Civilization Kings: Tales of the English Royalty

[Jehoshua]

I'm sure she would have no problem being betrothed to a prince. (ooc: currently four to betrothe away to various entitites)

 

[Alex Dog]

Just started reading this, but I had a question about the premise...

Age

Age is measured in turnsets. One turnset is a baby, second is child, third teenager, four young adult, five middle-aged adult, six late adult, and seven and beyond is elder.

Is this based on Shakespeare's As You Like It soliloquy?

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, {1}
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel {2}
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, {3}
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, {4}
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, {5}
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, {6}
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, {uh-oh, I hope not!}
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, {7}
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

You gotta admit, it matches up pretty good.

 

[Sonereal]

Sadly, no. It was based on the Sims-line of progression, though with a split adult hood for mechanics reason.

 

[Sonereal]

3 AS​

MacFarlane's expedition north has yielded massive wealth to possibly flood the economy. However, underneath these riches comes the boisterous Scottish tribes of the north. Contact with these tribes have been little so far...

Also, everyone aged up. Children can now do things.

Screenshots following.

Spoiler :

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Meanwhile, guys, I updated quite a number of the rules to make things more bearable for both of us for the next update. Some of things that should be noted is.

1.) Paying another character for their job on a council, paying your warriors, etc. are NOT automatic processes. Please keep up with your finances, for I do not track deals like that.

2.) The Steward Job has been revamped. Instead of it deciding which percentage of the total income generated by your province you get, it determines the chance of a peasant revolt for performing the "Collect Taxes" job, which can now be done like regular actions. This means that, if you're exceptionally greedy, you can collect taxes up to EIGHT times (lords can do it four times, and their stewards can do it four times, if they both use all four of their actions). Doing this can result in !!fun!!.

3.) The other council jobs have been updated as well. Learn them, know them, love them.

4.) Business ventures now exist. Check that out, as well as the combat section.

5.) The retinue system has been updated as well. Holdings now generate "recruits", which can, with a template, be used to create units for you. How much you pay them and how well high a person's "martial" ability when they do the Marshal Action determines their ability. You can create new templates, which includes what weapons and armor is used, as new weapons and armor is made.

6.) The Business Ventures implements the ideas players have already given me. Businesses, when you action them, produce goods from goods that can be sold, used, and traded for, all with effects. STEWARD affects the quality of goods/services produced, which increases worth. You can hire an Overseer to oversee the business.

7.) Probably things I missed. Those are the major ones. Combat is less lulzy and less likely to result in immediate death!
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Finally, I'm contemplating getting rid of the second post and just posting a link to GoogleDocs.

 

[Daedwartin]

I collect taxes once, and then Try for baby three times

 

[Sonereal]

I collect taxes once, and then Try for baby three times

"Taxes? This is bull!" Eight peasants step up to revolt against the taxes. You have a retinue of three warriors and Ser Mathers, armed all with wooden clubs.

Mathers immediately kills one of the rebels. On the Queen's side, the one casualty is a knocked out warrior with a broken left arm.

The peasant rebels suffered the most. One rebel was killed outright from a crushed skull. Two of the captured tax revolters suffered only minor to major bruising. Two more have broken bones, one a broken left arm and the only a broken left leg.

Three of the captured suffer from major internal damages and will not live much longer.

On the bright side, you collected 3 Wealth!

Try for baby three times

Son-Son-Girl. In that order.

 

[Jehoshua]

OOC QUERY

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Do we have a worker. Since checking back at the PM I sent you which contained the orders the construction queue was worker > warrior > etc etc...

 

[Robert Can't]

Is this based on Shakespeare's As You Like It soliloquy?

I thought the exact same thing!

Also the Stuart St. Andrews Orphanage of London requests once again for donations from the Nobility, especially now as we are looking to expand drastically in the next turn set to build Schools for Nobles and Orphans to provide religious, mathematical, scientific and vocational education.

 

[Ravus_Sol]

OOC: So we can issue taxes any number of times, but the risk of revolt raises each time? Ergo you must weigh cost-benifit and risk the revolt. Maybe Celts wife should be both my Steward AND his Steward?

I also think we should have a worker trying to make a farm as I recollect worker first being the pro choice for all the possible plans.

So retainers are now sprung from our lands instead of hired? And they are paid upkeep instead of bought outright?

IC:

"Why is the Queen taking up arms against her own people!? Why is she collecting taxes herself instead of hiring a Steward to do it for her, she is obviously not that adept at collecting money without ruffling feathers. One man is dead and three more will soon follow. How is this the image we wish to portray as Noblesse oblige? This is not a good start to the year.

Meanwhile I congratulate Baron MacFarlane on his good haul, if he needs any ideas on business ideas he has merely to ask.

I will also announce that Victoria Ravenloft is set to be wed to one of the royal princes, I will be sending her to be the Kings ward so that she may socialise with the royal children."

Action: Try for a baby! (Hope for another set of twins!)

 

[filli_noctus]

Lord de Brailsford announces that the County of Worcester will be holding a Grand Tourney.
The tourney shall consist of contests of strength and tactics (martial), debate (diplomacy) and task management (stewardship).
The victor of these contests will, conditional to swearing an oath of fealty, be awarded 3g each, a barony in Worcester (one food) and a seat on my council.
Required conditions in the oath of fealty are as follows:
That at least one action per turn shall be dedicated to council business
That the title of baron is linked to the council position and should the baron be unwilling or incapable of performing those duties the lands and title may be revoked
Further to the previous point the baron is to ensure his heir is educated sufficiently to carry out his duties
The baron is required to request permission from the count of Worcester before accepting a similar position on the council of another lord, with the exception of the king

In addition four warriors will be recruited to the count's personal retinue from those who demonstrate great skill at arms.

 

[Daedwartin]

The Queen announces the beginning of a project to help improve the lives and incomes of the peasants, as she has determined they were upset because they believed I was taking more income than they could afford to lose. The primary reason for beleiving they would have too little income was they believe a bad harvest would come soon. In light of this, the queen wishes to create a Duchy wide emergency grainary system to help deal with bad harvests, a place to sell the excess food that was not bought, and deal with starvation.
Normady Emergency Grain Store: the queen donates 4 gold to starting it. We encourage norman nobles to help set it up.

 

[arya126]

OOC: This sounds more or less like a Granary. If this is to be allowed, how much effect does in game tech affect our actions in CK?

 

[Daedwartin]

OOC: This sounds more or less like a Granary. If this is to be allowed, how much effect does in game tech affect our actions in CK?

OOC: we have agriculture. Perhaps it could say if we spend enough of our gold, a free grainary in game is built.

 

[Mosher]

All the grain would go bad as we would have no place to store it

 

[arya126]

I hereby announce that Baron Carver of Flanders shall be accepting my second son, Eivard Rørek Brand Thalia, as a ward for the time being so that my son can learn from under such a skillful Lord of this country. To cover expenses I will be paying Baron Carver 1 gold, as well as donating 2 gold to his wife's orphanage as a token of my immense gratitude. 1 Warrior from my retinue will accompany him to Flanders so as to ensure his security against any plots meant to hurt me because of my political affairs.

 

[Ravus_Sol]

As my, special advisor, is lacking in diplomacy may i use my own diplomacy skill and a action to find him a wife?

 

[arya126]

As my, special advisor, is lacking in diplomacy may i use my own diplomacy skill and a action to find him a wife?

I believe so. Son has mentioned to me several times that for vassals and courtiers with low diplo their Lords are responsible for marrying them off to somebody.

 

[Sonereal]

Do we have a worker. Since checking back at the PM I sent you which contained the orders the construction queue was worker > warrior > etc etc...

I must've missed that screenshot, but yes. There's a worker currently improving the wheat tile.

OOC: So we can issue taxes any number of times, but the risk of revolt raises each time? Ergo you must weigh cost-benifit and risk the revolt. Maybe Celts wife should be both my Steward AND his Steward?

It doesn't raise each time. There is a static chance of it happening each time. So, (and this isn't the base number at all), if you have a 60% chance of revolt with your stewardship level, and you do it four times, there is a 60% chance each time.

Though, I would do all the rolls and depending on the number of revolt triggers, the number of peasant rebels are determined.

OOC: This sounds more or less like a Granary. If this is to be allowed, how much effect does in game tech affect our actions in CK?

Little.

OOC: we have agriculture. Perhaps it could say if we spend enough of our gold, a free grainary in game is built.

Nope.

I believe so. Son has mentioned to me several times that for vassals and courtiers with low diplo their Lords are responsible for marrying them off to somebody.

Yes.

OOC: I have aboot 11 PMs to sort through. I didn't check the thread yesterday, and her I thought someone had started a rebellion or something.

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

1st Action: Marshall Action. Train the King's men.

2nd Action: Try for baby.

3rd Action: Try for baby.

 

[Ravus_Sol]

I take it Sonereal is still working through the back log of PMs and actions?