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I would concentrate my efforts on offices in brick towns, especially in the North Sea since the Baltic towns take an extra effort to populate their buisnesses. even more though than London.
I passed on the first fair lady, she was too snobbish to talk to the great unwashed and snubbed the councillors too. Furthermore, a 62% snaikka was not worth my while. My eyes are on a socialite out of Bremen who will bring a cog.
Using a laptop does not mean you can't use a mouse or trackball. There are some nice switches that convert a PC2 keyboard and mouse to one USB plug. That's how I travel. But, I can assure you that P III even looks good in 1650 x 1080 on a 2216W. After a week I no longer noticed the distortion and have to get used to the old laptop whenever I play on it, the new one is widescreen too.

Just so you know the peanalty for piracy. Currently the average satisfaction levels is, in points:
rich 1.3, wealthy 2.3, poor 3.0
The population is made up as follows:
rich 4.8%, wealthy 16.9%, poor 78.3%

Do I care? NO, Since I have made up my mind to play at least until the end of 1309. So one year in the dumpster will not have that great of an effect.

After close to one month of begging, borrowing, stealing and trading I managed to improve the sitation somewhat:
rich 5.6%, satisfaction 1.5
wealthy 23.4%, satisfactiom 3.0
poor 71%, satisfaction 3.5
The 40% jump in wealthy puzzles me somewhat. I have towns where the wealthy are more satisifed than the poor - go figure.

Catch 22 is the lack of wool, which does not get better very fast since it takes a happy population to come and work on sheepfarms. Six farms are completed but, currently, there are only 25 workers. Because wool is lacking, fisher are not too keen either and Bremen needs fish to make the people happier to get the wool production up. A nice mess I got myself into

BTW, I know how to attract people to town. Besides the obvious, a school is under construction.

Do you mean the saves of the contest2006? they are available here
The final standings are here
and the standings by year are here

ew = population, uw = company value. the tables to the right depict increase in each value.

Since the contest2007 has just gotten off the ground, and the big kahoona is sorting out webspace, it may take another week, or two, before the saves will be available to the general public. We don't intend to keep them a secret, but we do have other obligations besides P II/III
I will include the link in the contest details and contet links threads once available. Please bear with us.

Most effective:
Sell key goods at prices that are not too high. This will outperform any other combination.

Proving work and accomodations will have a positive effect but only after an initial negative effect. Whenever builidngs are completed, the mood of the rich will take a nosedive. It does no tmatter where the buildings are.

@ Starstruck:
You are correct, the number of citizens for each social class are being read off the actual town window. Very impressive stats , did you submit yet?
The only reason to start a new production town in 1300 could be to squeeze in 2 recognitions in 1301, but that can also be done by starting sometimes in January. Provided the building materials are there, Memel can be completed in less than 6 months.

@ all
Just to clarifiy there are 6 construction crews in a new production town, The 6th shows up a day or two after placing the buildings.
I placed: market hall, citiy hall, arsenal, weapon smith, trade office, 1 ht house, & 3 grain farms. The hth was the first building that was completed, all 5 city buildings were being worked on. That's 6 in my books. However, it appears that no more than 5 work on the wall - go figure. Maybe it's my glasses

The contest2007 is actually a good vehicle to clear up some common misconceptions regarding satisfaction.
Let's take my Stettin (sometimes in 1301)
No mint, no school; the church is still in it's original state; wells & roads @ 0; no outrigger nor any fortifications. The lonely port bombard fell when unknown pirates plundered the town in the summer of 1300.
Population make-up and satisfaction level:
Rich 474 very happy
Wealthy 1,035, very happy
Poor 1,759, very happy
However, except for bricks, IG and skins there is ample supply of everything and most is sold below cost.

I had the announement of a siege in Bremen, but, after removing the 5 M out of the coffers the siege never happened. The announcement was in May of 1301 and I fast forwarded to August.

Just to let everybody know, the link to the saves is under 2007 contest links as well as in standings & commentaries.
Commentaries for 1301 & later will be seperate threads but links to the saved games will remain the same. The link to the standings will remain in the standings thread - bookmarking will help

Bremen has now been attacked. The annoucement came August 25 and the mauraders come on September 27. Lt. fast fwd they stay until end of October and do a number on population levels and their satisfaction.