For the East area of the Territory, she planned to take the industrial and production route.
She built ten more farm villas in their 'neighborhood', as well as 200 more fields. Althea immediately 'rented' 50 farms for her own use.
He-he.
There was no need for the 'territory' to own fields because the taxes alone were enough to keep her warehouse stocked. It was so stocked that the upgrade condition—90% occupancy, ⅓ of the same item—was met quite easily.
[Would you like to upgrade Warehouse (Lv1) to Warehouse (Lv2)?
Area: 500 square meter, 6 meters height
New Functions: Automatic inventory function and automatic sorting. 100 copper per sorting
Cost: 300 wood, 200 stone, 500 gold]
She sighed. She clearly remembered the gold and wood required before was only 100 each, and no stone requirement.
It seemed that upgrading any building time was universally much more expensive than buying its most basic version.
Regardless—Naturally, 'Yes' was clicked.
What was best about the upgrade was not the doubled floor size or the increased ceiling height.
It was the fact that there was now an automatic inventory function and automatic sorting!
Of course, the latter had a small charge of 100 copper per cubic meter of sorting. However, she valued her time to be much higher, so she thought it'd be worth it.
Leaving the warehouse behind, she went back to planning the Eastern part of the territory.
More factories were zoned in this area. Each lot would have a thousand square meters with a building footprint of around 600 square meters in size and five meters in height.
Like farm villas, there was also a level 2 fence surrounding each one.
So far, three factories have been made, two of which were hers and one was Baron's wood factory. There were seven more currently being built.
These were also not for sale but leased for a minimum of 5 years. When she really expanded, perhaps (unlikely, but perhaps) she'd put more land for sale, but she was taking a bit of a condensed route now, so she decided to hold most of the land in her hands.
Anyway, the harder it was to own land in her territory, the more prestige would be attached to it.
As for the military, she left a huge part of the land for it not far from the village center, near the industrial and farming areas.
Here, they would build barracks on their own, jointly planned by soldiers from both worlds.
Although system barracks may be more efficient and may have better output, she couldn't let go of her bathhouse. What if extreme weather changes happened tomorrow? What would they do?
Anyway, she was really looking forward to what the construction team, Drake, and Rowan would come up with. Whatever it was, it definitely wouldn't be bad.
She had also placed the Training Hall in this area before. She was planning on giving guards a cumulative 50 hours per month to use it for free.
On the other hand, everyone else needed to pay 100 copper and 100 contributions an hour to use it. Using it often would not only give an advantage in terms of strength, but it could be seen as a sign of prestige.
Speaking of prestige, there would be two luxury areas. She set aside a part of the mountain covered by future expansion for mountain villas, and another one was located south, on the other side of the river, which was already under development.
The main feature of this area was, of course, the Bathhouse. While she bought it mainly as an additional card during extreme weather conditions, it would happen a few weeks a year at most.
When not in those harsh times, the bathhouse treatment would be what it deserved: a Luxury. Anyway, in non-emergencies, bathing in hot springs was really unnecessary for survival.
Eventually, she would also develop the area into an up-end leisure spot with get-aways, spas, and the like.
The bathhouse luxury area would requiring 1 silver an hour and 10 contribution points to enter (not including the added services inside). The Bathhouse would thereby be tagged as another one of the 'special buildings' requiring contribution points.
Speaking of, her farm villa was actually located pretty near the river, just past the parks. It would take less than ten minutes of leisure walking to get to the bathhouse.
"Do you want to take a bath at the pool with mom? When you get a little older, of course." She said playfully, teasing her children and making them roll over.
The children laughed and her heart melted, and she couldn't help but smooch the both of their faces.
After dozens of kisses, she finally turned her attention back to the task at hand, adding the finishing touches.
Her eyes stared at the bird's eye view of the territory, people will definitely be surprised by the changes when they wake up tomorrow.
Very big… and ready for the entry of hundreds of new residents.
She paused at this thought, her face twitching a bit at the thought of how much work all these facilities and the territory's future population would require.
She wouldn't be able to handle it herself. She didn't want to.
If she did, she might as well forget about doing her precious experiments and, of course, spending enough quality time with her children.
In any case, the territory was getting larger and she'd soon need administrative functions. Her goal was to be a hands-off shopkeeper, only making the major decisions and reaping profits, while spending the rest of her time in whatever way she wanted.
What a lovely thought…
She quickly tried thinking of how to apply it in reality. The first consideration, of course, was what she couldn't do with the system she already had.
Although the Village Center was extremely convenient and made many things 'automated' there was still plenty of work that needed the human touch.
Even when Terran was advanced, the budding AI and robotics technology still didn't take over several service-oriented industries. She was not planning to change it now.
She thought that perhaps she could find an NPC to assist her. Of course, ideally the core positions were still Terrans, not because of anything else, but because NPCs were just hired people in the end.
Even if they grew to love the territory, most of them had their own homes. For Terrans, there was no other place.
She rummaged several faces in her head to determine who she could place in certain positions, pausing at a particular face.
Didn't she have the perfect person right next door?