Since his economy is entirely closed, all he's doing by increasing wages is inflating prices across the market and keeping himself from buying from the game store.
The true effects of his artificial inflation is that when trade opens, his people will be buying good enmasse from other countries at overpriced levels, collapsing his internal industries that can't compete with external industries prices, and leading to massive outflow of gold from his territory to trading partners.
Shitty economics.
On the other hand, it seems unfathomable not a single adventurer player has gone to seek out the territory of the richest lord in the entire world. Aside from the curious, If nothing else, the rich and powerful groups across the world would want to spy on him and perhaps copy whatever he's doing since they must assume he has some sort of insider information. Newbies can even choose what general region to appear in, you'd imagine there'd be literally thousands of spies crawling in his land "adventuring"
Buying all the manuals from the market at once is practically telling his competitors that manuals are more valuable than the fake martial arts - they'll go to the market and notice all the real ones have disappeared - he's basically giving information away for free.
He sold his house for 2 million. Which translates (current rate of 1copper = 5 credits) to 40g. Or was it 20 million? Still only 400g. The salaries and spending he does should be crashing his economy XD
Didnt the salt pens generate almost 8k before? Why is it only 4k now? Also we haven't heard about Blackfang(dog) his horse and guardian beast for a long time.
They NEED to Divide the TOTAL Salt Pan Acreage into 30 equal parts then start the First on Day 1 then the next till you get to 30 then harvest #1 & replant. That way you have a Daily Income.
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