Hey all, I decided to give an idea to expand the idea of a broken world of lost technology without going too far. This is not an immediate technology suggestion, but an idea for when farming comes out, a means of fueling it.

I think it'd be nice, for more industrial styled tribes, to be allowed to build and maintain a sort of salvaged generators made from more rare scavenged parts.

The purpose of electricity would be to power various facilities in the tribal area, which would first of all be electric lights, not like your basic lightbulbs in buildings, but large outward lights on stands that shine forward, like a sort of stationary spotlight. This gives an air of power to the tribe and helps them see enemies at their borders at night or shine light on important locations.

Now, let me just say, first of all, I do not think anything of a higher tech like this should be easy or hard to come by. I think it should take work. First of all, you've need to build it from parts, built from parts, built from scavenged pieces. Just more stuff to build. You need to scavenge some parts that would fit in a generate as well as basic scrap too. You then build the more finished parts which are ingredients in the larger parts, which then build the final generator. You need to get the feeling of a good bit of work being needing for this sort of thing so it feels gratifying. Having it just be a recipe requiring basic goods just makes it there.... that's no fun. Look at Fallen Earth, a lot of it isn't that great of a game (it's why we're here), but because you had to look for specifics to build the high tech, the better goods just felt like more of an accomplishment.

Secondly, the generator would have to be powered. This means adding in a still to create alcohol as a fuel source. Which also means, it will come after farming. You grow corn, process it into raw alcohol, and then fuel your generator. You turn it on and bam, you got yourself one fancy looking base! This would be something you'd be continuously maintaining and fueling, making it something you only turn on at times, only at night, or have the whole tribe working on.

Of course, giving out higher technology in this game should always include a non tech alternative for the more primitive tribes. A bondfire would be nice to give off more lighting, requiring sticks and such, which would take a bit to fuel it, but would be good for rituals and all that. I believe that there should be various forms of a low, medium, and higher tech alternative to various needs of tribes. To give a balance to living this game as you want, as a primitive, as a scavenging, and as an industrial tech tribe.