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Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.

Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.

A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.

3/6

Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.

I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

[Blood_Librarian]

THe Army is done. We've essentially lost a significant portion of our fighting force and they need more then two years to cooperate. Soldiers that have had the experience of incompetent leaders still exist, and they are likely the ones that are in part leading the army now. if we push agendas with wars right now, there is a significant chance that it will bite us int he ass. The deal we have right now is fine, ti gives us a chance to push resources  into making technological advances, if anything, we should either ask for the secrets on how to make the fuel or more of it.

[Haspen]

You decide to not risk it, and send the gemstones to the Eldrican, per usual.

1118 AD, End of the Year

You dread this time of the year. Did you do enough saving and profiting to save the Treasury, and, ultimately, the Kingdom, from bankruptcy?

Here comes the Advisor; in his hands, the Scrolls of Kingdom Status lie.

He places them on your desk, and slowly rolls them open in unnecessarily dramatic way...

Happiness: 3
Population: 7
Economy: 1
Army: 3

You rub your temples. A disaster has been barely avoided. The Advisor coughs and then looks at you.

"My liege, I have naught to offer but to slash the Army's budget for a year. Or we could keep the taxes raised."

As for Army budget...

A) Our Army is strill recovering from the war and subsequent revolt. We need to rebuild it!
B) Fine, that will be a fitting punishment for those rebellious bastards!

As for raised taxes...

A) Alas, we can only hope that my subjects will understand - keep the taxes raised.
B) I can't risk people rebel because I strain their pockets this much; we need to lower the taxes.

[milo christiansen]

Well, we no longer share a boarder with the dwarves, north and south are held by allies, and west holds no interest for us. The next few years should be spent preparing for a rematch in the east.

AA

[Criptfeind]

BA

Need that cheddar to stay afloat.

[Blood_Librarian]

bb

Think of the peasant houses!

[omada]

Spoiler: I took too long to vote (click to show/hide)

B lucky roll is good only sometimes, let's not risk unless we have a secondary source of fireblood (maybe dogethe with access to the sea)

This year would be called "the weird year"

> Dwarves getting angry and refusing to diplomacy and breaking the contract by exploding the artifact.we never signed for giving them authority over who is righteous to hold it or not, IMAGINE IF WE WERE USING A NECKLACE, sorceress became a better option.
(We definetively should let the word of this spread, don't buy from dwarves, they will use that against you)
>we decided to wage war against the dwarves  and sucedding in destroy a city
>we took half of ceodwell lands in one row and lose it all in some months
>battles in the winter
>but in the end the victory were small and not profitable, got some lands on the border, lost a bunch of money to dwarves when we could get refund (okay, I wanted to try to vassalize too, it would be GREAT, although we would have problems with the king)
>a rabellion on the army went underway

Man, this was too much, if we knew it would end like this we could toss the money on dwarves finish a war and then deal with them

Or AB (as the army shall deal with rebels)
or BB Lay low for one year get some money and then return to increase army and stuff

[birdy51]

BB

We just had a revolt over taxes. If we don't let up- eventually we'll be spending so much money on revolt prevention that both our Army and our Economy will suffer. And as for the army, we just signed a truce with two of our biggest enemies. As long as we don't choose to fight, our Army can be recovered next year when we have monehs. I personally propose a tax break of five years; enough to let the embers of discontent to die down.

Also. We destroyed a fortress. We really should pat ourselves on the back for that!

[Blood_Librarian]

Personally I think we should retire to a more pleasant past time like bird watching.

[mightymushroom]

Peasant houses are already overflowing to the tune of 7 population.

We have ten years to work on the army. I just don't think making happiness even worse at the start of them is helpful.
B B

Natural taxes +1 //mistook the situation, sorry
Population bonus tax +1
Raised taxes +1
Gemstones traded
Silver Mine +1

Bureaucracy -1? (I've never felt sure that making the income department more efficient incurs expense?)
Professional Army -1
Fireblood R&D -1? (still ongoing, though they almost never ask for re-authorization?)

Dogethe's Gift +1

Did I miss some spending last year?

[Blood_Librarian]

Paying off  of our previous failures of being poor.

[Criptfeind]

I'm unsure if natural taxes is a thing. It's something people have relied on for some decisions but I'm really not sure if we actually get that or if it's just assumed to go into all the normal administrative expenses of running a kingdom+small expenses we have that aren't worth an economy.

Edit: Since this is something that's come up time and time again I went ahead and asked the GM. He said that no, we don't.

[Prophet]

As much as I hate to admit it yeah. Those bastards gave us a good one so BB for a little bit while we raise the money to rebuild our army. We've got while after all. A treaty is a treaty and we stick by our word and honor. Even if the treaty was written for us while we had a knife to our back. They'll regret the day that that the didn't finish us off though. They'll know our pain eventually.

[Kashyyk]

BB

[crazyabe]

BB.

[Haspen]

You decide to withhold funding from the Army, and lower the taxes to previous amounts.

1119 AD, Spring

You hear of trouble in Kingdom of Eldrican; apparently, the new Tirine king has been rather uncooperative towards Elran III. After the last year was spent on covert hostilities, some insults and dealings with foreign rulers, the conflict blew up into a full-scale war.

Also, a proposal sent by the local Alldivine Cloisters has caused some ruckus amongst your courtiers. Apparently, the Alldivine Cloisterlords wish to establish a sacred land in ex-Zasitost lands. There their worshippers could live under the yoke just hand of theocratic government, to ensure that the faith of Alldivines will remain strong and have some temporal possessions to live on.

What was most surprising is the amount of money offered; almost equal to eight years of profits that taxation of Methiantese peoples could bring.

The proposal came up in the same days when your royal prospectors sent their report; the land around ruins of Zasitost is sparsely populated and thus has a lots of living room, not to mention quite fertile ground for farmlands and such. Colonization and settling of this land could give your subjects much breathing (and breeding, hehe) space, although this would require infusion of some royal funds to kickstart it.

After thorough contemplation on those proposals, you decide to...

A) Sell the land to the Alldivine Cloisters at agreed-to price.
B) Sell the land to the Alldivine Cloisters, but at much higher price; after all we're talking about highest quality farmlands here!
C) Sponsor settlement effort of the eastern lands.
D) Shoot down both ideas.