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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6391547" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>It takes about 5 acres per person with late medieval farming to sustain 1 person at Mid European level latitudes (France, southern Germany, northern italy, England, the low countries).</p><p></p><p>Which means that you should have no more than 128 people per square mile on typical farmland. Peak yield could be double or even quadruple that, but it's not likely sustained. Also - an acre is about 208x208 feet (actually, 43560 square feet)</p><p></p><p>By People, that includes most of the intelligent races of Medium Size. Smalls count half. Large count at least double.</p><p></p><p>A typical 8 mile hex is just over 55.4 square miles, for a maximum of about 7100 people... but is should be no more than 75% farmland in a city's hex, and 50% for lesser farmlands</p><p></p><p>Also note that most people won't walk more than 4 miles from residence to farms... so the outlying areas of that hex includes a bunch of hamlets for the farmers. (keep in mind: a farmer could work about 15 to 20 acres at once; with a wife and child helping help, possibly up to 30 acres or even 40 acres per family of 5...</p><p></p><p>And of course, woodlands support only about 1/10 that many people, if even that. But a man can hunt a hundred acres easily.</p><p></p><p>Pasturelands are about 1/10 the support, but a man can work about 10x as much land as a herdsman...</p><p></p><p>Hexagon area is roughly 0.866025*({(center to center distance)/2}^2)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 6391547, member: 6779310"] It takes about 5 acres per person with late medieval farming to sustain 1 person at Mid European level latitudes (France, southern Germany, northern italy, England, the low countries). Which means that you should have no more than 128 people per square mile on typical farmland. Peak yield could be double or even quadruple that, but it's not likely sustained. Also - an acre is about 208x208 feet (actually, 43560 square feet) By People, that includes most of the intelligent races of Medium Size. Smalls count half. Large count at least double. A typical 8 mile hex is just over 55.4 square miles, for a maximum of about 7100 people... but is should be no more than 75% farmland in a city's hex, and 50% for lesser farmlands Also note that most people won't walk more than 4 miles from residence to farms... so the outlying areas of that hex includes a bunch of hamlets for the farmers. (keep in mind: a farmer could work about 15 to 20 acres at once; with a wife and child helping help, possibly up to 30 acres or even 40 acres per family of 5... And of course, woodlands support only about 1/10 that many people, if even that. But a man can hunt a hundred acres easily. Pasturelands are about 1/10 the support, but a man can work about 10x as much land as a herdsman... Hexagon area is roughly 0.866025*({(center to center distance)/2}^2) [/QUOTE]
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