Overview
This metric evaluates a settlement’s economic vitality and social condition. Trade Value is recorded as a list of attributes, each rated on a scale from (0/5) to (5/5) with a unique identifier and emoji.
1. 🩸 Circulation (Logistics)
The physical flow of goods and people. Measures the state of roads and the frequency of caravans.
- (0/5) 💀 Dead: Routes are severed. Total isolation or absolute blockade.
- (1/5) 💧 Leaking: Rare, desperate caravans. Extreme risk of banditry and loss.
- (2/5) ⛓️ Stagnant: Sluggish movement. Constant delays, heavy tolls, and decaying infrastructure.
- ⚙️ Pumping (3/5): Stable rhythm. Regular traffic; the economic machine is functional.
- 🩸 Arterial (4/5): Vital lifeline. A continuous, non-stop flow of resources and wealth.
- 🛑 Congested (5/5): Overloaded. Gridlock at the gates; goods rot in queues due to sheer volume
2. 🍞 Provision (Food)
The availability of calories. From mass starvation to obscene excess.
- 🦴 Famine (0/5): Widespread starvation. Death is a daily occurrence in every household.
- 🦗 Scarcity (1/5): Acute shortage. People survive on vermin, sawdust, and leather scraps.
- 🍞 Scant (2/5): Minimal rations. Just enough to keep the workforce from full-scale rioting.
- 🌽 Sufficient (3/5): Plenty. Stable supply; granaries are filled and the populace is fed.
- 🥩 Surplus (4/5): Proficient. The city hoards meat and grain, often exporting to others.
- 🥧 Gorged (5/5): Wasteful. Obscene gluttony among the elite while food rots in the sun.
3. ⚙️ Toil (Industry)
Production capacity. Measures how much human sweat and blood is converted into iron.
- (0/5) 🧱 Ruined: The forges are cold and workshops are ash. Tools have been looted or melted.
- (1/5) 🔨 Scraping: Primitive salvaging. Patching up old relics and working with scrap.
- ⛏️ Grind (2/5): Exhausting labor. Low-quality output at a high human cost and wear.
- 🔩 Heavy (3/5): Powerful manufacturing. The city hums with the constant strike of hammers.
- ⚙️ Totalitarian (4/5): The Machine. The entire city functions as a single, disciplined factory.
- 🏭 Leviathan (5/5): Peak Industry. A massive industrial complex that devours all regional resources.
4. 💎 Affluence (Goods & Luxury)
Availability of material comforts. From mud floors to gilded halls.
- (0/5) 🌑 Bare: Absolute poverty. Life in the dirt with no hope for anything but survival.
- (1/5) 🏺 Sparse: Meager existence. Only the most basic, crude tools are available for purchase.
- ⚖️ Modest (2/5): Functional. Basic comforts and common goods are reachable for the majority.
- 🪙 Flourishing (3/5): Vibrant. Foreign commodities and quality craftsmanship appear in the markets.
- 💎 Opulent (4/5): Lavish. Rare materials and fine arts are a common sight in the central districts.
- (5/5) 👑 Resplendent: Absolute Wealth. Blinding prosperity that masks the grim reality outside.
5. 🎭 Depravity (Vice & Crime)
The social cost of the city. Levels of corruption, crime, and moral decay.
- 🕯️ Ascetic (0/5): Puritanical. Harsh order or exhaustion; no room for vice or pleasure.
- 🗡️ Disciplined (1/5): Strict Law. Crimes are rare and punished with extreme, visible prejudice.
- 🎲 Pragmatic (2/5): Calculated. Small vices are tolerated to keep the peace and vent stress.
- 🍷 Vice-ridden (3/5): Corrupt. Criminal elements are woven into the city’s daily life; streets are unsafe.
- 🎭 Degenerate (4/5): Moral Collapse. Law is a suggestion, and cruelty has become a pastime.
- (5/5) ⚰️ Putrid: Total Decay. Human life has zero value. A playground for the most vile impulses.