True and as I edited in the question for QM, we don't know if working on an invention requires payment each turn we're working on it or if we only need to ever invest wealth once.
I was intending to put up a properly formatted plan when voting opened. This was just a 'what do people think of this idea'.
Cost is paid out each AP invested, so taking Wonders of Soap twice will require two wealth and then taking it again next turn would require a third wealth spent as you use up the materials in your testing.
OK, inventing just became a lot more expensive than I thought it would.
Yeah, wherever we end up at the end of the coming turn will be our home for the next couple of years at least as we build up capital, knowledge and equipment.
I imagine making Flintlocks would require us to get a workshop first?
Your main roadblock there is more needing some better tools and reliable smiths to work with. You'd need a workshop for aeolipiles or gunpowder though.
Realize I forgot to respond to this: I don't think the Empire has lathes, it's possible the Dwarfs have them (though just as likely they just do it by hand out of spite). While factories are referenced as far as I can tell its framed in the same bizarre lopsided state most of their advanced tech is.
Well we could sell our workshop and maybe hire a ship to move our equipment to Erengrad once we have the money.
Or they're just that dammed good/stubborn that they can produce the same quality of work by hand that somebody would normally have to use a lathe for.
So would the 'better tools' we need require a workshop as part of the deal as some of the equipment is too heavy to simply haul around?
