Timeline for The flying state, estimating an "ideal" size
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| Jul 7, 2019 at 19:22 | vote | accept | Ash | ||
| Jul 2, 2018 at 11:48 | answer | added | Chromane | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 10:25 | comment | added | Ash | @Chromane "The state will be effectively coastal for the purposes of a fishing fleet but the numbers given in Mołot's answer don't change much" so yes fishing is possible but it doesn't actually change the answer to the question which is how many people does it take to run a small but complete feudal state. | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 10:23 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2018 at 5:29 | comment | added | Chromane | Is fishing a possibility? The numbers change dramatically if fishing / extracting resources from the sea is a possibility. I'm kinda liking the imagine of many small elevators handing off the bottom of the island | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 5:12 | history | edited | a4android | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed misplaced apostrophes; excised unnecessary & ill-used ellipses; polished a few bits of prose.
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| Jul 2, 2018 at 5:05 | comment | added | a4android | @user535733 Waste disposal over someone else's territory isn't a problem, The flying island is flying over an infinite sea. | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 17:23 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 16:47 | comment | added | Ash | @user535733 I'm asking how big it has to be so it doesn't have to trade for anything that isn't mined, since mining a floating rock gets to be a bad idea very quickly. The question clearly states that the land is well watered so yes freshwater is a given. | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 16:43 | comment | added | user535733 | This seems a lot like the classic small-colony-in-a-bottle question. Are you saying that the flying-state must trade for small-settlement basics like food, water, wood, leather, clay, fuel, etc? Is what they provide to others in trade worthwhile? While flying over the endless sea, is there a reliable source of freshwater? While over somebody else's territory, is there reliable (non-obnoxious) disposal for sewage and trash? | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 14:22 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2018 at 14:16 | history | asked | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |