I never paid too much attention to loans until this contest. The lack of cloth, hemp, and pitch forced me to go another route. There is some sytem behind my "insanity" It's called around 600 ships by the end of 1301
London, Bremen and Hamburg have completed construction of their walls and are working on other fortifications. Ladoga and Stettin are completely placed while Oslo and Bruegge are about 50% placed and Bergen lacks behind at about 25% placed and constructed.
In Ladoga the inventory of building materials is slowly growing in anticipation of Novgorod as next NPT. Until I have enough apiaries it does not matter where I go since I will not be able to generate the goods I want. By the time the 3rd NPT becomes available I should have enough IG and honey to be able to become selective.
What I can't understand is that I keep on getting timber; I have enough leather (not lacking anywhere) and huge stocks of meat. I would like wool plus I will try to tamper with hemp stocks; we do need more whalers; just two ports is not enough. Due to exclusive use of the hemp trick I only have enough hemp farms to cover the need of the fisher and hunting lodges.