Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Good read in Apple's "articles" section:

Tepper relates an anecdote from Tale I that neatly sums up this clash: “The Stranger had introduced a number of technologies that allowed for great efficiency gains but could be abused in ways that made all of Egypt suffer. Clear-cutting was a way to harvest massive amounts of wood at a time, but it killed the trees in question for one real-life week.

“The players invented a law that said if a tree is harvested three times normally in a 10-minute period, then it is marked as protected for the next week, and clear-cutting protected trees would be illegal. I thought this was an amazingly creative solution to the problem.�