A bare minimum palace is almost completely worthless.
How are they short sighted for wanting the closest and fastest route to the capital that benefits all of them? Redshore sits on a rivee each province, March periphery and colony can reach with comparable ease. It'll also make taking remainig empty Hahtyn land much eaiser and the HK sits on a river as well.
AN said it's probably better in extremis. And AN has also made mistakes when it comes to predicting the path we're going to try and tread. It's entirely possible through another Phygrif or #FuckTheNomads vote any purely hypothetical value in Redshore as our capital vanishes.
Err, the update outright says the "bare minimum palace" would be a major improvement in and of itself:
The annexes are important, but they're not the only benefit we're getting from the thing...and as others have said, the more expansive we make the thing, the longer it is until we get any of its benefits at all...
You know what your right, we haven't thought in the long term for a while now so why start now. We haven't done any of our extended projects or kept even our trails up to date so your right to think the thread won't dedicate the time to make Redshore a proper capital.
Doesn't look like it. Our actions now are deciding the scope of the project.
We've most certainly thought for the long term before. When we might break up and not get a long-term, though, is a really bad time to be ignoring short-run costs.
We need a palace before we can start the tax reform.
If we thought long term we would've built the Palace and kept our trails up to date and have temples all over our nations right now. Thinking long term includes more then just pushing for tech advances it involves reacting to problems before they become a wide spread crisis. Trails and general infrastructure isn't sexy in the face of water mills and alchemy but they are what keep Empires around.
We've most certainly thought for the long term before. When we might break up and not get a long-term, though, is a really bad time to be ignoring short-run costs.
Yeah, and since we didn't, we're forced to make more short term choices. It sucks, but we simply can't afford to build an aqueduct to Redshore at this time, and I for one don't want to find out what unpleasant effects of getting a true city through overcrowding rather than aqueducts are.
It's time we don't have and resources we can't really spare overly well. No need to start attacking the entire thread over shortsightedness when you aren't looking around at our major issues besetting us and the situation we are currently in, think about it, can we afford to spend time fixing Redshore after we build without aquaducts considering how time is of the essence? Can we afford the strain of another True City and even if we make Valleyhome a Free City can we afford to have a highly politicised, high population vipers nest in our central territories whilst we are going through an Admin crisis?
