Paying consumption?

[gordbond]

In my Kingmaker game my players have built a big kingdom and we have been plodding along for a year now with it but my question is this.

In the first phase of the kingdom building phase you have determin stability then you have Pay comsuption.

When you pay comsuption do they take money out of the tresery to pay for it or not.

They start the month with say 156bp, they have 54 hexes, and 27 farms. When they pay for comsuption do they have to pay 54 bp for food or do they pay 0 (beacause the 27 farms produce 54 food for them).

it jsut accorded to me and i wanted to check you the forum here to get the right answer.

[Brian Bachman]

gordbond wrote:

In my Kingmaker game my players have built a big kingdom and we have been plodding along for a year now with it but my question is this.

In the first phase of the kingdom building phase you have determin stability then you have Pay comsuption.

When you pay comsuption do they take money out of the tresery to pay for it or not.

They start the month with say 156bp, they have 54 hexes, and 27 farms. When they pay for comsuption do they have to pay 54 bp for food or do they pay 0 (beacause the 27 farms produce 54 food for them).

it jsut accorded to me and i wanted to check you the forum here to get the right answer.

Don't have my rules in front of me right now, but I believe your total consumption is equal to what your kingdom consumes (hexes, city districts and armies) minus what your kingsom produces (farms, and if you use the widely used optional rules, mines and hunting/fishing/logging camps.) So, if your base consumption is balanced with your production, your net consumption will be 0.

[KaeYoss]

Farms offset consumption. You never have to pay that consumption. It's not there any more.

[Ogwar]

KaeYoss is correct, the way we do it is subtract "farmland production" from the consumption owed. From the AP:

Quote:

Every farmland hex in your kingdom reduces your Consumption by 2 BP

... so 27 farmlands would reduce your consumption by 54BP and your consumption would be 0.

[Alexander Kilcoyne]

Close, but incorrect. Each city district also adds one consumption, so 54 hexes with 27 of them farmed would be Consumption=0+number of city districts.

[gordbond]

great thanks guys that helps. You know when you get a through in your head and it stuffs up your view on teh rule you know.