The house of the riding Valkyries
Sending your girls to ride it´s an aspect that can be missed, and it´s a very useful tool to use. Let´s give a look to it.
You can send any female slave or servant to ride, from 6pm to 8 pm. In order to do this you must sign her in one of the two riding schools availables. There are one more expensive, and one cheaper.
First the cheap one.
Muller's Barn
You sign her, costs 5 meagre $ per day and you get a 10% chance of getting a increase on happiness. Not bad, but nothing to write home.
But you can buy tings and not go just for rental. Mind you, if you withdraw the girl, you loose most of your investment.
You can buy the girl a Horse. 500$, one time investment. That rises the benefits to +18% happiness and 5% of discipline. Not bad, and the 5% of discipline it´s now, with the workshops, of some importance.
You can upgrade the gear. 200$. Rises the Happiness to 23 and, more important, gives you a +1 of influence. That´s a no brainer to me. If I buy a horse, I always upgrade the gear. Total 700$ inversion, 5$ maintenance, 25% Happiness, 5% discipline and 1 influence.
And finally, you can upgrade the horse to a Thoroughbred. 1000$, for a total result of Investment 1700$, 5$ maintenance, 40% happines, Discipline to 10 and Influence to +3%
May be we need to go big to see the impact of this tool. Let´s imagine a 2 workshops crew, 20 slaves. The maintenance it´s a mere 100$ daily (peanuts) and the investment it´s 34.000 (Yes, no one have said that it´s costless) and you get
1) 2 points of discipline. That´s almost as having for this purpose an extra Slave Master.
2) 8 points of happiness. Well, something it´s something,
3) And last, and this it´s the main benefit, you get 60 point´s of influence. If you want 60 extra points of influence per day, one of the most efficient ways to do it it´s giving food to the orphanage. 200 food gives you 100 influence. Even with the food dirty cheap ( lets say 4$) this 60 extra influence equates to 480$ of expense daily. You get you investment back in, at most, 90 days. If the food it´s more expensive, obviously, you get you investment back a lot earlier. And then it´s 60 influence per 100$. Every single day. Without taking into account the benefits of discipline and happiness
The best thing of this approach it´s that it´s not an investment that you must get all together to get the profits. You can get it steep by steep. As slowly as 1700$ per slave that gets into your household. Or even 700, just buying the plain horse + gear if you are in a budget at the moment.
And now, we can examine the expensive barn. Mind you, wen I said expensive, I mean expensive if you want to go to the bottom of the barrel.
White Stables
Going rental, it´s 25$ of maintenance, and you get 10% happiness, 5% discipline and +1 influence. ÇIt´s clearly not a good long term investment, because you get better results with the plain horse + upgraded gear in Mullers, and in 35 days the difference of maintenance makes for the inversion.
First steep, it´s again Buying a Horse (900$) plus an upgraded gear (200) and you get +25 happiness, + 10 discipline + 3 influence. Again, not a good term option, because it´s worse (25% happiness instead of 40) that a Full Muller, and the slightly minor investment it´s devoured in just 35 days.
But hey, if you go posh, you MUST go posh over the roof. For 1500$ extra you can buy a pure bred, and you get 35 happiness, +15 discipline and +4 influence. That´s better (-5 happiness worse, + 1 influence more and 5% discipline more) that top Muller´s but you are paying +20$ extra daily and have invested 700$ more per slave. Debatable what it´s better.
Over the roof? Over the roof it´s for pussies! The sky it´s the limit, and beyond!!! You can buy a champion for 2500$ extra. And this put´s you on a whooping +60% of happiness +20% discipline and +6 influence per slave.
In my opinion if you go White Stables, you must go to the top. You are fucking rich, not a wannabe. You get twice the influence and twice the discipline for slave. Yes, you are paying 25 per day instead of 5, and have invested 5100 per slave instead of just 1700. It´s clearly less efficient, but it´s more effective.
What I do (and what it´s right for me don´t need to be right for you) it´s start putting as early as you can (day 5-6 at most) slaves in Mullers ( at start, 5100 per slave its too much money) but usually I switch to White Stables. And even latter I assume the losses (roughly 1000$ per slave) and switch my first 5-6 Muller´s slaves to White Stables.
