The NOT SO Free Love & Trade of Nova Amere - UPDATED MARCH 25th

[Lt_Anders]

Wouldn't it be the same amount of points spent whichever way you go from 15?  7 would be the same as 23.  I know this because I have it all written down on a notepad like a big ol' nerd.

Yes It would be the same. I was going to say that.

But look at the map. the BLUE Zone is Off limits, so your trade has to be primarily from the north section. Make a fief that would make northern trade zones look appealing.
(TKOV trades amongst itself mainly as well as bisecting the map and making north south trade not as good as those factions hate each other, like FCC and Occitan etc)

[partyboy]

Hm I'm seeing a lot of the furthest fiefs on the map as high priced in the north and not a lot of buy fiefs in the middle, except Desire's.  I liked the idea of a high sell fief though, because I'm under the impression that the goods have to be sold to get the tax money and I am an impatient babby.

[Knute]

What's your prosperity at? It might be better not to respec at this point depending on what you have.

Unless the system changed you'd only have half your current points after the respec.  The numbers could be slightly off but on October 2nd we had 233 points after they let everyone respec their villages, and villages get 1 point per day so 88 points later you'd have 321, divided by two is only 160 points.

Fief points system:

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FIEF POINTS SYSTEM
- Villages start with 200 Points to spend and gain 1 per day there after
- Castles start with 100 points and gain 5 per day there after
- Towns start with 0 points and gain 7 per day there after
- You can respec your points at any time but it will cost you 50% of your current points and takes 4 days to come into effect
- All Items start at -2
-2 -> -1 = 1 point
-1 -> 0 = 1 point
0 -> +1 = 8 points
+1 -> +2 = 16 points
+2 -> +3 = 32 points
- Equipment discounts apply to individual items, go up in multiples of 5% and cost 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55 points per level
- Changing the tax rate of a fief by 1% in either direction costs 5 upgrade points.
- Goods prices start at 15 gold and cost 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55 per change in either direction from 15.
- Default fief transactions per day is 200 at a goods price of 15.  These arrive hourly and each transaction can be used to buy or sell 1 good. . At 5 gold per good transactions are increased to 400 per day.  At 25 gold per good transactions are reduced to 100 per day.  This scales linearly in between the values mentioned.  Transactions can be increased by 2 for every 1 PP spent

Unless your prosperity is really low, I'd say say don't respec and keep on putting points in prosperity.  The Uslum to Amere distance bonus is 299% btw so people might get a similar distance bonus from other fiefs on the edge of the map.

[partyboy]

Yeah, the prosperity is barely touched so getting rid of the weapon upgrades will get me slightly ahead of where I am now.  A pp reset would be awwwwful nice right about now.

[Aderyn]

to clarify what i meant by that statement partyboy

1 point less in cost is 1 less to buy it for, but 1 point higher in sellprice is 4 with 400% farawaybonus.

so if you had a 7 village you would buy 1k tradegoods at 7k.

But when you sell those at 400% at a 23 village you get 23*4 = 92/each (92 000)

so if you go into a village with 24 price you get 24*4 = 96/each (96 000)

but if you bought a tradegoods at 6 you'd only save 1k in total compared to making 4k.

TL;DR sellvillages need to be very high price for good profit, buyvillages doesn't matter as much.
Especially considering how much pp it takes to lower the price after 7, the prosperity is more worth it imo.

[Nightingale]

My Village (Tadsamesh) is a free trading village as well, prosperity isn't the best but it is 'decent' feel free to buy there whenever.

[WITCHCRAFT]

Free love? When are you holding Amerestock? Three days of music, peace, and love. Bring your ukelele!

[Sandersson Jankins]

Free love? When are you holding Amerestock? Three days of music, peace, and love. Bring your ukelele!

Anyone interested in purchasing some fine vegetables and other assorted consumables?

[partyboy]

Yeah, I think I'm going to go low-price buy fief since I don't have to max out the price to have people buy from it.  Ya'll got about two days to get your sell on.

[Aderyn]

what tax % are you aiming at?

[partyboy]

Something pretty low, I don't have many points to work with and I think prosperity is more important in the long run.

[partyboy]

RESPECCED VILLAGE TO LOW PRICE, STATS CHANGED IN OP

Our Exotic Oak Timber is now Fair Trade

[Lt_Anders]

What is prosperity? That'd be at least helpful to me.

[partyboy]

I got it up to 484 and I think I get 3 points a day?  So it'll raise by 6 every day.

[Lt_Anders]

I got it up to 484 and I think I get 3 points a day?  So it'll raise by 6 every day.

1 per day.
Castles 5
Cities 7