Blasterbot

Well-known member
[X] Plan Screw Marx
-[X] Train your body – Your body is a gift from god, you are tall and your natural strength extraordinary, but you are nothing if not a perfectionist, and you believe you can do much better if you train yourself
-[X] Theresia military academy curriculum— For 3 years, you shall be trained in all matter of land warfare and soldiery, before graduating a with the grade of leutnant.
-[X] Look deeper—The Austro-Hungarian military doctrine is something rather common in Europe, it calls for constant aggression, with the belief that morale and spirit is the key to overrun any defense and winning battles, equipment being a somewhat secondary concerns, and while you somewhat agree with them about the importance of such, you’re nursing some doubt; those tactics were created when rifle had a fire rate several time smaller and less accurate than what is currently in circulation, and that’s without going into the advent of maschinengewehr, since you’ll be taking you’re commission within a year, it might be wise to ponder on those matter.
-[X] Spend time with your friends in the intelligentsia—You’ve made a numbers of friends in your little club of mathematicians, and even though you may be leaving after graduation to your posting, keeping those relation alive is always a plus since you enjoy spending time with them and talking about mathematics.
-[X] Spending money—You are now rich, and as such you have many more option on what to do with your money, from investing in company and real estate to buying a house for your family or giving money to charities.
-[X] Funding your brother—Being a politician and being a civil servant in the empire are quite similar things, and they both cost money, now that you have that money you could fund your brothers study and career, to help him advance in the ranks, you are sure he would be grateful.
-[X] Finish Learning Czech – You’ve managed to learn the basic of Czech in your turn at the academy, but you were never one to leave things unfinished, and you still have time to finish learning the languages before you graduate.
-[X] Buy books on economic theory—Your study on work methods has piqued you opened your horizons, and you now find yourself with a growing interest on the subject of economy and its mechanics, unfortunately, nobody around you really understand how it works, so you can only turn to the source of all knowledge; books.
-[X] Attend church—Your parents still want you to attend church every Sunday, but you are now alone in Vienna, so it is your choice whether you wish to attend service or not.

plan mostly keeps us on course with a few points. 1 deepens the connection with the intellectuals. 2 goes a bit deeper on economics so we can start maybe poking holes in that asshole's theories. otherwise we keep helping our bro out and pick the option that lets us get our folks out of that factory. look deeper is a must as our goal is to be an officer and hopefully we can work out how bloody a war right now would end up. don't want to give up church as communists hate it and it is appropriate for the time. but that may be the thing I am most flexible on.
 

tri2

Well-known member
[X] Plan Martial and Influence

-[X] Mingle with the local soldiery – You’ve spent most of your youth spending time with soldiers, and you now aim to be one, being in Vienna is both a boon and a curse for you, on one hand, you do not have any acquaintance amongst the locals soldiers and must build relationship from scratch, on the other hand, Vienna is the beating heart of the Empire, both the military and civilian side of it, high ranking officers and official concentrate here and the Imperial General staff HQ is present here, both Landwehr and K.u.K troops can also be found in the city, making it the perfect place to learn more about the state of the army and create a personal network.
-[X] Buy and read military books – Europe has a long history of warfare, with many great military minds appearing throughout its history, from Caesar to Napoleon, there is much to learn about war from books… as long as you are willing to pay, and now that you are in the academy, studying those writings may be more important than ever

-[X] Train your body – Your body is a gift from god, you are tall and your natural strength extraordinary, but you are nothing if not a perfectionist, and you believe you can do much better if you train yourself
-[X] Theresia military academy curriculum— For 3 years, you shall be trained in all matter of land warfare and soldiery, before graduating a with the grade of leutnant.

-[X] Look deeper—The Austro-Hungarian military doctrine is something rather common in Europe, it calls for constant aggression, with the belief that morale and spirit is the key to overrun any defense and winning battles, equipment being a somewhat secondary concerns, and while you somewhat agree with them about the importance of such, you’re nursing some doubt; those tactics were created when rifle had a fire rate several time smaller and less accurate than what is currently in circulation, and that’s without going into the advent of maschinengewehr, since you’ll be taking you’re commission within a year, it might be wise to ponder on those matter.

-[X] Spend time with your fellow trainees – Your childhood friends are now out of reach for you, perhaps forever so, but perhaps you can make new ones amongst your fellow trainees, you’re all in for the same life after all.

-[X] Invitation into high society—Your book has propelled you from an almost unknown poor man from a working class family to a rather wealthy and famous author with great intellectuals capacity, the results are rather funny for you, considering your effort in regard to your brother matters in prior years, you’ve now been invited to participate in several events of high society to make yourselves known to the nobility and bourgeoisie, you are now officially “one of them” and as such they are interested in making your acquaintance.

-[X] Spending money—You are now rich, and as such you have many more option on what to do with your money, from investing in company and real estate to buying a house for your family or giving money to charities.

-[X] Double down; Allow you to add a +20 to a roll by spending another action on it.
--[X] Theresia military academy curriculum

focus on on military skills, military contacts, and influence among the rich and powerful. Then next turn we can use our new military position and influence among the wealthy to help our family even more and focus on other things.
 

Golum936

Member
[X] Plan: Social Climb v2
-[X] Train your body – Your body is a gift from god, you are tall and your natural strength extraordinary, but you are nothing if not a perfectionist, and you believe you can do much better if you train yourself
Time: 2 Turns
DC: ?? Cost: 30 Krones Upkeep: +10 Krones Reward: Possible Traits.
You train hard, you push yourself even beyond the limit of what they make you do at the academy, beyond what even your body allow you to, you learn to keep going even when your body want to give in, in many ways, you rediscover what you thought were the limits of the human body, your muscle become ever more toned, wrapping like steel cord around your form, and yet, you feel that you can push even further...
1 Turn remaining
-[X] Theresia military academy curriculum— For 3 years, you shall be trained in all matter of land warfare and soldiery, before graduating a with the grade of leutnant.
Time: 2 Turns
DC: Auto success/ 10 / 30/ 100 Cost: 500 Krones Reward: Possible traits, commission in the K.u.K.
You learn the soldiers life at the academy; discipline, training, shooting, tactics, strategy, everything you need on the field of battle, it is not so much hard as it is time consuming, all you prior preparations and natural talents allowing to advance relatively easily in the courses, not that you would ever relax your efforts anyways.
1 Turn Remaining
-[X] Spend time with your friends in the intelligentsia—You’ve made a numbers of friends in your little club of mathematicians, and even though you may be leaving after graduation to your posting, keeping those relation alive is always a plus since you enjoy spending time with them and talking about mathematics.
Time: 1 Turn
DC: 15 Cost: None Reward: Keeping contact with your friends.
-[X] Invitation into high society—Your book has propelled you from an almost unknown poor man from a working class family to a rather wealthy and famous author with great intellectuals capacity, the results are rather funny for you, considering your effort in regard to your brother matters in prior years, you’ve now been invited to participate in several events of high society to make yourselves known to the nobility and bourgeoisie, you are now officially “one of them” and as such they are interested in making your acquaintance.
Time: 1 Turn
DC: 60 Cost: 3000 Krones Reward: Increased social network. Bonus to Nobility rolls. Further investment options.
-[X] Spending money—You are now rich, and as such you have many more option on what to do with your money, from investing in company and real estate to buying a house for your family or giving money to charities.
Time: 1 Turns
DC: None Cost: None Reward: Open investments options.
-[X] Funding your brother—Being a politician and being a civil servant in the empire are quite similar things, and they both cost money, now that you have that money you could fund your brothers study and career, to help him advance in the ranks, you are sure he would be grateful.
Time: 1 Turns
DC: 20 Cost: 8000 Krones Reward: Bonus to your brother rolls.
-[X] Learn French – One of the most renowned languages in the world, French is a prestigious language that is looked up to amongst the upper class, learning could always be helpful.
Time: 1 Turn
DC: 20/40/70/100 Cost: None Reward: Varying degree of mastery of the French languages
[X] Help out at charities. – Another thing organized by the church; charity, giving alms and distributing blanket to poor people (well, poorer than you), and caring for them. It is good for the soul, to be kind to the less fortunate.
Time: 1 turn
DC: Autosuccess/30/70/100 Cost: None Reward: Increased relationship with priesthood and poor of Krakow. Meet people. Socialize. Possible New traits.
-[X] Double down; Allow you to add a +20 to a roll by spending another action on it.
--[X] Theresia military academy curriculum


Total Cost is 11,510 Krones

Need to start climbing the social ladder while we have our moment in spotlight. Maybe we'll get a good role on nobility interaction and get a title. Want to take double down on nobility interaction or military academy but feel like we need everything in this plan.

Edit: Added 2 more actions since I previously thought we only had 5.
 
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Golum936

Member
[X] Plan: Social Climb v2
-[X] Train your body – Your body is a gift from god, you are tall and your natural strength extraordinary, but you are nothing if not a perfectionist, and you believe you can do much better if you train yourself
Time: 2 Turns
DC: ?? Cost: 30 Krones Upkeep: +10 Krones Reward: Possible Traits.
You train hard, you push yourself even beyond the limit of what they make you do at the academy, beyond what even your body allow you to, you learn to keep going even when your body want to give in, in many ways, you rediscover what you thought were the limits of the human body, your muscle become ever more toned, wrapping like steel cord around your form, and yet, you feel that you can push even further...
1 Turn remaining
-[X] Theresia military academy curriculum— For 3 years, you shall be trained in all matter of land warfare and soldiery, before graduating a with the grade of leutnant.
Time: 2 Turns
DC: Auto success/ 10 / 30/ 100 Cost: 500 Krones Reward: Possible traits, commission in the K.u.K.
You learn the soldiers life at the academy; discipline, training, shooting, tactics, strategy, everything you need on the field of battle, it is not so much hard as it is time consuming, all you prior preparations and natural talents allowing to advance relatively easily in the courses, not that you would ever relax your efforts anyways.
1 Turn Remaining
-[X] Spend time with your friends in the intelligentsia—You’ve made a numbers of friends in your little club of mathematicians, and even though you may be leaving after graduation to your posting, keeping those relation alive is always a plus since you enjoy spending time with them and talking about mathematics.
Time: 1 Turn
DC: 15 Cost: None Reward: Keeping contact with your friends.
-[X] Invitation into high society—Your book has propelled you from an almost unknown poor man from a working class family to a rather wealthy and famous author with great intellectuals capacity, the results are rather funny for you, considering your effort in regard to your brother matters in prior years, you’ve now been invited to participate in several events of high society to make yourselves known to the nobility and bourgeoisie, you are now officially “one of them” and as such they are interested in making your acquaintance.
Time: 1 Turn
DC: 60 Cost: 3000 Krones Reward: Increased social network. Bonus to Nobility rolls. Further investment options.
-[X] Spending money—You are now rich, and as such you have many more option on what to do with your money, from investing in company and real estate to buying a house for your family or giving money to charities.
Time: 1 Turns
DC: None Cost: None Reward: Open investments options.
-[X] Funding your brother—Being a politician and being a civil servant in the empire are quite similar things, and they both cost money, now that you have that money you could fund your brothers study and career, to help him advance in the ranks, you are sure he would be grateful.
Time: 1 Turns
DC: 20 Cost: 8000 Krones Reward: Bonus to your brother rolls.
-[X] Learn French – One of the most renowned languages in the world, French is a prestigious language that is looked up to amongst the upper class, learning could always be helpful.
Time: 1 Turn
DC: 20/40/70/100 Cost: None Reward: Varying degree of mastery of the French languages
[X] Help out at charities. – Another thing organized by the church; charity, giving alms and distributing blanket to poor people (well, poorer than you), and caring for them. It is good for the soul, to be kind to the less fortunate.
Time: 1 turn
DC: Autosuccess/30/70/100 Cost: None Reward: Increased relationship with priesthood and poor of Krakow. Meet people. Socialize. Possible New traits.
-[X] Double down; Allow you to add a +20 to a roll by spending another action on it.
--[X] Theresia military academy curriculum


Total Cost is 11,510 Krones

Need to start climbing the social ladder while we have our moment in spotlight. Maybe we'll get a good role on nobility interaction and get a title. Want to take double down on nobility interaction or military academy but feel like we need everything in this plan.

Edit: Added 2 more actions since I previously thought we only had 5.
Edited my previously incomplete plan, see if it's something you might want to vote for.
 
Spending options

Arlos

Sad Monarchist
Spending money: 1 591 174 Krones



Investment option (3 Option max):



[] Real estate (Cities). This means investing in housing and renting it to inhabitants of Vienna. Low risk. Low reward.

-[] Small investment 40 000 Krones

-[] Moderate investment 100 000 Krones

-[] Heavy investment 250 000 Krones



[] Real estate (Rural). Investing in Farms, buying up land and having people work it before selling food on the market, income may vary depending on the food market. Low risk. Varying reward.

-[] Small investment 40 000 Krones

-[] Moderate investment 100 000 Krones

-[] Heavy investment 250 000 Krones



[] Investment in Railway service. Investing in Railways is expensive, a single Kilometers of railways cost around 60 000 Krones, the industry is heavily nationalized, with around 80% of railways belonging to the crown, and the Emperor always welcome investor, most of Cisleithania is already served by a very developed railways with Vienna as its heart, but there is still potential for development, as the northern part of the country, Galicia, is greatly lacking in railways, unfortunately, building railways is time consuming, and you need enough investments to actually link destinations before you profit. Low Risk. High Reward. Money and time sink.

-[] Small investment 300 000 Krones (5 Km)

-[] Moderate investment 600 000 Krones (10 Km)

-[] Heavy investment 1 200 000 Krones (20 Km)



[] Invest in Heavy industry. Mining, metallurgy, automobile, chemicals, machine manufacturing. It requires a large amount of capital in order to be profitable, but it give a lot of physical capital and is appreciated by high society enough to give some political leverage. It is also less susceptible to the whim of the market then light industry. Average risk. High reward.

-[] Small investment 200 000 Krones

-[] Moderate investment 450 000 Krones

-[] Heavy investment 1 000 000



[] Invest in Armaments industry. Austria-Hungary is one of the Great powers of the world, and it has the Armaments industry to match, as one of the premier arms producers in the world, there is always money to be made from the Weapons industry. Low risk. High reward.

-[] Small investment 200 000 Krones

-[] Moderate investment 450 000 Krones

-[] Heavy investment 1 000 000 Krones



[] Invest in light industry. Manufacturing of clothes, production of furniture, lightbulbs etc… Moderate risk. Low reward.

-[] Small investment 200 000 Krones

-[] Moderate investment 450 000 Krones

-[] Heavy investment 1 000 000 Krones



[] Write-in







Pure Spending:



[] Buy a Family house in Vienna. Now that you are rich, you could buy a House in Vienna, that would save your family some money on rent and give you hard saving in the form of a house. While you won’t benefit from it personally because of military life, it would help protect your parents and give you brother a respectable house to show to others.

-[] Budget?

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A small manor in the suburb of Vienna like this one would cost you around 160K Krones, with an upkeep of around 30k Krones per turn, staff included.




[] Give money to charities.

-[] Church. They take care of the poor, and the destitute.

-[] Red cross. The red cross primary role is to take care of military wounded from all countries.

-[] Order of Malta. Fulfill a similar role as the red cross.

-[] Write-in

-[] How much?



[] Give money to family. Your family could use money to live.

-[] To who?

--[] How much?



[] Donation to the State. It’s a thing, giving money to the country with no string attached, it can help you gather goodwill from officials and noble alike.

-[] How much?



[] Write-in
 

Blasterbot

Well-known member
[X] plan industrialization
-[X] Investment in Railway service. Investing in Railways is expensive, a single Kilometers of railways cost around 60 000 Krones, the industry is heavily nationalized, with around 80% of railways belonging to the crown, and the Emperor always welcome investor, most of Cisleithania is already served by a very developed railways with Vienna as its heart, but there is still potential for development, as the northern part of the country, Galicia, is greatly lacking in railways, unfortunately, building railways is time consuming, and you need enough investments to actually link destinations before you profit. Low Risk. High Reward. Money and time sink.
--[X] Moderate investment 600 000 Krones (10 Km)
-[X] Invest in Heavy industry. Mining, metallurgy, automobile, chemicals, machine manufacturing. It requires a large amount of capital in order to be profitable, but it give a lot of physical capital and is appreciated by high society enough to give some political leverage. It is also less susceptible to the whim of the market then light industry. Average risk. High reward.
--[X] Moderate investment 450 000 Krones
-[X] Buy a Family house in Vienna. Now that you are rich, you could buy a House in Vienna, that would save your family some money on rent and give you hard saving in the form of a house. While you won’t benefit from it personally because of military life, it would help protect your parents and give you brother a respectable house to show to others.
--[X] Budget 200,000
-[X] Give money to family. Your family could use money to live.
--[X] To who? Parents
---[X] How much? 70,000
--[X] To who? Brother
---[X] How much? 70,000
-[X] Give money to charities.
--[X] Church. They take care of the poor, and the destitute.
---[X] 70,000
--[X] Red cross. The red cross primary role is to take care of military wounded from all countries.
---[X] 70,000
61,174 remaining gives us 2 turns of upkeep factoring in the home's likely cost without any income. rail is safe long term investment. industry is a bit riskier but has solid potential pay off. mom and dad can likely retire. brother has a solid amount as he gets his career underway. bit of money to charities too.
 

tri2

Well-known member
wait wait wiat, what is our current income per turn? we need to make sure we can actually afford said 30K upkeep if we fail to make any more money short term wise, plus family is a poor family, not think they would be too comfortable in something so big and with strangers walking around. maybe something half the size?
 

Arlos

Sad Monarchist
wait wait wiat, what is our current income per turn? we need to make sure we can actually afford said 30K upkeep if we fail to make any more money short term wise, plus family is a poor family, not think they would be too comfortable in something so big and with strangers walking around. maybe something half the size?
You will still get income from your book, it will probably give you an ever smaller income for the next 3-4 Turns before stabilizing at a few thousands per turn.
On top of that, even if you don’t really get what you paid for in investments just yet, you will probably still get some dividend from owning share in companies.
but still, it’s investments, there is always a risk.
 

Blasterbot

Well-known member
wait wait wiat, what is our current income per turn? we need to make sure we can actually afford said 30K upkeep if we fail to make any more money short term wise, plus family is a poor family, not think they would be too comfortable in something so big and with strangers walking around. maybe something half the size?
plan includes 2 turns of upkeep so that is 2 years. we also get paid by the military once we graduate. if we don't think we have enough we can put more actions into earning more money. keep in mind our brother will also be living there and using it to impress people. house serves as helping parents, helping brother's career, and a solid non liquid asset.
 

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