So you are saying in a culture of communal caring tree huggers that not one person tried to help a obviously abused and underfed woman?
Not even when working in a government facility supervised by shamans? Remember all smelting and metal working center have shamans attached to it for health reasons.
We created a scenario where by legally calling attention to help her we're also fucking her over.
Part of the tax crisis was multiple resultant catch 22s.
It just seems like the most reliable way to have the provinces take forest actions right now...especially since I'd rather stay on megaproject policy.
So, Grand Docks next turn at normal pace to give the Golden Age time to begin, then kick the Dam on the following turn?
Or do we just start the Dam next turn without kicking, expecting refugees to drop Stability in time for the Dam bonus to fix it? Backup option, I think AN said it would probably become prestige. And we would then be finishing the Dam during the Golden Age.
Or do we start the Dam and Games simultaneously, thus making both take long enough that we can reasonably expect to have time for refugee waves? Granted, that would delay influence and integrations, but OTOH, the Hawks - and any wild nomads! - will absolutely love the games, and the Dam will connect us much better to the Txolla.
The Dam might have something for a Heroic Mystic to consider, since it's land management/ecological engineering on a large scale, and theres a few possible breakthroughs on ecology, agriculture, hydropower, engineering and material technologies behind it.
@Academia Nut what option will fix the half exile problem?
Depends strongly on what part of the problem you're referring to I believe.
If it's to the demand for Half Exile jobs, then the only answer is improved tools and mechanization so that they no longer need so many dudes.
If it's to the half exile abuse problem in the fringes where they are used like slaves, Gods, Community Health and Balance of Interests would probably stopper it for their own reasons.
The Ymaryn do everything in bursts it seems, it was only four updates ago that we transitioned from oligarchic ancient kingdom and now we are going for Classical Elective Monarchy.
We've had all the parts present for a long time already.
Just got distracted.
What do people think the chances of gaining steel during this golden age are?
We have a legacy that allows it.
Someone posted a supersaiyin pic during baby boom. Now our baby boom has doubled.
Super-saiyin 2?
Considering we are passively generating the entire economies of maybe three other states right now...yeah.
It won't last forever, but it's spectacular.
Isn't the problem less acquiring steel and more mass producing it? I mean for all that steel is an amazing metal for both weapons and tools it is also incredibly expensive to manufacture at our tech level.
Steel isn't that difficult to produce with current tools, at least relative to iron. It's a conceptual leap, but the hard part is figuring out the process.
The real problem was producing enough iron, but now that we have the hammer mill bloomery we've broken through that too.
Build an Arsenal annex, + well developed printing press. Have the Blackbirds keep track of who has the equipment to build or acquire their own presses - the Ymaryn don't actually have a view of property rights that'd make restricting those particular tools problematic.
We're not there yet, but we're not that far from it, either.
Especially when we're unquestionably the local leader in alchemy, and thus can probably make inks no one else can.
It is probably near, but not something we're at yet. While we may have the science for it, getting people to accept fiat currency is difficult, and constitutes a technology in itself.
We'd be going from: Barter(goods for goods) -> Standard barter(goods for common valuable good) -> Early currency(good for premeasured quantity of common valuable good) -> Currency(good for marked symbolic quantity of common valuable good) -> Fiat Currency(good for symbolic value)
We don't even have cheques yet.
Community Health will probably open up more reasons to shun people for being different and thus damaging to the community. No thanks.
It shouldn't due to Cosmopolitan Acceptance.
Being different is not a shunning quality here.
The big problem with community health down the line is probably slowing down industrialization and other developments which causes harm to parts of the community, and a greater backlash against industrial, research and mining incidents...which is good in moderation, but we also know that whatever we choose will NOT be moderate.
