Ashwind Chronicle Developer Blog

This is a development plan article about something we would like to build next. Nothing described here is implemented yet; the ideas are still under consideration and may change before they are built.

This morning's article (#74) showed chief researchers bringing their next research proposals as cards. Together with the Minister's budget plans (#71), the state's officers now regularly bring you proposals. As the next step, this plan (improvement item DOM-040) would give each officer a "trust" level that changes with whether you take or decline their proposals, and that in turn changes how many proposals they bring and whether they stay in office.

The Tax Policy screen today (captured for verification in a development debug build). The Minister has Governance D, so two reform plans are shown and the third is concealed: "A Minister with Governance B or better proposes plan 3". Country and numbers come from a verification setup.

The buttons that handed institution and technology research to the AI are gone from the research management window. Whether research is delegated now depends on whether a chief researcher is in office, and when a delegated research slot becomes free, the chief researcher brings proposals for the next research.

The proposals arrive as cards in the same form as the minister's budget proposals introduced two articles ago (#71). The more able the researcher, the more proposals there are to compare.

The event screen, captured for verification in a development debug build. The chief researcher (policy) proposes three options for the next research, with her portrait and a "View proposals" button. People and the country's state come from a verification setup and may change.

This is a development plan article about something we would like to build next. Nothing described here is implemented yet; the ideas are still under consideration and may change before they are built.

This morning's article (#72) showed bank equipment loans letting private owners add facilities. As the next step, this plan (improvement item FIN-022) would end the current "same rate from every bank" setup: each bank would publish its own lending rates, and banks would compete on them.

The construction screen today (captured for verification in a development debug build). Selecting Bank on the Facilities tab shows charts of revenue, wages and workers on the Overview, but there is no place to see what rate that bank lends at. Country, places and numbers come from a verification setup.

Two days ago, a plan article (#70) described an idea under consideration: banks lend the deposits they collect to businesses, and private owners build more facilities on their own. The next day the plan was implemented as improvement item FIN-020.

This article shows how the plan turned out, using the actual screens. Where the plan article had mock-ups, this one has a working game.

The construction screen, captured for verification in a development debug build. Reservation 7 is farmland that a private owner is adding with a bank equipment loan. It carries a "Private loan" tag, and "Cancel reservation" is disabled. "Farmland in this region: Private 3 → 4" shows that one more privately run farmland will exist when it is finished. Country, places and numbers come from a verification setup and may change.

The annual budget introduced in #46 worked like this: in January you set one discretionary limit, and you could top it up if it ran short. But it was a single number. It said nothing about whether the money would go to the army or to construction, and typing one number did not feel much like setting national policy.

This round of development rebuilds the budget screen. Every January the tax minister now brings budget proposals (UI-051); the budget is split across welfare, armaments, construction, research, stockpile and a reserve (FIN-019); bond rates depend on the term and principal is repaid every year (FIN-018); and short fields can get a supplementary budget during the year. The budget is now its own window that can be closed or minimized (UI-050).

The January budget proposal event, captured for verification in a development debug build (2026-10-30). A minister with governance grade B offers two plans, Balanced (marked Advised) and Austerity; the third card is face down because similar plans were merged into one. Country and amounts come from a verification setup and may change.