I think I'm roughly in balance with my grain requirements for SPS and RESEARCH in relation to my grain production and the Castle is now starting to be a MASSIVE player in this equation, and it's only relatively early dayz....
Production Overview...
Compared to the last time I checked, shortly before the LONG Christmas break I've jiggled a few higher power cards to grain and a few more grain plots have come on line, so now, before tax, I have a small grain surplus.
But after tax, that surplus turns to a deficit. One loses around 10% in tax, NASTY!
Thankfully I get a portion of this from the Castle, around 12K a day from my own plots.
Taxing other plots...
I was pleasantly surprised to see that there are total of 171 plots constructed and producing in my region....
Granted around 70 of those are my own, top left, but that means I am collecting tax on another 100 plots, which gives me around 6K grain a day ATM, and that's only going to go up.
Overall I am around 18K a day from the castle, and running a 15K a day deficit with the other plots, so that's pretty much bang on what I need when I factor in an additional 15K per plots under construction.
And under development
That's around another 40 plots under development, so I can expect to be earning around 10K grain a day by the end of Jan I imagine, from other people, which is nice!
A slow start, but anything is good I guess....
I think I've probably got quite a slow region, not much developed, I've been whale-fucked, that is there are whales holding 4 tracts doing nothing with them, but that's the way SL works, so no surprise.
It's just nice to have something, and that Castle is a massive help already. I mean 18K grain a day, that's a few extra plots of production right there already!