After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 945

Chapter 945: Changed Standards

By Comfort Zone, it meant surviving in this world without losing a bulk of their people!

Of course, they still trained as a habit now, but it didn’t mean they wanted trouble.

Ansel and the others cringed at the thought of the changes that’d be brought about if they climbed up as they were now.

They had long stopped dreading battles after getting to this stage. At the very least, Alterra was strong enough for them not to worry if they weren’t in the mood to fight and clear mobs.

They didn’t want to go back to the time where they couldn’t sleep, fearing they’d get attacked by mobs in the middle of the night!

“Can we even control Prestige?” Gru asked as he looked at Althea, who unfortunately shook her head.

“We can’t, so we can only control the residencies.”

Ansel spoke this time. “Actually my sister and I already set the costs for Towns. Should we just apply it earlier?”

“Hm, makes sense.”

“Applying the initial plans, we will set the entry fee to 20 copper—which is still cheap considering most Towns charge at least 1 silver for entry.”

Seeing how it was now, they would probably increase again after actually upgrading to Town, but definitely not too much. 1 silver a day was really insane, to be honest. It was no wonder the poor remained poor over there, even if they went out to hunt every day.

“Then we will charge 50 silver/mo and 2000 Contribution Points to those who want to avail Temporary Residency, and 20 gold plus 10,000 contribution points to those who hope to have permanent residency.”

The average salary had been raised to 10 silver per day, which was about 3 gold per month. This was the average salary even in aborigine territories. Of course, in Alterra, this money meant quite a whole lot more because it had a lot more purchasing power.

Basically, even when they increased some of the costs and taxes, people living frugally could still keep at least half of their daily salaries.

This was already much, much, better than those outside who could barely scrape by with their entire salaries.

Anyway, by increasing the costs and contribution point requirement, the upgrade to become a resident—even if it was only temporary—had become a lot more stringent. This applied much more to the Permanent Residency.

To those who were near the requirement but hadn’t upgraded within the day… they could only count themselves unlucky.

“With this, we can slow down the progress by a few months,” Mathilda said. “Probably.”

At this, she looked at the others. “Perhaps we should also change the value of contribution points.”

Ansel and Althea nodded at this. “Actually, we had indeed considered this.”

During the concept’s inception, the value of the contribution point was a lot easier to determine. The contribution points received by those with ‘government’ jobs were slightly arbitrary, but they were proportional to the position.

At the time, the points calculation was even more straightforward with regard to fighting monsters. Basically, it was almost the same as the copper received per kill.

However… they couldn’t keep using this method after all this time. This world had a balancing act. For one, nothing would be received if the monster was five levels lower.

More importantly, even if the gap was not so wide, the rewards were not proportional to the monster’s strength and level.

For instance, a Level 4 monster would give 100 EXP and 100 Copper to people until Level 9. Past Level 10, people had to go against stronger monsters.

However, a Level 10 monster would give only 400 Copper and Experience.

The differences between the strength and the danger level of a level 4 and level 10 were as wide as a gorge—yet the differences in the rewards were a measly 300 copper.

Looking at this, if they maintained the contribution points back as it was, a level 5 could earn around as much as a level 15 with a few variances.

As such, they decided to formalize the contribution points according to monster levels instead. They also modified the contribution points that could be used as payment by employers, to balance things out.

The group finalized a few things, making the assumption that they would be upgrading within a few more months. They could try to delay it a bit more using other methods, but it would be good to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

Before they adjourned, Mathilda raised her hand to stop them. She remembered something quite important. “About the inevitable upgrade: We should also send word to the nearby villages.”

This made everyone pause, realizing the importance of this.

Becoming a town would increase their monster level from the doable 6 to 8 average levels, to about twice that. Alterra was so deep into the terrain… that monsters it attracted would pass by their allied villages.

When Alterra upgraded, then those places ought to be prepared for that level of enemy—otherwise, a lot of people will die.

To think that upgrading their own territories could mean the demise of thousands of people outside… was a bit burdensome.

Garan sighed. “We will assist them,” he said. “At the very least, they should build themselves enough to be able to handle the mobs.”

Of course, such stronger mobs would still target Alterra more. It was just that their position meant that the strong mobs would go through the others first if they were in the way.

“Well, in the meantime, everyone—every department—shall be strengthening all aspects of Alterra as much as we can before the upgrade.”

When they finally adjourned though, their attention was attracted by a loud exclamation nearby. “The babies!!” It was Winona, and everyone stood up to see.

They worried that something could’ve happened, only to find that Winona was yelling in excitement because the babies were trying to stand up!

The ball was floating a little higher this time and it seemed like the babies wanted to stand up to reach it.

They watched as the babies touched the floor with their small hands, trying to push themselves up.

Their bums were wiggling as they tried to do so—very cute—but the adults’ breaths paused as they waited in excitement.

Would they be able to stand up so early?