Originally posted by von Curow:
I have no good answer, but I would like to add a question to this... When you vassalize a state, it says in the manual that you receive a portion of their income. Where can you see how much you are receiving from your vassals? Under the list of income, there does not seem to be a category for this (it could be my German, however).
Sorry there is no seperate post for this, but instead it is part of your 'tax income'.
And related to the issue of COTs... Playing as Austria, I noticed often that countries which controlled a COT were very often able to build a monopoly there and then rather quickly, and easily push everyone else's traders out of the COT. Playing as Venice, i thought I would be able to do the same thing, but I was wrong. It is cheap for me to build a monopoly, but impossible to keep, and I seem unable to push more than one or two other merchants out before I have lost my monopoly. What's the deal?
Well, the problem here is that Venice and Flanders for example are some of the most beloved places for the minors to put their merchants. Its the nature of european economy. The most important CoTs will have the highest competition.
/Greven
Gotta pay for college somehow...
