining the center of the slave's action radius. It can be placed via the building menu, and uses one iron bar.
The shackles with chain would have to be applied to a slave (rightclick shackles on slave), after which you can attach the chain with slave to the pole (rightclick shackles on pole).
The slave will then start work on increasing the yield / reducing the growth time of any fields within it's action radius. (Think of the beehives in H&H for mechanics)
Optionally, make slaves gain experience te longer they keep working, for increased benefits. (purity modifier?)

How do I get slaves?
- buy them in the capital. New NPC, slave trader. Sells slaves-on-a-chain. Very expensive.
- random rare spawn: natives. If natives are already planned for another purpose, make that 'runaway slave'. Those can be fought, and like turkeys, will KO instead of die. If you have shackles in your inventory, you can apply them to the KO'd native to capture him. If you don't, you can execute the KO'd slave in hopes of finding an inspirational (described below, under More...).
optional: - when you PvP kill a player, and have shackles in your inventory, you can capture the KO'd char, and it will turn into a slave with the dead player's name + Boy. The dead player can spawn a new character as usual, it is just for teasers.

More...
- When a claim with slaves is raided, they can be killed. They might fight back when you get too close though, so shooting them is best. They can drop an inspirational, "free spirit" when killed. Said inspirational would improve faith and wisdom, law and lore, and perennial philosophy.
- Slaves suffer from decay hits. WHen they've gotten too many hits, they will die. Slaves can be healed using the free spirit inspirational mentioned above.

if just "Seatribe" were making this game i'd almost say they'd implement it, but paradox being a fairly large game producer? yeah, not gonna happen. lol

or you could just use some fertilizer instead. ***** off.

i would certainly like to have a plantation full of slaves to improve my cotton production.

1 more method of acquiring slaves could be a slave coop...would be funny to put like 25 males in one..

I support this idea.

Chief PeePooKaKa
MM Tribe

sabinati wrote:or you could just use some fertilizer instead. ***** off.

I don't see the need to start cursing here.

There's two bad things about slavery:
- the fact that it existed
- the fact that up to today, a lot of people do their very best to pretend that it did not happen.

I see no reason why Paradox would not allow this in a game, this would put them in the camp of denial. Nothing wrong with being historically correct.

It's not only about being historically correct, but about encouraging it.

Although I see no point in this discussion. Slavery already exists in Salem - it's when people force others into performing some tasks at the threat of murder

Historical accuracy is not a very good argument in game design, and it's the only one in favour of implementing something so ugly in the game. And if we're going to take it as a serious argument, I'd rather see things like Black Death were 2/3 of the characters in the world just drop dead, no saving throw.

Im against the idea of having NPC slaves. Players however should be able to be enslaved. (They are to a certain point in game already.) An "enslaving" option after KO-ing someone could be fun, but as usual the room for abuse is huge. Would the player char be turned into a bot, or would he have the option to actually play as a slave?