.722 art update

  1) put in a cheat flag to ask lords (a Princess is technically a "lord", although that's usually assumed male by Native)
    top drop their other pursuits.  This allows a person to FORCE a cleared rivals list, although it sort of borders on hostile magic.

  Its slightly better than stopping all love triangles.  They're a fact of life, and free agency is probably the last great hope for
our poor AI.  (That is, if they were able to hope, which at the moment isn't happening...)

  2) Economy having play tested a bit I've adjusted starting resources to try to change mid game pricing on raw materials for
players operating enterprises to try their hand at buying their own supplies.  Enterprise price, production output, input, operating overhead, and regional pricing on raw materials should make the trading metagame a little less "limp".  Maybe.

  3) Removed the free trade ledger from the start, where people were earlier encouraging themselves to go back and forth until their inventory overflowed and then they didn't have weapons and gear.  Must have intimidated bandits not much:

  4) More money and/or stats from character creation.  Its not soo great a gift, but merchants can buy an enterprise or two and everyone else at least can get a few mercs from the start, or... if they choose something less sparkly, much less money but better stats.  Women tend to have increased riding skills, since we are knee deep in mounts that need skill.  We'll see how it tests; after all guys can ask to start as lesser nobles and get a fief in 2 weeks or so.  What do women get?  Not even great AI husbands...
 
  5) Oh my gosh!  Silber and Melanie managed to accidentally put all sorts of interesting mercs in the city for recruiting.
After moving the few no-go choices (Wolf parties, Demon parties, Ialoch, some greater bandits), the list of potential recruits in town is greatly expanded.  Veteran Gladiatrix?  Why yes, I'd hire you... if I could afford it that is... (since pay is level based).  But this opens up Mosaru, legionaires, Volheeres, Illica, all sorts of rough looking characters.  Why not?  I kind of like it.  In fact, it's GENIUS!  Thanks for that surprise...

  I'm exploring that module but it is a difficult port to coexist with diplomacy; the two are possible to coexist, but finding portions that align to compare the two is difficult as sections are moved every which way and its uncertain any given section is even close in their interpretation of what to put for the same function.

  I won't take everything, as I think its too confusing to open camp menu and decide to sneak/ambush/stop sneak/stop ambush/explore/stop explore/camp in the wilderness and wake up much less refreshed than before etc.  But that wont stop me from stating that if some of these things were smoother or automatic I wouldn't be tickled to put them in (well, crafting will come, bards singing for revenue and fame/groupies will come, but I think I want camping and exploring to either be less drastic or give healthy bonuses to foresters, nomads, and elves/dwarves/draharans/ rangers for these.

  As it remains an extremely difficult merge this will not happen until Valentine's day or thereabouts. (Diplomacy + Rigale)
Perisno is mostly diplomacy in architecture so solving for stock Diplomacy makes the port to Perisno fairly easy, and happens shortly after I release the merge (stock Diplomacy 4.3 + stock Rigale v11)  back to Cernanos next month.  There are some limitations to crafting I'd like to overcome, such as I want to combine tailoring and leatherwork to one skill, and make silk shirts for court and ladies court dresses and other stuff.  No, I don't wear mascara -- but I think we should be able to craft new, semi magical items, such as merchant outfits that boost merchant skills, or something that has resistances in other submods.  So its all useful time for me.

  And that's how I wasted today.  I know I promised a patch tomorrow, testing now...