Of the three (provinces, periphery states and the Lowland Minors), how much administrative strain do they cause, from most strain to least strain, and why?
Provinces cause the most, subordinates only some. It's mostly a problem of geometrically rising complexity, something which the People don't even have the math to describe. They just know that whenever they add in a new full province the amount of work needed grows by a value much larger than what they would expect from a linear system.
Do we have events that regularly pay honor to those died in service to The People?
Does people (kings/officials) visit Warriors' rest to pay respect to the dead?
Do we have wagon trains that travel along a route where people can hop on, like bus service?
Yes to all.
-Admin Chief: What's the travel time from the Palace sites to the province capitals? Is it making the administration difficult?
It's more the
number of provinces and the relationships between them all that is causing problems than the distance.
what kind of information tech do we have? What do we have to do to get more?
Parchment, clay, chalk and slate, and memory. Build more libraries and do more studies if you want to eventually improve things further.
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What are the travel times from the provincial capitals to/from Valleyhome?
Is the delay in messaging between Redshore and Valleyhome a major factor in our administrative woes?
For critical information they can be upwards of a month of boat and horse travel, but most are within a week. On more sedate trips a full season is usually used.
Messaging delays are a problem, but they tend to be more about how they add further complexity to the arrangement of events.
Admin Chief: What are the immediate advantages and disadvantages of each Palace site? Does Redshore really have nothing to contribute right now?
Admin Chief: What are the long term advantages and disadvantages of each Palace site? Does Valleyhome have difficulty scaling up in the 300 year(10 main turn) span?
Valleyhome - Advantages: Large urban population, many of whom are already involved in administration, the pre-existing library and old traditions make it exceptionally well suited to simply being upgraded, closest to the lowlands problems, going forward likely to be even more at the population centre of the People as more of the lowlands become involved with the People
Disadvantages: Currently the furthest geographically from furthest point within current territory
Sacred Forest - Advantages: Also a large urban population, many well educated as priests, already a major hub for the People going on pilgrimage so well connected via trails and river/canal access
Disadvantages: The priests will gain tremendous power from the prestige, and some do not like that, transit capacities are already basically maxed out
Redshore - Advantages: Exceptional connectivity to the rest of the People, already a major trade hub
Disadvantages: Smaller population, far fewer highly educated people already present, furthest administratively from the lowlands, sewage handling requires an upgrade in the nearish future, will likely require a library and/or temple upgrade in the near future
would it be possible to assign specific projects to specific temples? Possibly after we have upgraded our central temple or once religious authority reaches a certain point? Or is this idea too far fetched?
Possibly. Doing more temples is likely to open up new actions.
Could we expect an update today or nah
I will do a tally in two hours and see if I have more writing in me, but probably not.
