There are lots of resources to manage in the strategy classic 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stronghold Crusader, but often battles are won and lost by gold. Most of the game's important buildings, not to mention every military unit, cos🌺ts gold, so if the treasury runs dry you'll need to come up🦩 with a solution, and fast.

Whether you're new to the game or returning with the release of the Definitive Edition, this guide will take you through everything you need to know to keep the gold flowing, from managing workers and production to actually collecꦑting income.

Taxes And Peasants

Your main source of gold in Stronghold Crusader is from taxation; you can set your tax rate with the slider that appears when you select your Keep. Each peasant (but not soldier) living in your fortress pays taxes every month, whether they are currently assigned to a workplace or not; therefore, the higher your population, the more taxes you will collect as time passes.

Your tax rate is set﷽ to zero at the start of a new game; you won't start collecting any income until you change it, but the accompanying Popularity penalty means it's usually worth relying on your starting funds to establish a basic resource economy first.

Raising taxes, even a little bit, will reduce your overall Popularity. This means that unless you have other ways to keep your Popularity positive (or at least neutral), it will fall every month. This isn't a problem until it gets below 50, but once that happens it can be hard to fix. See below for more information on Popularity and how it affects your stronghold; the short version is, if you raise taxes, have some way to keep the people happy to make up for it.

Alms For The Poor

You can also set your tax rate to be negative, distributing gold to the people instead of taking it from them. Like raising taxes, the cost each month scales with your total peasant population. Handing out alms raises your Popularity, making ജit 🍸a powerful (if expensive) short-term fix for an unhappy workforce.

Whether you're taking money or giving it away, the impact on Popularity grows with the amount taxed or distributed. Higher taxes ♊mean lower Popularity, while bigger donations mean more Popularity.

Popularity And Population

Your Popularity has a direct effect on the population of your stronghold. If you're popular (with a total Popularity above 50), your population will steadily grow until it reaches the housing limit. If you're unpopular (with a total Popularity of 50 or less), peasants will abandon your settlement until their problems are addressed...💧 or there's nobody left.

It doesn't technically matter how far above or below 50 your Popularity is; growth or decline happens at the same rate, though having a Popularity near 100 gives you more grace for emergency measures like half rations or higher taxes. By the same token, it w🧜ill take a lot longer to claw you𒉰r way back from a Popularity of, say, 10 than it would from 45.

You can hover over the campfire by the Keep to see the current growth or decline; a ring will appear, filling up either green or red. If it's completely green, a new peasant will appear if there is housing available; you can build new Hovels to make room, but remember that doing so will increase your needs for food, religion, and ale. If it's completely red, a peasant will leave.

If there is no workplace currently available, new peasants will wait at the campfire until there is one. They'll eat food, drink ale, and pay taxes while doing so, and they can also be recruited at the Barracks, Mercenary Post, or other military buildings. Since soldiers are not considered part of your population, they'll𒁃 stop consuming goods once they join the army, and a new peasant will soon take their place🤪 at the campfire.

You should always have at least aღ few idle peasant꧅s ready to be conscripted.

Popularity Factors

The following things will contribute to your popularity. Use them to keep people happy, and you'll☂ be 🔯able to get away with raising taxes higher and higher.

Resources And Storage

Keeping a content workforce is one thing, but you also need to make sure they can do their jobs effectively. That's why efficient layouts and use of storage is so important in Stronghold Crusader.

Workers need to travel to and from their workplaces, and also pick up and deliver goods. The less distance they have to travel, the more efficient your f🌜ortress will be.

A lot can depend on the individual map you're playing on; if the only sources of stone and iron are on the other side of the region from your Keep,൩ there isn't much you can do about that except adapt to the situation.

There are three main storage buildings; the granary, stockyard, and armory. Each can be expanded to create more space, but only adjacent to the existing structure; that means that once these three key buildings are in place, they will form the central hubs for resources for the rest of the game.

• The granary stores finished food items; if it's edible, it goes in the granary.
• The armory stores weapons, armor, and shields.
• The stockyard stores everything else, meaning it's the most likely to fill up and need expansion throughout the game.

If you have control over where they go (which isn't a given on every map), it can be useful to space out these three buildings, essentially c✤reating districts within your settlement. That way, there's room for all your industries to grow, and people don't have to walk very far. For example, a row of bowyers, tanners, and blacksmiths separating the stocky✤ard from the armory can easily reach both, picking up raw materials from the stockyard and dropping off finished gear at the armory.

Notable Resources And Buildings

Most buildings just require one or more workers to arrive, produce a resource, and 🍎bring it back, but a few have extra rules. For example:

• Stone quarries must have a nearby ox tether to transport the stone to the stockyard. Quarry workers bring the stone to the tether, then the ox brings the entire load to the main storage.
• Hop fields must be harvested quickly or they'll become infested with weevils. If this happens, the field must be deleted and rebuilt by clicking the X to the right of the info banner at the bottom of the screen.
• Dairy farms produce cows until they have three, then produce cheese. If you have tanners active, they will occasionally take cows to be slaughtered for hides, slowing cheese production.
• A single wheat field can supply a flour mill and two to three bakeries. This takes more workers and time, but produces more food overall than any other food production chain.

Buying🌺 or selling resource♏s at the Market is always a useful way to get out of a jam, but the availability of goods differs from map to map. Consider producing some goods in large quantities just to sell, so you're never without plenty of gold.