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BloodNinja
United States2791 Posts
On August 01 2011 04:02 Ramong wrote: 40% inflation!?! omg.. You might want the national bank National Idea AND stop minting :p And hire a master of the Mint advisor | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
or five ? no but seriously, I never get above 3 inflation, trying to stay below 1. Though I hear there is some strategy with getting National Bank Idea and a high Master of the Mint, and minting a lot.. I haven't tried it, but I would suspect that it would hurt your tech advancement a lot, since you sacrifices tech investment and a advisor for treasury minting and inflation reduction. ps: BOXER FIGHTING! | ||
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Sweden2708 Posts
On August 01 2011 05:52 Ramong wrote: or five ? no but seriously, I never get above 3 inflation, trying to stay below 1. Though I hear there is some strategy with getting National Bank Idea and a high Master of the Mint, and minting a lot.. I haven't tried it, but I would suspect that it would hurt your tech advancement a lot, since you sacrifices tech investment and a advisor for treasury minting and inflation reduction. ps: BOXER FIGHTING! Minting is absolutely necessary as a smaller country and/or poor income. I usually mint as much I can with 0 % inflation. (Masters of the mint + national bank) In general money seems to be far more useful than tech. Sure it's a long term game but the gains you can get with things that costs money more than make up for the lost tech. On the other hand inflation is the bane of empires so only mint when you have good - inflation OR when you will die if you don't. | ||
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BloodNinja
United States2791 Posts
On August 01 2011 06:02 CuddlyCuteKitten wrote: Minting is absolutely necessary as a smaller country and/or poor income. I usually mint as much I can with 0 % inflation. (Masters of the mint + national bank) In general money seems to be far more useful than tech. Sure it's a long term game but the gains you can get with things that costs money more than make up for the lost tech. On the other hand inflation is the bane of empires so only mint when you have good - inflation OR when you will die if you don't. Since I've started playing I have mostly played smaller countries that have backwards sliders in regards to trade. I try and keep a high ranked master of the mint up most the time to allow me to mint some cash. It has allowed me to outlast the CPU a few times where they go bankrupt in a war as i whittle away at piles of cash. I picture my leader as Scourge McDuck swimming in his pool of gold coins. I haven't used National Bank yet. I may have to try that next game. | ||
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Sweden2708 Posts
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BloodNinja
United States2791 Posts
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Sweden2708 Posts
However, Pressgangs (50 % less ship costs, yes this applies to upkeep as well) is also insane if you want to own the sea. QFTNW if you want to colonize of course. +10 % compete chance or 10 % + income from trading (preferbly both) if I'm a trading nation. I don't think I've played a game when my first 3 ideas have been some kind of combo of the above or national bank. | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
what about the 25% increase in tariffs, worth it ? | ||
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BeigeVolvo
Norway17 Posts
On August 01 2011 06:41 Ramong wrote: I can vouch for the need for Press gangs as a large naval colonial empire. what about the 25% increase in tariffs, worth it ? In the most recent patch it is 33%. And yes, it's definitely worth it after a while. | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On August 01 2011 06:41 Ramong wrote: I can vouch for the need for Press gangs as a large naval colonial empire. what about the 25% increase in tariffs, worth it ? very situational and only usefull in a late game when you got lots of colonies Look at your money tab and what you get your money from. Decide based on what gives you the most money. | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
Suddenly Austria declared war on France, and France called for my help. I thought to myself that, yeah why not Flanders could go and help France some. I believed that France with its vassals and Flanders could take Austria who wasn't that big, but Emperor, so I did not look at the war at all. Then suddenly I got the message that a province has lost a siege, I looked at France an saw that it was mostly taken over by Austria and that Austria had begun attacking me with 60+ soldiers, and I had 25.. Had to release Flanders and annul alliance with France. France got an even worse deal, it had to release 8 or so nations who then was allied with Austria.. Good thing that I am still the only 1 with QFTNW and all ready have most of the Carabian and middle America | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
 But in this case France was so large and Austria wasn't much larger than when the game started, and France usually have enough manpower to stand up to the Emperor, so I did not think they could lose this much | ||
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BloodNinja
United States2791 Posts
Ugh, this jsut comes across as lazy game design and the first major issue I have had in this game. | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On August 01 2011 15:30 BloodNinja wrote: Small rage/rant - Fighting against hordes is re-fucking-diculous. I have to colonize every fucking province 1 by 1 with latin fucking tech and near (if not sub) 50% colonize chances on any given territory. Ugh, this jsut comes across as lazy game design and the first major issue I have had in this game. why should that be lazy design. You want the lazy design. The system how it works in EU3 is closer to reality then what you want. Or can you tell me how you want to conquer empty provinces which have no cities? ^^ | ||
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Vequeth
United Kingdom1116 Posts
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BeigeVolvo
Norway17 Posts
On August 01 2011 22:12 Vequeth wrote: Ok so im Protestant and I just got the National Idea that lets you declare war on heretics without CB, dont Catholics/Reformed count as heretics for this? It gives you the holy war CB on heretics, and in your case that would be catholics, reformed and orthodox. On a sidenote, before 1600 it also gives you the holy war cb on infidels iirc, although I might be mixing up the different ideas, there are a number of ways of getting the holy war cb. | ||
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
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coko
United Kingdom570 Posts
With a country like France how do you all do it? | ||
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