I just posted a questions regarding Prestige in the other thread
*here*, but since I also have some other newbie questions, I thought I'd post them here.
1) Where is the HRE button that's supposed to be on edge of the screen on the right hand side with the Papal influence button? I'm playing as the Teutonic Order and have several of my provinces in the HRE, but I don't see the icon/button anywhere...
2) What can I do about the Inflation? I'm now like 35 years in the game, and already have 12% inflation... Obviously I need to have a certain amount of income allocated to the "treasury" so I don't go bankrupt, but that causes inevitable inflation and there's no way - apart from the one advisor - to reduce it? The two-star advisor that I have reduces inflation by something like 0.4% every year, while having income allocated to the treasure increases it by 0.8% every year... looks like a losing battle.
Correction: The two-star advisor reduces inflation by 0.04 units per year, while it is increased yearly by almost twice that.
3) What about trading? Is it possible to actually make some big money with it? Does it matter which CoT I send my traders to? Is there a strategy to it, or do I just simply keep sending all my traders to a CoT and hope for the best?
4) My navy sucks. My mighty fleet of 13 galleys and 3 carracks is constantly getting humiliated by enemy fleets who only have like 12 galleys in them. I do have the maintenances at max level, and land - navy slider just slightly to the land side. Is there something I can do about that?
5) The technology sliders... it doesn't look like it makes much difference which tech I'm focusing on, since by far the most contribution towards any tech come from the "current ruler" and "neighbour bonus", which means that all the techs will advance at more or less the same pace regardless of where I focus my budget?
Thanks in advance