Average Construction Time & Cost (TCG)

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Now that you have laid out the basic structure of the castle, it's time to determine just how much all this is actually going to cost and how long it's going to take to build. Because of the modular nature of this system, that's very easy to do. Simply add up the cost of all the modules you wish to purchase and add up the time required to build them.
Once you have these totals, you know the basic values that we will be working with. The values you have just calculated are the average time and cost factors for the project. To determine the actual time and cost involved, we must go through a few more steps.
==Works of Art==
Of course, all of the above values have been generated with the thought of a typical castle in mind. If you wish to build an ornate complex that is both a fortress and a work of art, you may do so by adding an additional 50% to the cost and time required for your project. Such structures as this are rare in the extreme, of course, and are usually reserved for the seat of a great king or mighty emperor.
Lesser structures, like the wooden buildings or free-standing towers, can be made ornate in a similar fashion. Further, it is possible to have part of a castle be ornate, the main keep is an obvious choice, while the curtain walls and outer defenses are more structural. To do this, just apply the increased cost and time to the specific module being selected.
If desired, a castle can be made very spartan. In such cases it will not be a comfortable place to live in, but will still fill its role as a military fortress. Spartan castles cost 25% less to build and require 25% less time.
==Overhead Costs==
Overhead costs are assumed to include a great many things that are not detailed in this system. Overhead includes the time spent recruiting and training workers, obtaining food and housing for the labor force, and filling the castle with furniture and the like when the project is finished.
For the sake of simplicity, overhead is always assumed to add an extra 10% to the castle's cost and time. Thus, a castle that has a total cost of 250,000 gold pieces would cost 275,000 when overhead is figured in. The construction time required is likewise increased.
==Final Calculations==
Once you have established the base cost and the overhead costs, you can figure out exactly how long it will take to build your castle and how much of your precious gold you are going to have to part with before its done. To do this, simply total the base and overhead values that you have calculated and multiply them both by the production modifier (PM) generated in the first part of the castle construction procedure.
==Castle on the Moors==
Going back to the Castle on the Moors project, we can total up the costs and times required as follows:
* Eight small, square tower mod ules cost a total of 112,000 gold pieces to build and require 6,720 man/weeks of work.
* Our wall requires 70 sections with a glacis, which requires 3,080 man/weeks to build and costs 50,400 gold pieces to finance.
* The upper levels of our wall require 214 standard wall sections, for a total of 6,420 man/weeks and 107,000 gold pieces.
* The wooden floors and roofing will require 384 wooden wall sections. The total time required for this phase of construction is 384 man/weeks and the total cost is 1,920 gold pieces. As you can see, this is cheap when compared to the rest of the project.
The castle is not intended to be overly ornate-after all, it's in the middle of a swamp. However, the knight who must live here is not expected to be uncomfortable. Hence, the castle will not be spartan either. Cost and production time values are unmodified.
Thus, our total cost for the construction of this castle is 271,320 gold pieces. When we add in the overhead charges (which work out to be 27,132 gold pieces) we bring our total up to 298,452quite a lot of money.
As far as construction time is concerned, our base value works out as 16,604 man/weeks of labor. When we add our 10% overhead time to that, we have a total of 18,264 man/weeks-quite a lot of work, as well.
We're almost through, but now we have to remember that these values assume that we are working in perfectly average conditions. The Castle on the Moors is being built in a region of swamps, far from its base of supplies. All of these things are part of our PM, which we determined was 2.81 in the first phase of design.
Our next step is to multiply our most recent values for cost and time by our PM. When we do this. we find that our castle will actually require 51,322 man/weeks to build. Further, it will cost us a staggering 838,650 gold pieces.