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Alms for the Poor
« Topic Start: February 07, 2019, 08:12:52 PM »
Posting this on behalf of Fitz Roberts family.

Title: Alms for the Poor

Summary: another way to boost morale in regions and boost your own prestige

Details: In a similar way to holding court, festivals or heroes telling tales, it would increase morale in a region, but in this case through a direct monetary donation. Depending on how much money is spent, morale goes up. The higher morale already is, the less of an effect it has as there isn't enough unhappy paupers to make much of a difference. Additionally, if you do it enough over time you gain prestige, in a similar way to doing courtier work

Benefits: would add a new dimension to improving morale in regions and give a use for excess gold. Also, is just an interesting concept that adds flavour.
Possible downsides: might take away from courtiers, so would need to be less effective than them unless it was huge amounts of gold. Possible exploit is people whose city is starving and no one will sell them food could use it to increase morale and prevent revolts

it's not a big change, but given how important the giving of alms was in medieval society, it would be interesting
might be important to have limits as well: only 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 donations possible or something