Note 1: Figured I may as well go back to this route since it worked in Mad Muad and saves me the effort of transforming every idle comment into Court Gossip text, though I will comment in-game that way, have to keep the Gossip heavy so its non-obvious when player's are doing it As before, its rarely 'vital info' in these but worth scanning, I just don't put much effort into formatting or formalizing so they tend to be a bit rambling.

Obviously I was of the opinion that initial starting funds were insufficient which is the main reason for the cash influx, given a choice between a formal last minute change and using it as a route to get Players Votes in use I chose the latter. It is my lose belief that someone's final round 1 income plus starting wealth should be equal, on average, not more than double the sum of MinBids from rounds 1 and 2... for the curious, I can't give an exact figure without revealing any player's own auction should someone auction off something they don't want this round, but the total MinBid for Round 1 is under 50,000 MS or 50 GS, 1 GS=1000MS, I retired the GS from the rules to avoid confusion but I think 50 GS is less confusing then 50k MS (fifty kilo-mega-solaris) so I will tend to use GS when discussing big player totals, even if it never gets used by me in any formal notes.

Round 1 and 2 should have a combined MinBid of ~100 GS. Player wealth, including the 2 GS/player disbursement, is currently 88 GS and income is 30 GS with about another 10 GS income in assets up for bid this round. 88+40 <200 GS, so clearly not enough cash was disbursed, expect additional cash dumps obviously, but not this round, probably some 30-40 GS disbursed in round 2 and another 10-20 in round 3. This is actually because I screwed up the goals, setting the bar a bit high, and had to increase the probability of items hitting the market, meaning an imbalance in max troop size, meaning a flood of militia (and there are some unassigned in the late round, little freebie clue), blasted game mechanics wobble like jello, by my current projections average income based on expected assets and total spending should be roughly 8 GS at the end of round 2, meaning most players would have 8-10 GS to spend on Auctions in round 3, when for a 7 player game approx 60-70 GS of stuff will be available for purchase at MinBid, presumed cost of around 100 GS, or 30-40 GS shortfall, continuing to a lesser degree each round till Average Income rises above 12 GS. A dilemma, one might say, which I will likely address via a mixture of semi-random methods, as simply increasing starting wealth does not strictly correct this shortfall, in of itself, most likely the fix will be to increase initial assets of factions for next game and adjust starting wealth to be double your income plus 2d6x100 (always need a random value or players can start making some serious calculations and figure out who people are). I will also like adjust starting legions to be C+3 instead of CC, though with increased assets that might become C+5 or something instead. AN alternative route is to simply give people more Stock, since giving them more assets would ease the tension off the goals which was the whole problem that caused the increase in auctioned assets, but this has problems too... I expect to have a better idea after seeing a game played out. Most likely I'll just leave a player vote around mid-to-late game permitting increased maximum troops, force out more militia through Mod Choice auction selections, and just dump money in through convenient flavor incidents, probably 4 GS in round 2, 3 in round 3, 2 in round 4, and 1 in round 5, or 10 GS total. I will likely do 1 GS of this each round through a (2d6+Diplo)x100 'fundraising party' each round and other flavor based largess. Which reminds me I need to fix that, I think the current one says 1d6+D, DK has me distracted with Space-Money and Money Space which I assume is like Hammer Space and possibly makes sense since the Guild controls all the banks and they can fold space.