How many of you took the deal with the Restov Builder's Guild?

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... And how many of you thought it was a mistake?

[EvilDonut]

I did....the first time. And again, i did.

I did not think the mayor would be such a bastard, lol.

[Space]

Yeah, I'm going to stick with the choice. 500 seems like a lot early hell of a boost, plus the +4 economy as well..

I may skip it second time around though, oof!

[Sunny]

I did it and later you have a Project to solve the unfairness of the trade.

[TEMPIEST]

I did not took it the first time and neither the second. He lost a expensive bottle of wine gambling against me, that is a red alert for me.

[Whitman1855]

I went with it with one character, because I saw online that the mayor is neutral good... lol

[Balkoth]

Knowing full well that deals like that usually are awful I avoided it like a plague.

I have enough school loans thank you very much XD

[For_Science!]

You can take the deal and then turn the tables on the mayor pretty effectively, though.

BP are used both for buildings and for expansion, and the deal specifies that you will pay extra only for buildings. So don't accept the deal at first, and put all your own BP into buildings. Feel free to overextend yourself on buildings and neglect territory expansions.

Then, when you've build all the buildings you need for quite a while (and hopefully exhausted your own BP), accept the Restov deal, and throw those 500 new BP into expansion, which you won't be charged extra for.

Granted, eventually you need to shift focus back to buildings, but by then you might have the project which renegotiates the deal. And Restov will have gotten a much worse bargain than they imagined.

[fluxtorrent]

yeah net gain of about 400bp for me after all said and done

[Straybow]

Exclusivity you say, yeahnah.

[Alan Sylver]

Originally posted by For_Science!:

You can take the deal and then turn the tables on the mayor pretty effectively, though.

Then, when you've build all the buildings you need for quite a while (and hopefully exhausted your own BP), accept the Restov deal, and throw those 500 new BP into expansion, which you won't be charged extra for.

How do I accept the deal after I turned it down during the banquet?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Once just to see what happend.
When i heard: You have to agree to have all buildings get be build by us.
I instantly thought:
Free money now, more cost later.
Really could you be more obvious you slimly basterd.

Real real life has made me far to cynical to trust to word of anyone.
Any anyone who is succesfull in politic's is a master lying basterd by trade.

As the saying goes:
Countries dont have friends.
They have interests.

Always look at politic's from the standpoint of what they have to gain or lose and alot of wierd actions start to make sense.

[DEADPOO]

That slimy crook, he charges you loan shark interests.

[Shadenuat]

Do not trust The Merchant's Guild.

[Azunai]

i took that deal and i wasn't surprised at all that it came with a downside. guess it was a net gain overall, but that's mostly down to RNG to be honest.

the mission to remove the 25% extra costs takes 90 days and you can lose a lot of points during that time from problems (or lost opportunities) that only your tied up treasurer could have tackled.

would probably take the loan again.

[Alan Sylver]

Originally posted by Shadenuat:

Do not trust The Merchant's Guild.

You don't need to trust if you are better prepared. The idea from For_Science! sounds good, but again - how do I accept the deal if I initially turned it down?