User:Nyasara/Citrus investing

Getting into Citrus can be a pretty intensive investment. It takes several Indonesian Bee Hives to even start getting different fruits, and many if you want to maintain access to a bunch of different ones. It's not like Beer or Wine where you can slap down a few vineyards and a barrel and get something useful pretty quickly. And you don't even know what fruits you're going to need anyway when Test of Festivals or Mining Camps come out.

So let me do the work for you instead! Indo bees benefit from density, volume, and diversity. I already have an orchard of 25 hives, but plan to expand to at least double that. I am aiming to have every base fruit and as many unique combinations as possible. Instead of replicating that, why not purchase a share in my orchard? Here's how it works:

1. Pay an upfront fee of half the material cost of an Indonesian Bee Hive now, as many as you like

• • 100 clay
  • 1 papyrus baskets (or 100 dried papyrus)
  • 6 Linen
  • 40 Twine (for the small construction site)

2. Let me do all the hard work mulching, crunching numbers, and managing the orchard that does nothing yet

3. When a use for Citrus or Aromatic Honey arrives, you will be able to view the orchard's options, and select what you want every week (first come, first served)

• • Each share will entitle you to 6 Aromatic Honey and 9 Citrus per week, ~3/7 of a hive's output
  • You can mix and match across the entire orchard (that hasn't already been claimed), you are not confined to a specific tree
  • You can lock in choices across multiple weeks, or change every week
  • Before there is a use, harvesting might be intermittent/unpredictable, but you can still request some things once a week if you like

4. As an investor, you will also be entitled to flat rates (TBD) when trading for my other Citrus and Aromatic Honey, no matter how "rare" a particular thing is

And that's it. Help me make more hives, and I will add them to what I hope will be the largest, most diverse orchard in Egypt. You get what you need when you need it.

• Why shouldn't I just build my own instead of giving you the materials?
  • Why not both? I would never discourage someone to ignore this completely. if you want to get into it, get into it! You can also purchase shares to supplement your own orchard. Maybe you set up a 9-tree orchard and get some good stuff going in there, and then use your share selections to fill in the gaps!
  • With the way Indo hives work, every new orchard basically starts from the same point. There are two starter fruits, and you have to slowly and laboriously get the RNG to mix and match in a good way to get where you want. The response is size and diversity, you create a bunch of hives, just so you can eventually (maybe) get the combos you need. Everyone doing that alone is inefficient, I propose to do most of the work, in exchange for the materials to grow and some of the prodcution.
• What if the orchard doesn't have the exact thing I need?
  • If the time comes and I'm not able to get you what you need, you can ask me to buy your share back from you (I will attempt to give some interest based on how long it has been). I will also try to breed what you need upon request.
• What if you quit playing?
  • I have not come up with an exact plan for this yet, but it is of course a distinct possibility. The most likely approach will be osmething along the lines of having a guild for all investors, and I will set the largest investors to Elder if I depart the game and allow them to dispense with the orchard as they see fit. Again, exact details TBD.