I'm going to normalise the score so that the highest scorer has ten thousand points, and set the prices to work with that. Unlike EU4 this won't be an auction, you just buy the stuff you want. If you don't like to make your purchases public, send me a PM here or on Discord instead. Unused score will be converted to literacy (so if you don't post, you get literacy), in such a way that if the top scorer buys nothing except literacy, he will get 5% extra, 4% will cost half that, 3% half of that again, and so on down with a smooth generating function. With ten thousand points, the literacy prices are:

5%: 10000
4%: 5000
3%: 2500
1%: 625
0.5%: 441
0%: 313
-1%: 156
-2%: 78
-9%: 1

That's what happens when you start with an "X should cost double" and just pursue the idea. So, it is somewhat suggested that you save a couple of hundred points to avoid a literacy penalty.

Other things available for purchase:

Factories: You can buy any factory that's available at game start. First factory (for each player) costs 1000, each subsequent one doubles in price. It follows that nobody can buy more than three factories. Note that these are in addition to what the converter gives you.

Fringe parties: You may pay 1000 points to make your Fascist, Socialist, Communist, or Anarcho-Liberal party (not Liberal, Conservative,or Reactionary, you take your chances with those) into a copy of a vanilla nation's party. Copying a second party costs 1500, then 2000, then 2500; and you must copy from the same vanilla nation in each case - no taking Germany's fascists and France's anarcho-liberals. For example, if you buy the Dutch anarcho-liberals, and you also want to change your fascists, you must buy the Dutch fascists.

Reforms: You may buy one level of a political or social reform for 1000 points; second costs 1500, and so on. (You may not buy two levels of the same reform. ) Be aware that social reforms cost money to maintain.

Techs: You may buy a tech that another nation has at game start; that is, catchup only. 2000 points for the first tech, 3000 for the second, 4000 for the third; double if the tech is level 2.

Tech schools: You may buy a tech school other than Krupp and Junker. 250 points for the first tech school, double for every subsequent one.

Starting party: You may change your starting government to conservative, liberal, or reactionary. 250 points for the first starting government, doubling for each subsequent one.

RGO swap: You can swap two RGOs that you own, for example to create a state that has both coal and iron, to move a coal province from a vulnerable border state to your capital, or to make a high-population province produce a scarce resource. 1500 points, you can only buy this once.

Points after normalisation:

Dragoon: 10000

Tazzzo: 9013

James Craig: 7386

Clonefusion: 7279

Mark: 7176

Blayne: 6467

Ranger: 5418

Everyone else (median): 4731

Again, please note: You must spend at least 313 points on literacy to avoid a penalty.

Deliberately left out: Prestige and country-specific decisions.

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Elysium

7386 points

Trinket healthcare -1000=6386

basic schools -1500=4886

RGO swap Cajamarca (Sulphur) with Pernambuco (Wheat) -1500=3386

Machine parts factory in Cundinamarca -1000=2386

Tycoon capitalism tech school -250=2136

The remaining points to literacy

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Maik asked me to post for him since he cant log into ederon.

Occitania - 4731
Machine parts factory - 3731
Trinket healthcare - 2731
Military industrial complex - 2481
basic school system - 981
981 into literacy - 0

Friday.

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Norway Rome The Khanate Scotland Scotinavia Christendie the Serene Republic has always been at war with the Bretons False Empire Caliphate Persians Russians English Hungarians Oceanians Saracen Jackal! Death, death, death to the Frogs barbarians infidels necromancers vodka-drinking hegemonists Sassenach nomad menace Yellow Menace heathen Great Old One!

Great britain - 4731
Machine parts factory - 3731 (leinster-concacht)
Trinket healthcare - 2731
Sea power & The Merchant Marine - 2481
basic school system - 981
981 into literacy - 0

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Points to use: 4731
switch moree 2474 RGO with Melbourne 2476 - 1500 points
healthcare - 1000
basic school system - 1000
Tycoon Capitalism and Business Schools - 250
4731 - 3750 = 981
+1.5% Lit 938 points
981 - 938 = 43 left over

Rharia Customizations

4731
-1000 For Machine Parts Factory

-1000 for Trinket Healthcare

-1500 for Basic School System

-250 for Military Industrial Complex

= 981 for Literacy

Elysium

7386 points

Trinket healthcare -1000=6386

basic schools -1500=4886

RGO swap Cajamarca (Sulphur) with Pernambuco (Wheat) -1500=3386

Machine parts factory in Cundinamarca -1000=2386

Tycoon capitalism tech school -250=2136

I would also like to request that my stage 2 political parties which normally change out my starting parties in the 1870s be made available at game start instead of my starting parties. I am willing to pay both the cost of bringing in a fringe party and fixing my starting party for this. (1250 points) If this is not something I can do, then all remaining points go to literacy.

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