Factors of Production

Factors of Production

Goods drift across the realm on their own, flowing from where they are cheap toward where they are dear. Every point on the map has a price for every good. You run wagons that move goods far faster than they drift, pocketing the difference in price between pick-up and drop-off. Sell a lot in one place and the price there falls; buy a lot and it rises.

• Towns are markets. Goods within a town's circle trade at the price at its centre. Towns consume goods and grow when well supplied; Keeps want arms and call campaigns you can stake on.
• Trade routes link towns. Buy wagons for a route; at each stop they sell what was bound there and load whatever pays best ahead. You can restrict what they carry.
• Resource sites (mines, camps, lodges) produce raw goods. Workshops (smelters, sawmills, forges…) buy inputs from their surroundings and make something dearer, but only while it's profitable. Buy any of them, found new ones at a town or site, and invest in capacity or efficiency.
• Price maps show where a good is cheap (blue) and dear (red). Raw goods are free to view; others need a survey.

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