“Let’s see what other changes occurred due to the age advancement. Mia?”
[Understood!](Mia)
“Others?”- I asked unsure
[Michael, they are probably the tools and weapons we deposited in the warehouse.](Alexa)
[Correct! There are 100 axes, 100 pickaxes, 100 hammers, 100 shovels, 100 spears and 100 knives. The other 300 units are probably made of carts, thresh, or spares for the previously mentioned ones.](Mia)
“I see… we have bolstered our tools quite a bit given the sparse materials and tech available. We should have Denise do an inventory check…”
[Understood! Should I bring up the next tab?](Mia)
Looking at the curious girls, I realized that changes might have occurred with Mia’s personality. If an AI becomes more humane, would that be a good or a bad thing?
“Sure… Bring up the Social Policies.”
“The Tradition reform seems to have been truly unlocked, so we might be able to see the branching policies available under it. Mia, if you’d please…”
[Acknowledged!](Mia)
[If these options are available, would the order big sister mentioned regarding the social reforms change?](Alexa)
Mia turned her head and looked at me for an answer. I was unsure… Let us just decide as always, after all other information has been acquired. For that, I needed to have the description of each one of those branching policies.
“Mia, let’s see each option before deciding.”
[Indeed, that is the best course of action. I will proceed then!](Mia)
I took a deep breath and felt a headache brewing. Just as Alexandra said, the order in which we should pick the policies and the reforms might change. Is it worth it though? While it might be worth it early on to get Oligarchy instead of Liberalism, all in order to get the Monument built up, it is a two way street.
“This… is tricky…”
[Michael, what should we do?](Mia)
[What do you mean big sister?](Alexa)
[Now that we have a production of 5 Culture Points per day and the option of increasing it with another two though picking Oligarchy, Michael is not sure which option should we pick…](Mia)
“What’s your take on this matter Mia?”
[There are pros and cons… For example, the major pros are the fact that we will have an early on boost of points that will allow us to pick more policies and faster. In addition, we can save up the building time and possibly, the resources required for the Monument. The major cons consist of breaking the previous order and even more important, we will chose to forsake the Liberalism reform this time. That might mean forsaking other branching policies that might be even better once the reform is unlocked. Not to mention, there is a list of available cultural buildings on which only the Library currently shows. Nevertheless, what if in the future better buildings are available? Some that cost even more or has a higher requirement?](Mia)
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[I see… Big sister is right, is quite hard to pick between the two options…](Alexa)
“Not really… Thank you Mia! Thank you Alexa! You just made my decision way easier than I thought it would be. We’ll go like we planned in the beginning!”
[You mean…](Alexa)
“Is not good to trip ourselves with short term gains and is better to make a decision after having all the information available about the options. Mia, you can make the honors!”
[Acknowledged! Selecting Liberalism reform… Requesting confirmation…](Mia)
“Don’t tell me I can finally see the happiness thing I kept being reminded of so many times so far…”
[I think that is the case Michael! Look on the main interface… there is a new ‘tab’.](Alexa)
And indeed, just like Alexandra pointed out, a new field became available to be viewed on the main interface showing People’s sentiment. This time I didn’t bother Mia with it and took action myself, bringing up the description for us three to check. The results…
Well… at least now I have a way to quantify the happiness, security and others… Also, there’s that ‘Golden Week’ thingy… 100% increase to everything from culture points, to research points, faith and even soul points gain… I simply need to decrease the Unhappiness stat and I should get a huge boost for those entire seven days. Also, I can simply wait another three weeks or so and I will automatically have enough points to start it either way.
“What about the newly unlocked Liberalism policies?”
[Can I bring it up this time?](Alexa)
“… ╮(╯▽╰)╭ ...”
[You just need to gesture towards the Liberalism tab and tap gently on it. It will automatically bring up the options available. Then, you touch each branching policy and it will bring it up in front of us. Go ahead!](Mia)
[S..sure! Let’s see… first gesture! Oooh! It worked! It worked big sister!](Alexa)
[Hehe! Good for you! Go on with the next step!](Mia)
[Yes! Next… tap on it gently and again on the branching policies! There are also five like in the case of the Traditionalism reform!](Alexa)
It was somewhat cute and I am glad I decided to involve Alexandra more in things such as this one. Not only will I be able to gain her complete trust that way, but also I might be able to throw some responsibility her way. Having both her and Mia take up the administrative work will certainly decrease the things I need to worry about.
Remembering what Reaper said about how I need to increase both my Tier and my divinity rank and thinking of the second continent, I suddenly began feeling a sense of urgency…
I sighed and tried to focus on the pop-ups in front of me.
Now I could finally feel the headache I previously felt brewing… Aren’t each one of this policies pure gold? Seems like I was right when I said that a reform that was very stingy with its initial boost, would be quite generous with its policies.
10% decrease in production points required for buildings? That is literally one day less of work for the building unit. Moreover, if that was not enough, I can force a class change to ‘Builder’ for one elf and then promote it to a Great Person, using the Soul Upgrade miracle. Then, to make it even better, I can increase the Happiness value, while decreasing the Unhappiness one, which will automatically push me faster towards the Golden age and if not, I can directly pick Representation to instantly start a Golden Age. For a week, I can directly boost my Culture Points to 12 per day, meaning that I can much easier improve my progression rate.
Then there is Collective Rule… It seems like I could start a new settlement and I should focus on its creation ASAP, but I have nowhere near enough population for it.
“We need to make some babies… ASAP!”
[[…(⊙﹏⊙)… ]](Mia)(Alexa)
Okay... Maybe I could have phrased that better, but the main point still stands. I need to make sure during the upcoming festival all elven girls remain pregnant…
“I mean that we need more elves… We can barely hang on given our situation, so we need more helping hands. Leaving that aside for now, Mia, Alexandra? What’s your take regarding what should we focus on after the Liberalism reform?”
[While I find most of the new unlocked social policies very attractive, I still think we should focus on the order we decided on previously and get the Military reform next.](Mia)
[I agree. Also, since it says in the description of it that we can get more points by killing monsters; we should also wait until we completely researched the Military reform, before the next expedition. Since the next policy has a cost of 43 Culture Points we only need to wait seven more days from tomorrow onward and we can start the second expedition then.](Alex)
[I also agree Michael. In doing so, we will have more workforces available for buildings and we can focus on smelting ores. In the best-case scenario, you can face the first floor of the dungeon with better weapons and armors. Worst-case scenario, you delay the attack by seven days. I cannot see any negative impact from it.](Mia)
“Hmm… you two might be right. We can also have some fight practice done in those seven days, meaning that the dungeon diving unit will be more prepared. Also, in that case, we should try and build up the Barracks if the Metal Casting tech becomes available. The extra experience would be great. Speaking of which, let us take a look at the available technologies to be researched and let’s go to sleep. Is quite late…”
[Understood!](Mia)
[All right!](Alexa)
