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IDEA

2D Top-down simcity-stronghold crusader-like sandbox game

You have to build and maintain a town beneath the surface.

Materials:
	- Wood (building, fuel)
	- Stone (building)
	- Gold (currency)

	- Oil (fuel)

	- Wheat
		- Flour
		- Bread (food) (in the end more wood efficient than apples)
	- Apples (food)
	- Hops
		- Beer (alcoholic beverage)

Buildings:
	- Town hall [present at the start]
	- Forum, different purposes:
		- Worshipping the dictator
		- Worshipping the deity
		- Public debate
	- Quarry
	- Woodcutters: dangerous job, they have to go above the surface
	- House
	- Clinic: dangerous, have to go above surface
	- School: research can optionally be done above the surface, is dangerous
		- option for library
	- Farm: needs an awful lot of wood to keep the crops lit
		- Apples
		- Wheat
		- Hops
	- Brewery
	- Mill
	- Bakery
	- Pub
	- Police Station
		- Military Department: can go aboveground and perform tasks at a lower risk/cost, but less time efficient
	- Oil refinery

Stats:
	- Population Happiness
		- Below 70%, people start rioting
		- Riots become more severe as happiness goes down
	- Population oppression
		- Affects happiness
		- Disallowing the population alcohol for example, leads to a feeling of oppression
	- Population hunger
		- Affects happiness
	- Population employment
		- Affects happiness
		- Affects poverty
	- Population poverty
		- Affects happiness
		- Affects hunger
	- Population pub rate
		- Happiness affects pub rate: unhappy, higher pub rate
		- Pub rate affects happiness negatively, if and only if too high

Disasters:
	- Fires
	- Boulders falling down
	- People rioting against you
	- Burglaries
	- Murders