After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World-Chapter 1126: Next Steps (Part 1)

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The next part of the agenda was the increase in requirements for residencies.

As a Town, the prices and therefore the value of contribution points were also to be changed.

Ansel had already prepared a report with Ramil and Raj 1about this, proposing the new prices that would fit their Town and its future growth.

In order to ensure that the unfortunate would retain the chance at life, their entrance fees remained way lower than other Towns at 30 copper/day for visitors and tourists.

However, the costs of obtaining residencies were high with temporary residents having to pay a one-time fee of 5000 contribution points and a maintenance fee of 1 gold a month.

The requirement for permanent residency was even more disproportionally higher. It would now require a one-time payment of 50 gold and 25,000 contribution points.

The value of contribution points had also been balanced out further, making it still very useful even if someone had minimum, but also not too easy to obtain so no one could hoard all the good things in Alterra.

Basically, if one had to start from scratch, the average person—that was to say, someone within the average level and at a decent age range—would be able to achieve at least a temporary residency within a few months or a year, at most.

Of course, this was depending on how hard they actually worked for it and how talented they were.

Calculating, some people might not aim for residencies anymore and just remain visitors. However, the benefits of being residents still far outweighed its costs.

The free gathering of resources had been reduced and had also become limited to Residents only, though taking the fruits and stuff from the territory was still possible for non-citizens for an affordable amount of money.

Further, like before, only residents (except for some business partners like the Golds and the Rolan Mercenary Team) could lease a property, and only permanent could own one.

The most visitors could do was stay in dormitories, inn, hotels, or bed spaces rented out by residencies, which could be more expensive in the long term.

Also, even if it was far more comfortable than those outside, who wouldn’t want to have a place of their own? It was human nature to have their own ’base’.

Alterra had also established more benefit systems available only for residents. The most prominent one would be the loan system. Non-residents would have very limited credit, only enough for survival, and this was only given if they had secured a job or gathered enough contribution points to prove they were capable of paying back.

For temporary residents, they could get loans to start small businesses, and permanent residents could get even higher. There were already some people who opted to invest everything in a permanent residency, and then take out a loan to buy a house (assuming their jobs were stable of course) which was actually both a brave and smart thing to do.

There would be an improved health benefits system.

Getting treated in the hospitals and clinics would be affordable to the masses—but it wouldn’t be free.

However, every Resident would have a certain amount of free healthcare, as well as free annual checkups.

Treating serious injuries obtained during wars and beast mobs was also subject to a lot of discounts and was affordable even for the poor. (It was no longer completely free though; their numbers had gone up too much and they realized that some people took advantage.)

For Residents though, they could be pretty much insured with everything except blatant self-harm.

There would be social security as well, wherein a portion of their salaries would be placed in the bank for their future use. After a few years, they could be availed with some interest.

Finally, there was also a retirement benefit, which could be availed by those who had been residents for more than thirty years for the young adults and fifteen years for the older people (which was short considering increased lifespans in Xeno).

After retirement, they would basically not go hungry even if they didn’t work nor would they worry about the other basic needs.

It was a lengthy discussion, making sure that—as much as possible—they would step into the best direction they could take, not just for themselves, but for the territory and for future generations.

Every elder knew who she was by now, and she told them of the new area they could play with. "The current area is now more than twice of what we have," she said.

The Elders had interestingly varied expressions. Those who were more concerned about military strength (like most men) flinched, thinking of how difficult it would be to guard such a big area. In contrast, those who were into infrastructure (the woman + Ansel) were already thinking of what they could propose to build in the future.

"I didn’t expand the walls because we don’t need to yet, and I’m also hoping to use the Level 7 Walls by then."

Level 7 Walls and Sentries—available with one more upgrade—had farther reach and stronger attacks, it also had a much higher defense than Level 6. She might as well save up for that, instead.

Anyway, she knew the requirement of upgrading to a Level 2 Town. Because they had been holding back the past months, they were actually not too far away from upgrade and she estimated she only needed another year or less.

According to the Ferrol Notes, the requirement for the upgrade was 50,000 population, 30,000 Residents, and 3000 Prestige. Now that they had opened their gates again, it was only a matter of time for Alterra to reach that population level.

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The supposed most difficult part—the prestige—was already past 2000 for Alterra. When new products came out, it would probably increase even more.

Anyway, while Level 6 Sentry was what most towns had, it would just give her 150-meter reach (and slightly stronger) attacks, and placing those around a larger scope—even if she decided to optimize and space at 300 meters apart—would not be cost-efficient if she decided to guard the new perimeter they had now.

Althea shivered whenever she had to spend money on something not cost-efficient.

In contrast, the threshold for sentries with farther reach—at a whooping 300-meter scope and twice the shooting rate and power—was at Level 7.

Having such a wide reach, if distanced well, in addition to its strength would be truly secure her territory well.

She didn’t know the exact cost yet though. Jonathan’s Father did not upgrade his wall to that level because he said it was too expensive. It was why it was a wall that could only be found in Cities, and he said no Town could afford it without draining much of their treasury.

There weren’t exactly City Lords they were close with either. Even if there was, their walls would’ve been built long before they were born, so they might not be privy to that information.

So… Althea was saving up a lot. She still felt she was too poor.

If people knew how much money she had hoarded within a year, they would faint and want to shake her badly.

So greedy!

Bank bros.