Feature Requests/Alternative Funding System for Temples and Guild Houses

A new way to fund temples and guildhouses. The purpose is to ease the drudgework of keeping gold in treasuries via manual transfer of funds.

General idea:

• Every maintenance period, gold is taken from the local treasury of the guild/temple exactly as it is done using the current system.
• A corresponding message is sent to the local lord listing the maintenance fees paid by all guildhouses and temples in his region.,
  • Secret society safehouses are specifically excluded! They do not use this new system.
• The message to the lord includes a link allowing him to pay the maintenance fee. The link is available to him anywhere, so long as he is not traveling.
  • A separate link is provided for each temple and guildhouse. The lord can choose to support only those he wants to support.
• If the lord clicks the link, then the amount of the maintenance fee is removed from the regional economy and placed in the guildhouse local treasury.
  • Should it come out of the lord's pocket, or can it be pulled from the local economy, like the trade balance?
• If the region has no lord on maintenance day, the no message is generated, and the alternative funding is not available for that maintenance period. As such, temples and guildhouses in rogue regions could not benefit from this system.
• Maintenance fees are still paid as normal: The gold for maintenance still comes from the local treasury. If the local is empty, then the global. If the global is empty then the guildhouse/temple decays as normal.
• The link provided to the lord only replenishes the local treasury by the exact amount of the maintenance fee. It will not save a temple or guildhouse if the local and global are both empty, sicne the gold would be placed in the treasury after maintenance is counted.
• The lord must click the link to fund each temple/guildhouse if he desires to fund it. It is not an automatic deduction. If he doesn't click the link, then nothing happens and it costs him nothing.