What's the AI doing with its money and how does it prioritize buildings? I'm currently in 1650s as France and my monthly income is 199, followed by Spain 179, Russia 150 and Portugal 147, however all AI nations have like a few hundred ducats in bank, while I have always over 3-4k, and I have almost every tier 4 buildings and like 75% manufactories built in all my provinces, while the AI has almost none manufactories, Portugal has 1, Spain 2, etc... Like, what's going on? On what are they wasting money and how come they don't give a crap on manufactories? Now, since you cannot see the profit in the ledgers (at least I don't think so), I assume the AI's problem is profit, does the AI ALWAYS keep land maintenance at 100% even during peace time or what?! Thanks.
AI, money, buildings
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The AI unlike human rarely knows when to fold so when they start to lose a war instead of trying to cut their losses they drain their treasury by buying a horde of mercenaries in all provinces. This results in a lot of nations that have been in the "gank train" being so broke it isn't even funny.
Generally speaking the AI is very rich though and if they have prolonged peace they will usually out build and produce the human player.
Generally speaking the AI is very rich though and if they have prolonged peace they will usually out build and produce the human player.
This game I had HRE minor Frankfurt sit on 5000 gold and then it was conquered by another minor: Gelre.
This should not have happened as it could have bought enough Mercenaries to shield himself from all other minors. I mean if they would have been conquered by France or Austria that is OK but not by another minor.
This should not have happened as it could have bought enough Mercenaries to shield himself from all other minors. I mean if they would have been conquered by France or Austria that is OK but not by another minor.
OK, so the AI does not recruit mercenaries then until the war has already started and then if an enemy moves onto the OPM it cannot do that anymore? Then maybe there could be some mechanic that tells an AI that sits on thousands of gold to actually do something with it. I think bigger countries do that but OPMs somehow can't probably because they stop buying stuff once they have all the buildings and maxed their land force limit or so? In that case I think they could just invest in an army above their natural force limit or so.
OP completely accurate.
AI is wasting its entire economy buying mercenaries in already lost wars and then it is not making peace due to "lenght of war" modifier.
AI is wasting its entire economy buying mercenaries in already lost wars and then it is not making peace due to "lenght of war" modifier.