Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-27104094-20171125215702/@comment-31763506-20171225015600

"Round One: Up to the Party Split"? Shorter and matches the Rd 3 title better.

The problem with the discretionary funds getting mixed in with the investments is that if we make profitable and non-profitable investments into separate top level headings, there will be two discretionary funds subtables. Four if you differentiate state and personal DF.

The sort order that makes the most sense to me is:

Round->Profit/Non-Profit->Location

That'd make the DF period investment round 3.5.

So the tables for Round 1 would be ordered

Rd1

Profit

Ari-Yhilina

Yhilin Bank Premium Steel Mine Processing Cache Excavation Gift to Megail Yhilini Arms Dealer

Stineford

Stineford Magic Shop

Non-Profit

Ari-Yhilina

Bridge Repair Yhilini Public Works Yhilini Anti-Corruption Campaign Shrine Renovation Iron Cudgel Dusty Horde Ari-Garda Flower Speculation? (It is intended to be a for profit investment, but isn't.) Megail ProN to Sx Conversion? (It costs ProN and has an RP effect.)

I like the idea of profit demarcation by color code, but I'd argue for Megail's path getting a color coded item as well, maybe cyan. The only Rd 1 profit would be the early dividends from the Yhilin bank and the Flower Speculation, so they can be a special case. Obviously there needs to be a key for the color coding.

I'd also argue that a clearer differentiation between Premium Steel as a Weapons Manufacturer and Premium Steel Ownership needs to be made, as with the Yhilin Bank and Yhilin Bank Core Lender investments, given SL's treatment of them in the ledger after the Third Arclent War.