[Sec] More Blackbirds, [Sec] More Carrion Eaters,
D= Dammit provinces we needed that wealth! D= This just makes me more concerned with doing too many extensions...
Greenshore – [Main] Trade Mission – Trelli, [Main] Aqueduct (4/8)
Ok, so subordinates can definitely take extended projects, its not just the natural wonder allowing the ST to take the temple, good to know...
Lowland Minors – [Main] War Mission – Swamp Folk, [Main] New Trails
Oooh, our vassals are recognizing the importance of trails...
Well, bad things were happening in the lowlands, and only the Red Banner had managed to keep the situation from completely deteriorating. Unfortunately, when the king had sent the heir to look over the situation, it had turned sour with unpleasant quickness. Apparently the Thunder Horse had been willing to mark the Tocholli River as their eastern border for the time being and had even offered to potentially hire the services of the Red Banner for dealing with the Swamp Folk, who they were also fighting with, but the heir had put his foot in his mouth and apparently then tried his damnedest to chew it off. What could have been a potential settlement between the two groups to ease tensions had turned into the Thunder Horse deciding to go at it further just because of how insulted they were.
...Fuck, we didn't need this either D= I take it this was a diplo critfail?
Ugh... a new heir would need to be elected after that incident, but the last election had already been a political knife fight, which was why they had ended up with a semi-incompetent compromise candidate.
Hmm...I wonder if this has anything to do with Rulwyna?
However, the council arguments over the design and location of the palace were already quite intense.
...I have the strangest feeling this is targeted at us and however many pages of arguments there have been since you listed out the extensions
For placement, the big argument was where to put the new palace. While Valleyhome was obvious, the other two candidates were Sacred Forest and Redshore. Given the pilgrimages of shamans and commoners to the temple in Sacred Forest, there were many who felt that it was already the heart of the People, and it had the connections to also serve as a significant center of government. Redshore, while not quite as grand or urban as the larger Valleyhome or Sacred Forest, had always been a major center of trade and industry, and given its access to the sea was probably the easiest for the majority of provinces to get delegates to. Also, while its geography meant that getting proper amounts of water to allow it to really expand remained a tricky proposition, once an aqueduct was put in it would have the best and easiest drainage of them all. Of course, everyone had their own opinion on the politics of it all, and the argumentation could get pretty vicious at times.
Hmm...still a hard choice :/
Some of the plans that were being talked about by the architects and builders were quite ambitious, and that had many on the council worried about how they were going to pay for everything if some of the designs were implemented.
Of course, everyone had their own opinion on the politics of it all, and the argumentation could get pretty vicious at times.
Oh hey, more of our arguments getting referenced in the update
Second was extending out the shrine, making it into a proper temple to the gods, probably with Mathulmyn as the patron of the temple itself and Fythhagyna and Crow included somewhere in a prominent but not central role. Further proposals would extend it out further and increase the amount of religious authority of the palace, and thus the king. It would also increase the king's access to skilled advisors on spiritual matters.
Hmm...i can't tell if this would increase the influence of our priests on the king, or buffer against it by having a religious focal point for the King to control...
Third, and almost certainly included somewhere, was a library annex. While the smallest proposals just made it a general administrative storage area and reference library for the king and advisors, larger proposals expanded it out to be at least as large as the library already crammed into Valleyhome or as part of the temple in Sacred Valley, with a few proposals where the palace was more library than palace! Given all the writing the government generated, a library was probably a necessity, and the bigger the more important records could be kept on immediate hand for the king to have easy access to.
Ok, so we want at least one of these...
Fourth was the proposal for garden complexes. These were frequently courtyards, often extensions of the Great Hall, and they were there for the purposes of beauty, health, and spiritual strength. There would probably be a few small gardens in quiet spots no matter the design chosen, but these proposals were significant efforts. Many priests proposed that gardens be included in order to ensure that the palace remained connected to nature, and also to ensure an at-hand supply of important plants that could be grown there.
Yeah, this is not something we
need right away, not with our current issues.
Fifth were storehouses. The king's residence was already close to a number of central storehouses and granaries so it made sense, and there would of course be internal stores for the palace's consumption, but these proposals were for major areas to do nothing but store critical goods and administer their collection and distribution. These would certainly help with administration purposes, and help the city if it were ever cut off from food supplies by disaster or war.
Hmm...this sounds pretty useful though...
Choose annexes, up to 8. All can be repeated for extra effect, and there can be special effects from certain combinations. Each annex adds 1 additional action to the project. Not including at least one shrine annex will have political and religious implications
Damn, the shrine annex is included in the cost D=
Unless you crash past 0, Free Cities maintain their own health and thus the min Econ required is mostly ignored.
I'd meant the "keep under X econ slots" requirement, actually, not the "keep over Y econ"
...Because our provinces just spent 2 wealth, making the tax crisis way more urgent, and our heir critfailed our diplo check so we're still fighting a war, and adding 8 actions leaves us with 11-13 actions even
after the 2 we spent this turn? Which is, you know, 6 or so turns if we have to keep the provinces on offensive focus, and even if we switched to doing that ourselves and left the palace to the provinces, it would take at least 4 more turns.
Even if we don't add annexes we just plain don't have the econ for this shit, nor the wealth to survive the tax crisis that long, guys, and taking refugees just means we need to increase stability... it's not even that expensive to add these things later,
@Academia Nut confirmed it was just twice the cost...that is, 2 econ/2art/1 main, instead of 1 econ/1art/1 main. We can pimp out the palace later when we're not suffering...
@Academia Nut would two library annexes be enough to give us the extra refund? because if not, i personally want just:
[] Shrine
[] Library
[] Storehouse
And i'm not sure on the location yet...
