The Yakuza Office is a type of business chain building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
Men of chivalry do much for the people.
A yakuza office may not be an entirely legal business, but it is a business and it does improve the commercial activity in a province. The protection extended by the yakuza also improves the happiness of the local people, and improves the quality of geisha recruited in the same province. Only one yakuza office can be built.
The yakuza can trace their origins back to two groups: peddlers and gamblers. Nobles and samurai were at the top of the social hierarchy. Oddly, townsfolk of all kinds ranked below "honest" peasants, and itinerant traders were considered even lower. They were forced to gang together to protect themselves during markets. Gamblers were similarly considered of very low status, but they had access to money, and often acted as loan sharks and informal financiers. The yakuza, then, were united in the face of social scorn, but behaved with considerable decorum towards each other. Even today, and unlike many organised criminals, they rarely attack people outside "the life".
General Information[]
Requires 9500 gold, 9 turns, Richi Mahjong Parlour, tea resource.
- +1500 to wealth generated by trade in this province
- +4 per turn to town growth from trade within this province
- +5 to happiness in this province
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 geisha
Clan Effects
- -2 to modernisation (clan development)
Yakuza offices provide a very large happiness bonus to the province they're built in, on top of an impressive wealth growth. Yakuza offices pay for themselves in 55-66 turns, depending on how much the extra happiness is contributing to neutral to positive public order. The benefits of a Yakuza Office are so large that it is almost always worth it to build one, particularly in a province burdened with high unhappiness from modern buildings. Unlike its modern cousin, the Junin Ryogae, the Yakuza office has no technology requirements and therefore can be built as soon as funds allow. Contrary to what the description implies, Yakuza Offices do not increase the starting rank of geisha recruited in the province.
As only one Yakuza Office may be built, it is usually prudent to build one in a province with the highest settlement chain building possible, to maximize tax income. While only one Yakuza Office can be built, a faction can control more than one if it captures provinces with more Yakuza Offices--a highly lucrative endeavor for those lucky enough to find such provinces.
All buildings in the business chain are considered civil buildings, and benefit from decreases in cost and construction time granted by certain events and missions. Taking advantage of such events can make large amounts of extra money in the long run.