I also have a question about iron. I noticed that after mining, the iron rocks had reduced to only 3-4 rocks. My question is, does minerals ever run out? If it does run out, does it replenishes itself?

I know farms can run out of resources, though they also replenishes itself after some time.

Thanks in advance.

First of all the Guild Hall is where you get loans.
Second, it is where you work on contracts and purchase orders for contracts
Third, it is where you can place consignment orders for deliveries for goods from outside of your city.

How benificial these are is based on your rank and position in the guild.
Best I can tell all they dynasties start with a very low reputation with the guild, and there are usually some non-dynasty charicters holding most of the guild positions to start. Their reputations are higher than the dynasties but usually a few contracts and you can move up in the order of the tradesmans guild.

There are 2 types of contracts and they have variations for all classes.

The first type is a mission to a distant city, they contracts just require you to report to the guild hall and accept the contract. The disadvantage is your charicter is away and out of the game usually for 8-12 hours which can be a problem if you are involved with politics, court cases or anything else. These types of mission, when complete, give usually 6-12 reputation points, 600-2000 gold and 150-300 experiance points.

The second type of mission is a special item creation mission. These items can only be made by charicters, not employees. Normally is is for 2 to 5 of the item at a price from 500-1000 each.

Production of the items requires some basic items usually made in the classes’ craft business, some raw materials and a production instruction purchased from the guild. These instructions cost 250 if purchased by anyone, 150 purchased by the head of the class guild, and 75 if purchased by the Alderman. You gain the amount of gold posted for the commision order, and 3 points of reputation with the guild if it is an item for the class of charicter turning it in and 2 points if it is an item for another class. You gain no experiance for the turn-in, but you gain 50exp for completeing manufacture of the item. Also you gain the regular trickle exp while crafting the item like you do if you are working in a business so the exp also adds up. The time to complete the item is about 5 hours if you have level 1 handicrafts and is down to about 3 hours with 5 handicraft. As you can make these items and store them and turn them in with any charicter in the group, you should be able to complete most of these types of missions offered for your classes’ by the third turn.

Another note on missions the guild hall does not issue a mission if they have one already working so completing them greatly increases the chance of another mission being availible.

On the benifits of having a possition in the guild.

FIRST 1 Loans: You get a better interest rate on the loans offered. You can easily check these by having different charicters request loans. The itnerest rates will be much lower for Alderman than for someone with no ranking in the guild.

Some further points on loans. Usually they will offer you 3 loan terms:

first, a loan for 4 years for a value of about 10 percent of your dynasties wealth. This loan will have the loweest interest rate based on 3 things, your current rank with the guild, difficulty setting fo the game and your rank in the town.

Second loan is usually for 2 or 3 years for about 15 percent of your dynasties wealth. The interest rate for this loan will be 2-5 additional points higher.

The third loan will be for a 1 year term and about 25-30% of your dynasty wealth.

A further note on loans is that the number you can take out is based on your rank in your town. At the first rank you can take one loan; at the seond rank 2 loans, I think the forth you can get the third and eventually a fourth at the highest ranking. At higher rankings you can easily have on loan as much as you are worth.

These loans can be huge in the early game as geting that second or third business up and running in the first turn can be a large boost to your income. These are also very handy if you are playing with the AI running businesses and a new one starts making large purchases to build up their store room or other cash crunches.

SECOND 2 Purches in the Guild Hall, the include Manufactoring instruction, consignment orders, and Aldermans’ chains.

Notes on these purchased Items.

1. The manufactoring instruction start at 250, go to 150 for the head of a class guild, and to 75 for the Alderman. Manufactoring instructions are not stackable in your charicter inventory, but are stackable to 5 in a cart, house of business.

2. The consignment orders are for your class and it is basic production items like: iron, silver and I think oak and pine boards for the craftmen class. The Alderman can purchase for any class at a considerable discount. This is very handy as some items like leather are offered for the scholars, but not for the craftman. These consignments come from outside your reagion so they do not affect the market price. The price you pay is somewhat affected by the market price though and by your rank in the guild. As the Alderman some of the purchaes for the Rouge class can be quite profitable as it is swords and armor. It can be very handy when you need a few of an item to maintain production in a business and you do not have ability to produce it and the price in the market is high. I usually puchase leather for a smithy and Iron or silver for for a weaver as examples.
This can be very handy to help keep your craft businesses running smoothly, keep from putting money into the coffers of your competitors, and procure items at a good price that you can not produce yourself and need in small qualtities for your own production. These orders usually take about 10-15 minutes of game time in the guild hall for each one. It is not a good way to get iron for your smithy or wheat for you bakery, but a good way to say get Leather for your Smithy or Iron for your Taylor. Being as the AI usually leaves these alone if you do not let them sell artifacts it is a really easy way to help quick fix prodution stopages.

These consignements are stackable in a cart or business I think to 10 orders. These order yeald is 10-14 (random), usually 11, of the contracted item.

On a totally different topic I find the Weavers to be a very good first craft business. If you do not have a level 3 Craftsman to upgrade yet, and especially if you do not own a mine of a woodcutters, as a level one craft building the weaver’s has several proffitable items that rebound well in the market.

purses are mostly just labor, one wool makes 5, if cash it crunched and you need to keep employees busy these are a good way to keep them producing something. The wool blankets are a great seeler and the market recovers on them very quickly. The peasants cloths also have a stable market and the goods rapidly return to base price. As all these require only wool if find that the weavers is an excellent first craft business for the simplicity and economy to run it as a tier 1 building. A super standout if you starting charicter is a Patron and you marry and craftsman.

If and when I get back into playing TG2, I’ll try to figure it out, but that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.

Really good money making tip! I tried it out and I had around 2,000,000 gold at the end of round. Also, rather than destroying mine I find it more efficient to capture and then sell, capture again, sell again, so on…

I still have a question/suggestion for a guide followup.

You did not cover any of the 5th build tree structures.
- Towers
- Storehouses
- etc…

I have an idea in mind on how they ‘should’ function.
But I would love to hear from yourself and others how they are using them (if at all).

Thank-you

Anyway, keep up the writing, it’s very interesting to read.