{"id":2441,"date":"2013-07-11T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2013-07-11T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:13:55","slug":"urbanization-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/07\/11\/urbanization-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbanization &#038; farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the &#8216;farmers&#8217; group in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy3\/\">democracy 3<\/a> is also meant to represent the entire rural community, I&#8217;m taking 2015 estimated urbanization stats from here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationmaster.com\/graph\/peo_urb_in_201-people-urbanization-in-2015http:\/\/\">http:\/\/www.nationmaster.com\/graph\/peo_urb_in_201-people-urbanization-in-2015<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USA 81.% urban so 19% &#8216;farmers&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0UK 90.8 so 9.2% farmers<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0France 78.4% urban so 21.6% farmers<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Germany 89.9% so 10.1% farmers<\/li>\n<li>Canada 81.9% so 18.1% farmers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To try and balance the various countries so they have a very roughly accurate percentage of farmers. That&#8217;s the first thing on today&#8217;s todo list of making countries vaguely accurately match their real world data :D<\/p>\n<p>I went to the develop conference in Brighton, by the south coast of the UK yesterday. Bumped into all kinds of cool people. Gave a talk about long term survival as an indie game dev. I hate public speaking, but people generally said it went ok, which is nice. I&#8217;ve also been working on adding the Democracy 3 achievements into steam ready for it&#8217;s eventual steam release. Oh yeah :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the &#8216;farmers&#8217; group in democracy 3 is also meant to represent the entire rural community, I&#8217;m taking 2015 estimated urbanization stats from here: http:\/\/www.nationmaster.com\/graph\/peo_urb_in_201-people-urbanization-in-2015 USA 81.% urban so 19% &#8216;farmers&#8217; \u00a0UK 90.8 so 9.2% farmers \u00a0France 78.4% urban so 21.6% farmers \u00a0Germany 89.9% so 10.1% farmers Canada 81.9% so 18.1% farmers To try and<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Urbanization &#038; farmers<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/07\/11\/urbanization-farmers\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}