13. To develop a flourishing economy, you need not only the production buildings, but also some townspeople to create economic activity. When you build a dwelling, you get townsfolk, and they generate coins. How can you add these coins to your treasury?
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Answer:
Send out the tax collector
You can also, if you're lucky, collect small amounts of coins from the heads of townspeople who wander around carrying coins from place to place. (Some also carry stone, wood or food - not much, but hey, it all helps.) The tax collector can be sent out for varying amounts of time, and the amount collected depends on your castle's population. A ten-minute collection is the most economically efficient, but you have to be there pretty constantly to keep collecting. Longer trips collect more slowly, but are useful if you plan to be away from the game -say, to get some sleep, or go to work. Thirty-minute collection nets about twice as much as ten minutes; longer collections reduce in similar fashion.
Why do you need coins? They are primarily used to purchase soldiers, and to pay for their hospitalisation if they are injured. Coins are also required to forge armour and weapons for the castellan (and for your commanders, but they will be sitting idle). This is valuable for making the men defending the walls of your castle stronger. Also, having your castellans and commanders well equipped earns you might points, which help others see you as a strong player to be treated with respect - and therefore makes it less likely that you will log in tomorrow to see the castle enveloped in flames.
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