In this phase, you will decide how much grain to release from your granaries. The grain demand is shown on this dialogue. If you release less grain than the demand, there will be starvation and many of your serfs will die. Your other classes will be affected but not as severely. If you release more than the demand your population should grow. If you relase more than the demand in excess of 35 percent, you will encourage immigration of serfs and possibly nobles, clergy, and merchants to your city-state. Serfs who immigrate to your city-state are often accompanied by an immigration of merchants.

The number of serfs, nobles, clergy, and merchants affect the probability of promotion. However, you must have enough land and serfs to cultivate it to produce enough grain to feed them next year. Keep in mind that grain production is affected by the weather and rats will eat a percentage of the grain.

You must release at least 20 percent of your grain reserves. You may not release more than 80 percent of your grain reserves. That is, you must keep at least 20 percent of your grain reserves as seed to plant next year.

When you have decided how much grain you will release from your granaries, enter the number of steres of grain you will release and press the 'RELEASE' button. The current grain demand is already enter in textbox by default. If you decide to release more or less, change the value. Once you have pressed the 'RELEASE' button, the 'NEXT=>' button will be enabled. Press the 'NEXT=>' button to advance to the 'CENSUS OF SERFS' phase.

There is an unseen factor called the economic value that works behind the scenes and affects all aspects of your enconomy. Releasing less grain than the demand will be detrimental to your economic value. However, if you release more grain than the demand, it will have positive effects on the economic value.

Designer's Notes:
The original interface was text scrolled and typed onto the screen. This was replaced by this dialogue for this version. There was no 'GRANARY' phase in the original verion. That name was added by this author.