I started thinking about this when I was having a hard time placing price tags at some of my modded items. I think money is strange right now. Play the game a few times and you sure will find an easy way to be swimming in gold. At late game, if the player wants, he will buy anything at any price. H…

[image] tim1: have the building insta-build by some hired contractors Cool that hired contractors do the work, but how will you explain away the visual of the instabuilding process, immersion-wise. If hired contractors do the work, the player still expects that to take time, or that you need …

Show Hearthling contractors building it but it’s faster. The trade off is that your Hearthlings aren’t tied up building and can continue on with other tasks.

Love the idea of mercenaries. I feel like way too much of my population gets tied up in military. Wish I could augment my military with some mercs. Not really a fan of having to pay ‘taxes’ to build. Aren’t I the highest authority in this region? Whom am I paying and why? Exotic goods always i…

Something I’ve brought up before as a potential function of the game is advance economics. Your settlement starts as a small gathering of shacks housing a small, intimate community. As the town grows and gains recognition and the population grows, the needs of the people should get more complex. By …

[image] RallyPoint: Not really a fan of having to pay ‘taxes’ to build. Aren’t I the highest authority in this region? Whom am I paying and why? Who gives you the town quest?.. :slight_smile:

@Fornjotr , think that, if you have to pay taxes to the Queen you should be also entitled to ask taxes from your hearthlings, and from the traders… (even the goblins that go through “your” land :smiley: ) In the end a “tax mechanic” would work in your favor and you would end up with even more money a…

[image] RallyPoint: Not really a fan of having to pay ‘taxes’ to build. Aren’t I the highest authority in this region? Whom am I paying and why? We have some lore that there used to be a larger kingdom that fell, as well as we have the donation to the church for Ascendancy. Maybe we can hav…

[image] SirAstrix: So their work is free, until your town reaches teir 3, then they want to be payed? I like your idea, but I’m curious where the line is that this “feature” would be activated at. I’d say tie it to the township quests. So far they only have the first tier of quests establishe…

I think the best system would be some sort of taxation, with the tax value based on net worth per Ling (tax increases with net worth and decreases with number of Lings). The question is what to do if the player fails to pay. Negative happiness modifier doesn’t seem enough. The Anno series makes the…

I think late-game uses for gold are a fantastic idea, and something the game sorely needs. I’d prefer it to be something positive the player can spend on rather than an obligation like taxes, though. Broadly, traders need a lot of expansion and re-balancing, so I hope that they can provide a big pa…

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I read that with the new ACE 0.9.3 update that you can now smelt coins into gold ingots and gold ingots back into coins, check it out!

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