What kind of interest rates are we looking at on debt?
10-20%, mostly. Most of Saragossa's is at 9%, as I recall.
Will interest rates be negotiable? I would hope so but that would give you a lot of work keeping track of it. You could let the burden of recording the rate fall on the player, but players can/will lie.
No, in most cases. If you want a really incredibly huge and dangerous loan, you might have to negotiate with the creditors for a higher interest rate to make it worth their while, but that's about all. Of course, if you threaten default you might be able to knock down the rates on existing debt.
Minor nitpick, could you separate the sections within the rules a bit more. There is technically one giant section on economy that includes militaries and so forth.
Yeah, I'm going to have a better version of the rules for the actual thread.
Roughly how many men are in a company? How are they organized? My guess is its probably two-three units of about one hundred and fifty to two hundred men (roughly the number of max members of a social network) by Liutenants and with a Captain over them all.
Are our armies all broadly organized in this form or is it just stat standardization?
Thank you.
250ish in a company. There's no uniform organization, other than that in western Europe they're pretty much all raised on commission by contractors. Western European armies, or at least their professional components, are organized broadly along the same lines; for the rest it's stat standardization.
Where can we find the post for PoD, Perfection? Or a summary please?
Previous discussion of the PoD, not that there was much, is
here. I'll probably write a briefish summary of the TL for the thread. The PoD, by the way, was that Ecgfrith lives longer, leading to England unifying earlier and not getting killed by Vikings.
I also propose that the mod, and not the player, decides when specific rulers die and heirs are born. Think of it as a negative/positive random event.
Adding this to the stats on some level would definitely improve the realism level without THAT much extra work.
I was going to do that, but wasn't sure it needed to go into stats. Do you think I should add a Ruler/Heirs stat, then?
I see a possible peculiarity in Volhynia's stats:
should that be 800,000?
Also, I see that Birdjag edited his post to give his reservations and it didn't get noticed and noted in the reservations.
Both fixed; thanks for pointing them out.