2 printing houses?

[Whitney]

I just got hit with a second printing house offer from Tristan. Searching online, there is a different between them.

Linzi is for books, while Gault (Tristan) is for newspapers.

Like really! It is not like we got a lot space to build things. The kingdom management system sucks as is; I don't want to spend too much time figuring it out. (LoL, I just spent 5 hours searching, reading, and trying it out... it is worst than SimCity 101)

Please kindly provide me any hints if possible.

[Nachtmeister]

Just get them both.

[The.Spaz.]

Originally posted by Whitney:

I just got hit with a second printing house offer from Tristan. Searching online, there is a different between them.

Linzi is for books, while Gault (Tristan) is for newspapers.

Like really! It is not like we got a lot space to build things. The kingdom management system sucks as is; I don't want to spend too much time figuring it out. (LoL, I just spent 5 hours searching, reading, and trying it out... it is worst than SimCity 101)

Please kindly provide me any hints if possible.

Oh you poor bastard! I am closer to the final act but I can tell you that you should really prepare to spend a god forsaken amount of time in that abomination of sime since it GORVERNS ALL!!! Also if something is offered for free get it, you HAVE to ensure you are maxed out on every rank by the end of the game. That is if you choose to suffer, you can simply put it on effortless mode and just ignore the damn thing whole sale. Likely a better option from where I am standing.

[Radiac]

I realize this is asking for spoilers, but what does getting all of your stats to 200 do for you, ultimately? I think all of mine are like 250 now (I'm level 17, just defeated the Spawn of Rovagug, and am using mods for Kingdom Management).

[The.Spaz.]

Originally posted by Radiac:

I realize this is asking for spoilers, but what does getting all of your stats to 200 do for you, ultimately? I think all of mine are like 250 now (I'm level 17, just defeated the Spawn of Rovagug, and am using mods for Kingdom Management).

Frankly I got no idea. I am well past the Rovagug point. Still lev 16 and most of my kingdom stats are close or past 300. Although my advisors need quite the bit of ranking. Ranking up helps with the KM events and oppurtunities but as far as the stat value goes I am not sure what it does for you.

[forkofspite]

* Some late-game projects can offer bonuses based on an actual kingdom stat value. None are important.

* Only need 180 points to reach the maximum rank.

* Failing to reach maximum ranks might affect the epilogue slides. Also, during the game, some artisan levels depend on kingdom ranks. (edit: In my first completed game, I only reached Rank 5 for espionage, so it's definitely not essential to reach maximum ranks in everything.)


As for the OP ...

* The printing houses are just buildings. If they're free, no reason not to build them if you have room.

[jsaving]

The main thing to know about buildings is that it's almost always a bad decision to purchase very many of them. If your slots are full then you're grossly overinvesting in that part of the game.

As to the in-game benefit of reaching 200 in all kingdom stats: there is none, except for the joy of hearing about your kingdom's strong sense of loyalty, community, etc in endgame slides.

Build every artisan shop you can, build 6 buildings per village so you can upgrade some of them to towns, and get to divine 60 arcane 40 as quickly as you can to unlock teleportation circles. Those are the main things to worry about as far as buildings are concerned.

[Whitney]

Thanks everyone! Looking at the limited amount of plots available, while some buildings take up 2 slots; all the while, you cannot place them in the upright position; you simply have do the best you can with the limited amount of spaces.

However, I am not sure I would build a Fort in the capital at the moment; in other town, I will build the Fort for bonuses.

[Radiac]

I would add that it is important to place the various artisans' shops in places villages that you intend to upgrade to towns, or in places that are already towns. I assume they don't make the really good items without that shop upgrade you get from having them in a town.

[forkofspite]

Originally posted by Radiac:

I assume they don't make the really good items without that shop upgrade you get from having them in a town.

Upgrading artisan shops will help, but it's not necessary - at least, not for all of them. Think I got all of the masterpieces in my second completed run through the game.

The following wiki site gives a reasonable explanation for the artisans. I can't verify any of the details, but it seems correct to me.

https://pathfinderkingmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Artisans

[Whitney]

Originally posted by Radiac:

I would add that it is important to place the various artisans' shops in places villages that you intend to upgrade to towns, or in places that are already towns. I assume they don't make the really good items without that shop upgrade you get from having them in a town.

You mean that I could actually move their shop to another location; their shop location is not fixed with their origin?!?

[forkofspite]

Artisan shops are fixed to that region's settlement. However, if you upgrade that settlement to a town, you an also upgrade the artisan shop(s).