Make the windmills in Boston usable at a fee...

[JeffGV]

...cause, at things stands now, the windmill you can build is as costly as useless.
It would have sense if making flour would have a cost if you're using Boston's mills, either as a fee in silvers or as a small percentage of the flour produced (the so called "miller's toll"). The second suggestion would actually be more historically accurate, by the way.

[Sevenless]

Think I mentioned this to someone a while back, but I'm not sure if I ever actually wrote it up on the ideas forum XD

I'd prefer miller's flour toll, just so poor noobs can still eat their crackers.

[Potjeh]

Ideally, there wouldn't be any mills in Boston, and we'd have phlegm-guzzling querns to grind flour before we build our own mills. It's cost is stupid high, so getting access to a mill of your own should be a big productivity boost. Speaking of which, I guess it could also autogrind, like a stamp mill (but then the grinding time would have to be increased to make it matter).

[Sevenless]

Ideally, there wouldn't be any mills in Boston, and we'd have phlegm-guzzling querns to grind flour before we build our own mills. It's cost is stupid high, so getting access to a mill of your own should be a big productivity boost. Speaking of which, I guess it could also autogrind, like a stamp mill (but then the grinding time would have to be increased to make it matter).

That's another option I'd be ok with.