The Temple of Abadar has 2.5bp to invest.
Upgrade temple to minster (cost 2bp, +1 loyalty, +1 stability).
Leaves 0.5bp to invest elsewhere.

Brother Bart clears his throat apologetically,   "I understand the the Ladies are looking for donations to help build their new school.  Lady Viktoria, Lade Valaria and Lady Bai, have all  donated 0.5bp each, and are searching for another 0.5 bp ..."

Andalon smiles enigmatically.

"The church of Abadar is not a charity organisation but, under the circumstances, if the ladies are unable to find another donor then the church of Abadar will loan them the last 0.5bp they need for the school, as an interest free loan to be repaid next round. If I am not mistaken the school would generate sufficient revenue to repay that loan by then," he offers. "Of course, I wish them well in their search for an outright donation. That would be even better for all of us. I am sure there will be plenty of other investment opportunities that the church of Abadar can pursue, and potentially more lucrative as well."

I think it may be a good idea for the town council to invest in a Barracks for our town guard (cost 3bp, +1 stability, +2 defence), with the option to upgrade to a Garrison next round (cost 1bp for +1 defence).

I think that is more effective than enclosing district 4 with a "small wall", which would cost 3bp but only gives +1 defence (no improvement to loyalty and stability?).

If the town has 4bp to invest +0.5bp from Cass + one building bean (0.5bp) then we would still have 2bp left after building the Barracks. Maybe use that for a Park (cost 1.5bp, +2 loyalty, +1 stability) and Pipre's suggestion of Public Baths (0.5bp, +1 loyalty)? Or whatever other combination of civic developments gives the best overall balance of stability and loyalty when everyone else's investment choices are added in.

Kendrick chimed in. "Barracks would be welcome. I was planning to bunk with the troops in order to increase morale. But I didn't realize that the men were staying in hostels or whatever they were able to find for themselves."

Pipre proposes to build an academic college (1/2/2) with her income from the alchemist shop and brothel.

So I believe that with the barracks, bath, park, Pipre's Academy (for burgeoning bombadiers), and Cass's inn upgrade, the numbers look like this:

29 Economy
31 Loyalty
29 Stability

In the clear unless other proposals require us to change things.

Adoven's jetty Upgrade?

Did this include the Serai for Winter Sun?

Pier and Serai would bring numbers to:

31 Economy
31 Loyalty
29 Stability

Still in balance.

Would WSM be able to donate .5 BP to Tusk Town this session? If so, that portion of resources may be best reserved as partial payment on a larger municipal project unless something arises that requires immediate investment.

At this point I'm afraid all the WSM bp are being used to build the serai.

In reply to Cass Mordane (msg # 233):

As I said,  I have 0.5 bp unspent after purchases,  debts paid,  and 0.5 contributed to School. That can go towards partial payment of a larger municipal project, since I must expand my warehouse next turn to gain my City base.

Hey boss, can WSM and V&A make a joint venture to ship trade goods directly to Restov from Tusk? Water-born shipments along the upper and lower waterways,  with a land component making the connection between the two? We could split the profits,  and it yields us and External Trade Route.

That sounds like an interesting idea.  Provided we get the go ahead from our fearless leader.  (That's you DM)

I'll work the Spreadsheet magic over the weekend ....

The Three Ladies of Virtue School (cost 2bp, +1 economy, +1 loyalty, +1 stability) doesn't affect the balance. At this stage it looks like the church of Abadar will be providing an interest free loan (for one Kingdom round) of 0.5bp to top up the funding of the school.

It would make sense to balance loyalty and stability if we can, so that the allowable 2 point variance can go to commercial developments that add economy. If loyalty is 2 points higher than stability (eg. 31 / 29) we could cancel the public baths again (i.e. no +1 on loyalty) and cancel the park (i.e. no +2 on loyalty and no +1 on stability).

Instead invest in something that balances loyalty and stability, eg.

• Jail (1.5bp, +1 loyalty, +2 stability) and public baths (0.5bp, +1 loyalty) - LOL, it's back! We're determined to clean up our town; or
  
• Courthouse (2bp, +2 loyalty, +2 stability); or
• Orphanage (2bp, +2 loyalty, +2 stability); or
  
• Paved Streets in the Merchant District (2bp, +2 loyalty, +2 stability), etc.

This message was last edited by the player at 15:12, Fri 22 Mar 2019.

Actually the town guard does have accommodation provided already. The keep provides equivalent of barracks accommodation for 2 units; the small wall around the first 3 districts includes a watchtower at the gate for each district and lakeside district has its own watchtower too. Watchtowers provide basic accommodation for one unit of troops each. Adding a proper barracks adds 2 more units of troops and provides better accommodation for troops and each unit can be rotated between keep, barracks and watchtowers on a regular basis, too.

You already have a jail in Central District.

Checl out the Spreadsheet under the Financial Details link at the bottom of the page. The jail  is on the left hand side, and are all council sponsored buildings.

http://rp.baileymail.net/doku....nd:midmarch:tusktown

You also have an orphanage in Port Henry.

If you start to run out of development space,  you could consider relocation - I am sure we could work out a small BP cost ....

Oops. A granary is the only other +1 loyalty, +2 stability option instead of jail and we already have a Tusk Granary too. OK scratch the jail and orphanage options. That leaves a Courthouse or Paved Streets in one district. Technically we could add Drains in Central District for the same cost and benefit but that hardly seems fair for the rest of the town.

Technically, you can have  one of each type of building per district - but I thought you might want the Heads up :)

It doesn't make much sense (in terms of development of the city) to double up on things when there are so many things we still don't have, so I certainly do appreciate the heads up. :o)

Local market adds Economy AND stability?

Yes, and it drives me nuts that we don't have a local market at least. Local Market costs 1.5bp for +1 economy and +1 stability.

The problem is that +1 economy. We have no shortage of investors for developments that have an economy component, but very few who have offered to build anything that doesn't have an economy component (because that's where the main return on investment comes from). Accordingly it falls to Tusk Town Council to spend the funds we get from taxes to increase the loyalty and stability scores of the town (and defence, of course).

Local Market is something we will probably need to leave to the private sector to provide.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:07, Sat 23 Mar 2019.

I will probably get around to financing a Local Market after I secure a City base. But I can't see the government allowing private enterprise such as myself controlling any aspect of a city defense (outside of a sword school, that is).

In reply to Andalon de Lebeda (msg # 246):

Kendrick chimed in on why he thought the local market should be a city focus. "I don't see why the city shouldn't set up the local market. The stalls and vendors should seek city permits. And we would be patrol those areas as a result. It wouldn't be good to have random people hawking their wares without a permit. That wouldn't be right."