[Coco] that's just too evil!

[Willard Goosey]

The DEC Programming Language manual from 1970 that describes FOCAL has
the *original* form of the game Hamurabi, later translated to BASIC and
published by Ahl, the concept of which has lived on in
resource-management games like Civ.

The original is called "King of Sumeria" and is IMPOSSIBLY harsh!!!!

Each simulated person eats 20 bushels of grain per year or it starves.
A sim can plant 1 acre of land, which uses 1 bushel of grain.
An acre of land produces, at best (that I've seen) 5 bushels of grain.

The result?  The population of your city goes:

----\
    |
    |
    |
    |
<phumpht!>

I'll look over the source again, maybe there's still typos, but dam!

BTW sumer.foc will be in the next release of focal09, because, hey,
sample code!

"Oh look my city has 1 person left, I guess that's me!"
Willard
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