Legal Mode and Illegal Mode for Plantation

[Grimrock Litless]

Ports keeps having no goods.

Most people just keep the goods and trade them to earn pure profits. So, this kind of thing is gonna happen.

This is something I've said quite a few times before, way before anyone ever did.
I think it has come time for me to make a suggestion to fix this.



Ever saw this before?

Very simple.
Legal Mode is after you've gotten a Operating Permission from the governor.

The plantation in legal mode must always sell their goods to the market straight away after producing them, and can't store them, unless he just buys them from the market.
The plantation can rent more acres.

Illegal Mode is when you have no Operating permission, you can still produce goods.

The plantation in illegal mode can't sell goods produced to the market. He can only store them.
The plantation produce 10% less.
The plantation improve 80% slower.
The plantation can only order a 100 acres rent per day. Also have a corruption fee of 10gc each acres you must pay no matter the actual price of each acres.

This also fix the issue with people who worked very hard to build up a plantation but couldn't use it anymore because the governor is being an as.

[Grimrock Litless]

Why do I care soo much, they obviously don't.

[Meliva]

I think this is a good suggestion, or at the very least some sort of incentive to sell goods to the port directly should be added. Otherwise big traders might just trade their plantation production away, and new traders will be unable to trade at all.

[Lachlan]

sounds good!

[Sir Henry Morgan]

I like the idea here's is another way that might be worth considering:

As ports run out of stock, there is no way for the citizenry to pay their taxes, i.e, the lack of goods in port for sale means the economy is poor - therefore, there is no gold coin for the citizenry to pay taxes.

This is where the population of a port will be tied to the port stocks. If there is no business there, they have nothing to pay taxes with, thus population tax revenues should begin to drop. The percentage of tax paying citizens should drop.

This may encourage port controlling governments to take action by "subsidizing" stock sales to the ports, or (better yet) through laws that require a certain percentage of goods produced by plantations be sold to the ports, and a fine (that will go into the treasuries) if a plantation owner does not comply with the minimum percentage.

[Poppy]

I like the idea here's is another way that might be worth considering:

As ports run out of stock, there is no way for the citizenry to pay their taxes, i.e, the lack of goods in port for sale means the economy is poor - therefore, there is no gold coin for the citizenry to pay taxes.

This is where the population of a port will be tied to the port stocks. If there is no business there, they have nothing to pay taxes with, thus population tax revenues should begin to drop. The percentage of tax paying citizens should drop.

This may encourage port controlling governments to take action by "subsidizing" stock sales to the ports, or (better yet) through laws that require a certain percentage of goods produced by plantations be sold to the ports, and a fine (that will go into the treasuries) if a plantation owner does not comply with the minimum percentage.

A. With the right Tech and voodoo its better to sell plantation output to port and then buy it back from the market.
B. when a port runs out of stock influence should be the one dropping the fastest. I like the Idea of subsidizing certain goods to keep port and influence going.