Private Funds OOC discussion

[Folgore]

No, you're allowed more than one, but only one/province. I think making them available in too many places would make estates too powerful in comparison to cargo ships, as it's the current limitations that keeps the far less reliable sea trade option viable. If you had one estate in Alexandria and one in Memphis today, there's only one sea trade route that could compete with that, and that would be the Alexandreia-Salamis route, and that would require all 15 ships. As you can only have one person/route, and you have to reclaim a route each year, on top of interruptions because of pirates being harder to dispatch than brigands and enemy fleets also being more probable than enemy armies, there's really little incentive of going for the sea trade option. I only did so to leave place for you guys to have estates.

True, but as it is, some players will be able to build two estates, while others can have only one. This means they'll have more than twice as much income solely because they posted first, which isn't really fun or fair, in my opinion. Perhaps we should limit the amount of estates a player can own to two and allow them to be built in type II government provinces as well. To balance out the trade shipping we then but the limit of ships on 20.

Also, an income of 1411 will only allow you to build a very small private army. With the units recruitable in Alexandreia, I've come up with 2 Machimoi Phalangitai (2 x 330), 2 Pantodapoi (2 x 224) and 2 Toxotai (2 x 103) for a total of 1314 mnai upkeep. That might just about be enough to take Paraithonion or Ammonion, but I'd be surprised if you could take any other settlement with that "army".