Chamberlain = No Money in the Field?

[Phienyx]

I find that there is a fairly significant drawback to obtaining a Chamberlain.  Once you do, you do not receive money in the field anymore.  This is a problem is you are operating a significant distance from your castle, village or town.  You may have 90,000 denars in your account, but say you are across the country and have only 5 denars, then you are S.O.L unless you trek all the way back home and manually retrieve more denars.  However, pre-chamberlain, you are able to pay for whatever is needed on the fly.  I see this as a pretty serious disadvantage.

Perhaps there could be a way to have all or a percentage of your denars couriored out to your location. (such as when your ransomed companions find you in the field).

 

[manekemaan]

maybe this should be posted at suggestions

and a bit more worked out like: when they cary a percentage to you, it will take some time after the report, the carrier might be attacked etc

 

[Malachi256]

I have been struggling with this as well.

IMHO there should simply be an option to have a percentage of your weekly income go to you instead of straight to your bank - talk to your Chamberlain and say "I'd like X percent of my weekly income go straight to my personal wallet each week" and have X be anything from 10, 20, to 100%.

It's nice not having all your money on you if you get beaten, but it sucks to be out on a recruiting run or something and to run out of cash for promotions and supplies.

 

[Stildawn]

More realistic would be all your income going to the treasury and all the money you get on your travels goes to you.

Like this...

Treasury:
Ransoms of lords
All rents/tariffs
All business income
All wages come out of this

In your Hand:
All battle money
All trading money (selling/buying goods)
Ransomed troops using Ransom broker
Quest payments

This to me would make more sense that a % split... Like who back in the day would send numerous riders every time they made some coin taking the treasurey portion back to town lol.

 

[Phienyx]

.....This to me would make more sense that a % split... Like who back in the day would send numerous riders every time they made some coin taking the treasurey portion back to town lol.

This actually happened quite often during long wars.  Not all Loot and monies were not kept with the troops.  Much of it was sent back to the homeland via caravans and such.

I think an option to have a caravan send money home or brought to the field would be reasonable.  There, of course, would always be a chance that your caravan would be acosted on the way and your goods lost.

 

[Malachi256]

Most of my income is from various trade enterprises in cities.  Whether that money has to travel to my "bank" or to my own person, it has to travel.  /shrug

 

[Phienyx]

My only issue that access to money is limited in the field once you hire a chamberlain.  The benefits of having a chamberlain at the moment is over shadowed by the drawback of not having access to your cash while you're in the field.  Unless you are playing a lord/king that will raid villages regardless of being at war with their kingdom or not, doesn't lose men, or is trading regularly during an extended campaign, you will always have to go back to your main city/village/fortress to replenish your denar supply.  This is an inconvenience that did not have to be suffered pre-chamberlain.