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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1653401" data-attributes="member: 6533">That's an intriguing last point Don, and I'd be interested in seeing your argument parsed out.Wouldn't the level of diversification and consumption depend more on the percentage of people necessary to work the ground to feed the population as a whole than on the true size of the population and the thickness with which it lay to the ground?In terms of consumption, well, have we any statistics on raw tonnage?&nbsp; There does seem to be a pretty high level of individual consumption at the upper levels and in the cities, but I don't know that was any less true during the far less populated portions of the middle ages.Though I have often thought that dwarves and gnomes must be absolute fetishists/hoarders to do the amount of efficient mining that they do and not run into huge problems of transportation and oversupply.Though on another note you might then envision dragon raids as an important redistribution mechanic. On a totally tangential note, price controls, eh?&nbsp; There's an argument to be made either way there for the real period.&nbsp; But Eberron's financial systems seem sophisticated enough, and basic supplies pentiful enough, so that I agree that it seems a non-issue in the setting.When you have enough squirells that anyone can get locally produced fur at the local market price control is much less of an issue.&nbsp; And boy howdy, let me tell you, squirrel fur is the salt of the medieval economy.Price controls are yet another feature of the more populated than Eberron and totally unlike it later middle ages.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 1653401, member: 6533"] That's an intriguing last point Don, and I'd be interested in seeing your argument parsed out. Wouldn't the level of diversification and consumption depend more on the percentage of people necessary to work the ground to feed the population as a whole than on the true size of the population and the thickness with which it lay to the ground? In terms of consumption, well, have we any statistics on raw tonnage? There does seem to be a pretty high level of individual consumption at the upper levels and in the cities, but I don't know that was any less true during the far less populated portions of the middle ages. Though I have often thought that dwarves and gnomes must be absolute fetishists/hoarders to do the amount of efficient mining that they do and not run into huge problems of transportation and oversupply. Though on another note you might then envision dragon raids as an important redistribution mechanic. On a totally tangential note, price controls, eh? There's an argument to be made either way there for the real period. But Eberron's financial systems seem sophisticated enough, and basic supplies pentiful enough, so that I agree that it seems a non-issue in the setting. When you have enough squirells that anyone can get locally produced fur at the local market price control is much less of an issue. And boy howdy, let me tell you, squirrel fur is the salt of the medieval economy. Price controls are yet another feature of the more populated than Eberron and totally unlike it later middle ages. [/QUOTE]

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