Living Expenses:
This is still part of the Financial System
These are default expenses that cover house, food, clothing and basic needs needed to live. Increases as you have more children and family members, and when you live in richer areas. When you cannot pay for these, you loose your house, or your family begins to starve (and possibly die). These costs also decrease when you own a farm, work as a farmer and have benefits, or when you live at a city palace.
The following are the expenses you will always pay:
- Food: 3g per turn, per family member (including yourself)
- Without this, your risk starvation and death of family members. You may only last a session and five turns in-game before people start dying. (younger family members die first)
- When you cannot afford food, or have no where to buy it, you may hunt outside the city in unimproved tiles (movement). Your risk dangers in the wild against nature and wild animals. You may also steal (movement).
- House: This depends on which district you choose to live in. The following are the prices for each district:
- lower district: 0.5g
- poor district: 2g
- Middle District: 10g (or 8g to live very modestly)
- Rich District: 25g
- Downtown: 40g
- You can also live in a tile/acre you own outside the city:
- Rural poor: 0.25g
- Rural middle: 5g
- Rural rich: 20g
- Suburban poor: 1g
- Suburban middle: 7g
- Suburban rich: 25g
- The advantage of living in better, upper class districts is safety, and better reputation and popularity. Living in cities gives more of each then their rural or suburban counterparts. You can have a clear idea of which place is better by the prices.
- Living outside the city makes doing walks around a district more difficult, for you would have to travel to the city from your tile/acre. You would see less and be more isolated from events in the city.
- Clothing: You are a civilized man, you cant go around naked! You will have to spend 1g per family member, including you, to have clothes.
- Cant afford it? You can get old rags only people in poverty wear for .25g causing a negative impact on popularity and reputation.
Overall you could be spending as much as 56g or more on living expenses, or as little as 3.50g to live as a lowly peasant.
Languages
This is valid since the beginning of the game.
To be able to talk to foreign people, you have to know their language. Until then the only way of communication is through gestures (description instead of dialogue).
Once two civilizations meet, historians may be exchanged to learn each others language and customs. They will also discover social and political issues of the other civ. After a session, these historians can translate during meetings.
Your character can also learn the other language by visiting other civ for two in-game turns or by going to a school/being tutored. Tutors cost 10g per turn. Once you know the language, you need no more translators and can know for sure what the other leader says.
Timing of Movements
The timing of your movement is important. At the beginning of the session, everything is more active. It is morning in the first few hours of the session, and people begin to come out and learn of what is going on. Then day time hits and the streets are full of activity. As the session turn ends, the day begins to end, and it is the perfect opportunity for more hidden, incognito and suspicious activities, or walking around without so much attention and traffic.
Translating this into the game, those who submit their actions and movements in the first day of the session's turn will receive the outcome sooner. The disadvantage is that you might not see, hear or notice other players activities. If you wait until the second day of the session's turn, you will receive the outcomes at the end of the turn, but fewer players will notice your movements and whereabouts. The exact hour also matters, for the order players submit their movements and actions, no matter which day, will determine who and what you see, and what others see of you.
You may now sign up!
to sign up, give me your:
House Name: This will be your house's name, which will be every character's surname.
First Name: For your first character.
Rule Changes and Notices:
There is a new session schedule to help me process all the movements better. After two days of the session-turn, the submission period for movements and actions shall end, and a day will be reserved for processing all movements and actions. During this day, no movements or actions shall be accepted or submitted. Then the Midsession Event will come and the pattern would repeat. I have created the time-line for this in the
Quick Reference Charts.
I realized that players cannot really control when they want to do their movements because of time differences and RL. To fix this, I will let you choose the “time of day” for when to perform your movements and actions:
Morning: A period of time with few people in the streets, good for getting rumors and propaganda out to be told for the rest of the day.
Daytime: Regular period of the day, little crime, streets are in regular activity. Not good for stealthy business. Good for hearing opinions from the people of politicians and events
Evening: A period of time with people returning to their homes, nightlife comes out. Easier to find criminals.
Midnight: No one is out in the streets, best time for stealthy business. Not good for socializing with the crowds or AIs.
No matter at what time you submit the movements, you can always choose from any of the described periods. If you do not specify, I will see how long after the session post the orders were submitted and that will be the time of day when the orders will be performed. For assignments of your recruits, unless you want the unit to choose for himself and you trust his intelligence, you should specify.
I recommend you make your wills before your death. This way, I can easily update your stats even if your character died. This will speed up the transition from characters.
New option: Retirement. If you want to start using your character's son before your character's death, you may choose to retire, leaving control of the retired character to the AI and giving you control of the younger character. Be aware that if you retire you will loose your jobs, so make sure you can have the job transferred to the child or that he will have a job and continue to gain money and power from it.
Lobbying for a delay in session: If five players want the session to be extended, they may all PM me and it shall be done by adding an extra turn in the session. Leader of nation can also do this and it will be done (the perks of being king
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Transition Time:
Do not forget that no movements or actions can be submitted during the transition time. No matter what you have learned during this time, what you plan and want to do, or anything else, they will not be processed. The only way I can process these is if they are queued for the transition time before the actual time starts.
I understand that things can come up, or that you suddenly have an idea you can do. For this reason, I will allow a 24hr. Period after the Conclusion Update is posted for adding and queuing actions and movements for the transition time. (This can also be seen on the timetable in the Quick Reference Charts.)
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