Eh, gonna have to soft disagree.
Its got a lot of those same elements, but you have a character that is only at one spot at a time, and so that limits how elective you can be at the expansion part.
That said, it is also not a typical RPG where you have just a character adventuring across the land. Really unique game in that its a bridge between those two broad genres.
Its honestly a very small facet of the game, and more so used to bootstrap your company/Army's finances until you gain lordship of towns and cities (and thus collect rents).
But to try to explain how it comes together anyway:
So towns specialize in producing a single type of raw resource (grain, ore, grapes, sheep, etc) and they sell those goods mainly to a single city. A city will have 2-4 towns "feeding" it resources, and so if a city has 3 towns that bring it grain, then you'd expect the grain price to be cheaper than in a city who's towns produce ore.
Next level, if you have two neighboring towns one producing ore and one with grain, chances are there will be a stable (and relatively low) grain price in both with reasonably high population (pop growth is primarily boosted by excess food). Imagine now an enemy army rolls up and burns all the grain towns and seiges the grain city (traders can't enter a sieged city). After a week, this would lead to MUCH less grain in the ore city, thus prices spike.
So you, an enterprising new player with a dozen men and some spare horses, load up with cheap grain from somewhere else on the map and make a run to the ore city, selling grain at an inflated price.
Again, this general strat is good for bootstrapping the money to build a medium warband, but generally falls away as a viable source of income once you leave there early game.
Bonus factoids cause I've got time to kill: The game is very open ended. If you just want to be a merchant, well, I suppose no ones stopping you. But the course of action you're nudged towards is to raise a warband and join (or build) a faction and ~~conquer~~ unite all the cities under one banner.
With that, I'd define the goals/stages of the game as:
Early: building a small company big enough to be helpful to you faction when fighting alongside other lords. Goal here is to buy a few workshops inside your own faction's lands (which grant passive income).
Mid-game: you're working to build a fighting force that can solo other mid-large forces, while obtaining / managing a city or two for your kingdom (this is where you manually trading starts to not yield enough income to keep your army paid). Goal is to become a significant political player in your faction and to gain as many cities as you can for yourself.
Endgame: by this point, you should be leading a faction. For combat, you're gathering multiple vassals into large army's to take key enemy cities. You're managing the wars that spring up and determining which vassals get which cities. This is where you can finally make real territorial gains for your people.
I was wondering what happened with this the other day (haven't kept up with XKCD since highschool).
It makes me happy that they're both still here.
You wanna look under Retirement Under FERS > Retirement with a deferred, full pension
Edit: god that document is a pain in the ass to read and comprehend. Looks like it was designed to answer specific questions (vs getting a holistic view of the retirement program)
Henry - Kingdom Come: Deliverance (can be played morally grey, but mostly defaults to goodly choices)
Ratchet - Ratchet and Clank series (I haven't played the last ~3 games, so this may have changed)
Spider-Man - uh, the Spiderman games (feels wrong to say he's from a game, which probably means I'm stretching).
Really interesting thought exercise, surprisingly difficult.
I've never been aware of Thomas Jefferson being into women in that age range. Can you expand on that / pass resources for further research?
Asking primarily because I tend to favor Jefferson among the founding fathers. I'd be very disappointed if he was actually into.....that. But want to be sure I have an accurate picture of historical figures.
This is something that has always bothered me about roadkill animals (esp deer which are particularly prevalent as roadkill in my area).
Its my understanding that the hide can remain in good and usable condition for days to weeks after the animal's death. It seems that this could be a decent source of blankets and other light-medium cold weather gear.
I'd imagine it largely comes down to the skinning process. The internal organs of dead animals are supposed to get real gross real fast (and that's in the best case scenario - if anything ruptured when they were hit, then the grossness increasing exponentially) and removing those is the first step towards skinning. Additionally, everything in harvesting the hide would need to be done by hand.
But boy, if we could build one of those Boston dynamics bots to do it.....
Can't decide how I'd feel about this.
On one hand, they'd probably ruin the scenic ocean views from Mar-a-lago. On the other, the owners would probably make a tom (more) money off it.
I feel the same.
While not good feels when it rolled out, its not like that's come up since (at least not that I've heard).
There are other things to object about Proton (rolling out a bitcoin wallet and focusing on AI over getting their current products up to par with their competitors), but, like this feels like a giant nothing burger people overly focus on.
Naw, just classic moving the goal posts. (I hate that as I type this and listen to video in background that he said basically my same line).
Link to the story (I only read ~25% of article since it matched with my recollection of events)
I leave it as an exercise for you to determine the level of hyperbole your respondee was using.
Saw it was a woman who broke the record and was hoping she broke the all time record. Turns out its just the record for women.
Still cool stuff - I can barely finish a mile without the suit as fast as she did.
Edit: spelling