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Aranfan said:
The calender is in the Map post. The inverval is how long between each roll that I call for. That's why they take more than one month. Each roll takes a month.
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Ah, sorry about asking that then.

We haven't been doing much besides our work on our printing business then though... I mean I get that setting up and growing a business takes time but we probably should be able to do more stuff at the same time than we have been.

fictionfan said:
3 should be enough.
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I think that competence 3 is including us. As such it'll probably go lower if we ever leave or our assistants leave trying to set up on their own businesses. Though I agree it'll do for now most likely.
 
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Perspective Publishing Turn 4
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    • Resplendent Wood, RY 758

    Perspective Publishing:

    Available capital: 4

    Options:

    Act Upon the World, Insufficient Influence

    Grow Wealth, Insufficient Size

    Grow Size, In Progress
    May invest extra capital in this action.

    Grow Competence
    Train your apprentices in the black art of printing.
    Difficulty 4, Goal Number 6, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month

    Start up Newspaper
    Invest your profits and salary into starting that newspaper. Starting a newspaper from scratch will be much harder than the Printing Business.
    Difficulty 4, Goal Number: 20, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month

    Personal Action:

    What does Liberalism do in his spare time? Pick 1.

    [] Write a book on how to run a business and be a merchant
    [] Write a book about metallurgy, since it seems similar enough to Earth
    [] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
    [] Write a book on the social contract [Note: Will Make Enemies]
    [] Research the Greater Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
    [] Research the Lesser Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
    [] Construct a mechanical watch, just for fun
    [] Write in
     
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    • I wish that we had more capital to start the newspaper with. Any personal action we could take to get more dice for that?
     
    [x] Learn everything you can about agriculture in Creation (lore? craft?). See if you can apply your knowledge from Earth to make it better.

    ...followed by (some future turn)...

    [] Write a book about agriculture and distribute it.
    ...and...
    [] Invent labor-saving devices meant to be used in agriculture.

    This, in combination with the first factories, will result in massive population growth in general, and in particular in urban centers, which is an extremely important step if we want to fundamentally change the structure of society.

    Agriculture and population growth is the part that's going to take the longest, which is why we should get started with it early.
     
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    Driven by Apathy said:
    [x] Learn everything you can about agriculture in Creation (lore? craft?). See if you can apply your knowledge from Earth to make it better.

    ...followed by (some future turn)...

    [] Write a book about agriculture and distribute it.
    ...and...
    [] Invent labor-saving devices meant to be used in agriculture.

    This, in combination with the first factories, will result in massive population growth in general, and in particular in urban centers, which is an extremely important step if we want to fundamentally change the structure of society.

    Agriculture and population growth is the part that's going to take the longest, which is why we should get started with it early.
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    how does this help us grow our capital or influence? how do you plan to distribute that tech, let alone prove its worth?

    this is a long term project, one that should almost definitely come after steel production
     
    Aranfan said:
    Grow Competence
    Train your apprentices in the black art of printing.
    Difficulty 4, Goal Number 6, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month
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    We can do this and having more capable people is hardly bad... But we wouldn't be able to use the capital for a while probably and it probably isn't really critical.

    Start up Newspaper
    Invest your profits and salary into starting that newspaper. Starting a newspaper from scratch will be much harder than the Printing Business.
    Difficulty 4, Goal Number: 20, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month
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    Could do with some extra capital since this one will take a long time to complete. I'd also like to up some skills we could use for this first.

    Personal Action:
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    What does Liberalism do in his spare time? Pick 1.

    [] Write a book on how to run a business and be a merchant
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    Could get us some respect from the other merchants and it would give us something else to print and sell. Not directly useful but could support something in thee future...

    [] Write a book about metallurgy, since it seems similar enough to Earth
    [] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
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    Options to help tech up the locals. The book would likely have more widespread impact and would be something we could print to sell. We probably do still lack info on local metals though, I don't think we've run into any magical metals yet except maybe jade on the db's. Smith might give us a local contact that could be good to have in the future.

    [] Write a book on the social contract [Note: Will Make Enemies]
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    I don't think we are ready for the trouble this will land us in.

    [] Research the Greater Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
    [] Research the Lesser Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
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    Research would be good... But IMO this can wait until we start the newspaper.

    [] Construct a mechanical watch, just for fun
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    Well fun is fun I guess... Not really particularly helpful though.

    [] Write in
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    Well, what we are really lacking for progress right now is probably XP. There are a couple of charms that might speed things up for us. We might be able to look for some trouble and see if we can do some good around here.
     
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    [x]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
    -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
    -[x]spend a will for an automatic success.

    [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
    -[x]Stunt: he should be a valuable partner for introducing the Bessemer Process. He has been here longer and is more established. Maybe we can give him some investment advise as well.
     
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    [x]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
    -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
    -[x]spend a will for an automatic success.

    [X] Research the Lesser Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
    -Stunt: By having a greater understanding of the Lesser Chamber of the Deliberative not only would information for the newspaper be more easily acquired it would also show what would be needed to introduce Liberalism as a social movement.
     
    [x]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
    -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
    -[x]spend a will for an automatic success.

    [X] Research the Lesser Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
    -Stunt: By having a greater understanding of the Lesser Chamber of the Deliberative not only would information for the newspaper be more easily acquired it would also show what would be needed to introduce Liberalism as a social movement.
     
    [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him

    Training people to do some of the things we would otherwise have to do ourselves is a force multiplier. Sooner or later we'll want intricate bits of machinery made, and turning this guy (maybe he should have a name) into a watchmaker/mechanical expert will help.
     
    [X] Printing Grow Size
    -[X] Focus on completing this first with the assets available (4 capital)

    Make sure we finish this so we can focus on our next project.

    [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
    -[X] Make friends and see what you can learn here yourself too.
     
    [X]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
    -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.

    [X] Research the Lesser Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
    -Stunt: By having a greater understanding of the Lesser Chamber of the Deliberative not only would information for the newspaper be more easily acquired it would also show what would be needed to introduce Liberalism as a social movement.
     
    [X]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
    -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
    [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
     
    Voting remains open.
    Adhoc vote count started by Aranfan on Nov 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM, finished with 619 posts and 8 votes.
    • [x]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
      -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
      -[x]spend a will for an automatic success.
      [X] Research the Lesser Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
      [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
      [x]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
      -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
      [x] Learn everything you can about agriculture in Creation (lore? craft?). See if you can apply your knowledge from Earth to make it better.
      [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
      -[x]Stunt: he should be a valuable partner for introducing the Bessemer Process. He has been here longer and is more established. Maybe we can give him some investment advise as well.
      [X] Printing Grow Size
      -[X] Focus on completing this first with the assets available (4 capital)
      [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
      -[X] Make friends and see what you can learn here yourself too.
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    I wish that we could get higher linguistics and Fiery Rhetoric before starting the newspaper, but it seems clear that we are not going to get XP until we start the newspaper.

    Besides we want spin the wheels first.
     
    [x]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
    -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
    -[x]Stunt: Also use your jet engines to collect public information from farther away.
    -[x]spend a will for an automatic success.

    [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
    -[x]Stunt: he should be a valuable partner for introducing the Bessemer Process. He has been here longer and is more established. Maybe we can give him some investment advise as well.
    -[x]Have a deeper understanding of the mundane laws of creation then most.
     
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    [x]Start up Newspaper (capital 4)
    -[x]stunt: At first the newspaper would focus on commonly known and public information. What had been voted on in the Greater and Lesser Chambers, public proclamations and advertising. Can't forget advertising.
    -[x]spend a will for an automatic success.

    [X] Train the Smith who asked you to train him
    -[x]Stunt: he should be a valuable partner for introducing the Bessemer Process. He has been here longer and is more established. Maybe we can give him some investment advise as well.
     
    @Aranfan : Can Fiery Rhetoric stack with Bureaucracy Excellency. Like say if CPA trys to hire people for his business. Using his intimacies of Greed and Pursuit of Profit.
     
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