Okay... so page 461 of the Core Rulebook states that, when randomly determining the available magic items for the magic item slots in a given settlement, one should:
Reroll any items that fall below the community's base value.
However, such a statement is left out of the Kingmaker Kingdom Building Rules. However, it's pretty clear to me that the intent of the Kingmaker rules are to mimic the magic item availability rules for Pathfinder (IE, 75% if the item is of the base value or lower, otherwise check the magic item slots.) So the question (And I'm leaning towards 'yes' on this one):
Are we, in the context of Kingmaker settlements, supposed to be rerolling magic items that come up as lower than the base value of the given settlement?
(While I don't belong to that group of players that believes the magic item economy completely wrecks Kingmaker, I can see why having a race to building your city's base value up to 4,000 gp might get annoying, in that now all cities automatically produce at least 2 BP per turn. So I could see this being a problem, I'm just curious what everyone's interpretation might be, and what the original intent was, if the designers care to comment.)
Well, given that a magic item worth less than the base value is available 75% of the time, I reroll anything that I randomly generate 75% of the time if it comes in under the base value.
Of course, I only award 0/1/2 BP for minor/medium/major item sales and it's been working out great. The re-rolling encourages the players to increase the city's base value and end up with more useful items in those minor item slots now that they're higher level (8th currently).
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Are we, in the context of Kingmaker settlements, supposed to be rerolling magic items that come up as lower than the base value of the given settlement?
That would make perfect sense! It would seem odd that this little kingdom in the middle of nowhere is the only place on the planet that is cranking out items that are way above its capabilities. ;D