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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.

[Haspen]

You accept their offer of 'payment' for your grain.

The Hurthlings depart two weeks later with lots of wagons of grain.

1103 AD, Winter

Agaresian caravan arrives! They bring bags upon bags of salt.

2to5

Selling the salt to your subjects earns you some profits that equal the cost of the salt; your people are happy to be able to add salt to their dishes! Speaking of silver:

1to4

The silver mines managed to fill the yearly quotas, but just barely.

1103 AD, Midwinter

Ana gives birth to a child! It's a boy; your wife names him 'Duach'.

You receive reports from the borderlands; some brave men entered the domain of the Hurthlings and did a little of trading with them, although they haven't traveresed further than a day travel from their borders - confirming that Hurthlings are, or rather, were, suffering from crop failure. Some of younger Hurthlings then decided to travel to your lands and do some sightseeing at the border.

1103 AD, End of the Year

It's that time of the Year, and the Advisor is as punctual as ever.

Happiness: 6
Population: 6
Economy: 8
Army: 4

"My liege! We have managed to accumulate lots of wealth this year. Shall we spend it in some way?" You decide to...

A) Request dwarves to come to your palace and make an artifact.
B) Donate some wealth to appease the peasants.
C) Just keep the money in the vault.
D) Build a grandiose monument to commemorate your prosperous reign.

[crazyabe]

A.
They are almost always useful.

[Criptfeind]

C

Our income stream still seems iffy.

I don't suppose we could get a taily of the expected expenses and profits from a year?

[Prophet]

B Happy Peasants don't cause trouble and pay their taxes.

[helmacon]

C

been a while since we've seen the battle brothers. Are they still around?

[ZBridges]

A

[birdy51]

C

[mightymushroom]

It doesn't look like any of these choices shore up the army; even the artifact is unlikely to have a general bonus.

been a while since we've seen the battle brothers. Are they still around?

Lore says they're here and there and everywhere. Maybe they're miffed that our crazy bro didn't convert?

In the meantime, B. We didn't know tax reform would increase taxes on top of the other increase. Rebate check is in the mail!

I don't suppose we could get a taily of the expected expenses and profits from a year?

I may not remember everything, but I count:

Regular debits and credits:
+2? basic tax rate, increased once (may have unknown modifiers?)
+1 tax bonus at 6 pop thanks to reforms
+0 gemstones (traded to Eldrican for fireblood materiel, would be +1)
+1? silver; mine faces imminent exhaustion so don't count on it long term
-0? salt trade (at -1 but apparently repays itself on average roll 2to5)

Short term outlays:
-?? thundercat research (projected to end this? year)

So our bottom line should be in fairly good condition, really.

[Kashyyk]

C Happiness is fine. Salt seems to be keeping their spirits up suitably.

[Weirdsound]

No option to improve our military this time? C it is.

[Baffler]

C.

[omada]

A we can always dismiss them when we don't find their artifacts worth it

[Iituem]

C for now.  We'd be better put improving peasant morale through public works than a tax rebate.

[Weirdsound]

A we can always dismiss them when we don't find their artifacts worth it

This is true. There is no harm in window shopping. A

[Aseaheru]

 C, hopefully someone will come up with a plan for, I dunno, a network of roads and inns to improve trade and communications? Something to make them happier with a bonus other than "you give money to people, people happy".