During the time he was away at Jigolaths, tax income had increased significantly due to the increase in population!
In addition to the northern migrants that were roving around, there is an exponential increase in newbies.
“I really am a good judge of what inherent qualities something possesses.”
A good lord that knows how to gather large amount of population!
While the lord was away, houses and commercial buildings were built.
This is why setting up zones was very important. If it was left alone to do whatever they wanted, complex roads would have to be built, making movement for carriages difficult. But Weed, in advance, made several plazas and expanded the following areas around the main roads, keeping the side effects to a minimal.
In the city, Weed lived in a nice neighborhood. It was not in a city where he lived in an apartment that looked over Han River with a lake and a park. The city was spread out like a checkerboard and one can see off into the distance mountains.
In short, it was like living in his town!
In the early evening, the fire lights turned on brightly, he could see the night view of the city.
In the morning, as he ran through a long alleyways set with fog, as he delivered newspapers.
In the middle of winter, it was very difficult and dangerous to travel on the hilly streets.
Based on the experience he had gained through living in the hilly area, it was easier for him to grow and plan his city to make it better.
The placement of commercial area in the center with parks, plaza and residential areas surrounding it.
Later on private residential areas were made near the river.
Of course right now it was filled with the shantytown, but it wasn’t a big problem.
Weed was not aiming for the high level nor medium level but a lord that thought about the newbies.
“Newbies need to buy houses. So I can tax them later!”
In the beginning the newbie players will be satisfied with the shacks, as they level up more and have more money they will be interested in luxury houses. They will fall in love with their house in Morata and they will pay more taxes.
Weed did not think that the shantytown looked hideous.
The shantytown buildings next to the great sculpture looked charming.
“This is all for tax!”
Trilling!
- Morata’s cultural development are enhancing the region's capabilities.
Morata’s cultural propagation.
Morata has become a flourishing cultural area due to the influence of its art, because of its abundant art and technology, trading between different races or monsters is now possible. If you make them a little smarter, it will ease their aggressive side.
If you teach them language and numbers, trade will be possible, humans and other tribes will become intimate.
Degrees, culture and art, the technique for warriors or any related fields with intermediate skills, in some cases knowledge, wisdom and language skills will be sought after.
Due to improved cultural development one can now construct grand architectures.
Construction for unique buildings can be started, the result will depend on the skill levels or ability of the architect or architects working on it.
The main architect of a great architectural building will receive high cultural value and possibly a promotion in their job field.
A cultural job that can thrive without the need of a warrior is a very good job.
If there is an increase in the amount of the tribes that can trade, they can trade for the development and technology. Commercial goods will also increase.
There is a definite possibility that job specific Quests can have variety of benefits.
In the future, cultural jobs will eventually be the best job to have.
Weed decided to begin the jobs that he had earlier decided to put off.
“Later, I should be able to raise taxes by three gold.”
He looked forward to raising taxes even more than hearing about the increase of newbie players.
As he waited patiently, enduring the short term tax break so that later, he could truly enjoy reaping the greater benefits by exploitation!
As thing stand, the Art Center fee, tax, trade tariffs and the property tax for houses is miserably low when compared to the Central Continent kingdoms.
“Lord’s Mode”
- Monitoring the screen through internal affairs mode.(Ah,I think I know why people have so much trouble to write about this.)
Military: 91
Economic Power: 1737
Culture: 2384
Technology: 592
Urban Development: 171
Hygiene: 37
Public Security: 52%
Corruption: 11
Own Funds: 1,202,890 gold
Function available to the Lord who rules over Morata.
‘Internal affairs mode’ Was designed to handle small scale things within a village, for example if residents needed infrastructure or goods such as pubs or cows he can build them and even establish necessary guilds.
In the early stages, the development the village needs to be watched over by the lord, now that Morata has become a big city. Architects are designing and building places that Weed would have otherwise had to build himself, the size of the city is increasing exponentially.
It’s difficult to make larger profit margins on buildings such as bars, restaurants, inns and grocery stores because of the competition in keeping prices down between players.
Up until now, Buildings could be built and make money as they would give a good return on investment, Presently the city of Morata the trade hub of the north and had a huge number of newbie merchants gathered there. Right now, rather than operating inns and bars, it was time to expanding mines and increase taxes in trading.
“But still, there are a lot of things that needs to be developed first.”
Weed was going to invest all his money into Morata.
The Art hall fee’s had generated a huge 210 thousand gold. Including his 1.7 million gold, Weed had accumulated a huge sum of money!
Weed first used his money on minor things.
“It seems that I need to plants some trees on the side of the road.”
Weed was being environmental friendly!
It didn’t seem to be a bad idea to plant trees as he was learning more about Nature Sculpting.
If there were players with a Landscape Architecture profession in Morata, they could nurture the trees on the side of the road and gain experience that way, although such professions were very rare.
He invested 1,298 gold to plant trees!
“Trees need to grow diligently.”
He sprinkled cheap seeds on the side of the streets.
Apple trees, pear trees, grape vines and peach trees, he only picked trees that bear fruit!
Because the seeds were blessed by the Freya Order, the moment the scattered seeds hit the soil, it began to take roots and quickly grew.
Weed quickly made some orchards along the streets!
“I feel proud doing good deeds!”
Weed was satisfied on his contribution to the environment.
Since he became the lord, he aggressively invested in the agricultural area to make sure no one went hungry, as a result, Morata had a vast amount of food.
Together, Morata’s farmers and the Freya Order began to clearing the land, planting, growing and harvesting a variety of food such as strawberries, tomato, rice, wheat and sweet potatoes.
It was too far away and expensive to import food from the Central Continent in the other parts of the northern areas, due to monsters ambushing remote towns it was difficult to farm.