First of all, this is not my idea. The flash game Microlife featured that idea. I suggest you check it out. It is a good flash game and the way that the in-game population grows in explained in "how to play".
I just thought that Dwarfs !? could do some thing like that but slightly different. This could be used an another game mode or something for Dwarfs !? 2 or an expansion.
The basic idea is that every dwarf begins its journey from birth to the grave when a dwarfen female gives birth a child. After a few real-life minuets the child chances into a digger or a female. The digger goes on with his digging but the female starts having children and repeats the cycle. Some time later the dwarf dies.
One can build many things from this. The warriors would maybe be recruited and trained from the digger population for one.
One could insure that the females are always a minority by giving each child f.e. 3/4 chance of growing up to a digger and a 1/4 chance of growing up to a dwarfen female (Tolkien did this in his book/lore, but there the chances were 2/3 for males vs 1/3 for females).
A female could "marry" a dwarf, a digger or a warrior, and chance him to a married dwarf. He would just do the things they did before. But maybe stay at home a bit more ?
A female dwarf could maybe have on average 4-12 children (4 childern are required to keep the popluation steady, since only 1/4 of them are female).
I just thought that Dwarfs !? could do some thing like that but slightly different. This could be used an another game mode or something for Dwarfs !? 2 or an expansion.
The basic idea is that every dwarf begins its journey from birth to the grave when a dwarfen female gives birth a child. After a few real-life minuets the child chances into a digger or a female. The digger goes on with his digging but the female starts having children and repeats the cycle. Some time later the dwarf dies.
One can build many things from this. The warriors would maybe be recruited and trained from the digger population for one.
One could insure that the females are always a minority by giving each child f.e. 3/4 chance of growing up to a digger and a 1/4 chance of growing up to a dwarfen female (Tolkien did this in his book/lore, but there the chances were 2/3 for males vs 1/3 for females).
A female could "marry" a dwarf, a digger or a warrior, and chance him to a married dwarf. He would just do the things they did before. But maybe stay at home a bit more ?
A female dwarf could maybe have on average 4-12 children (4 childern are required to keep the popluation steady, since only 1/4 of them are female).