How do you control inflation now?

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It used to be that when you got infra tech level 5 you could start building governors and each one knocked one percent off your inflation rate. Now, with patch 1.08 I believe (or was it a beta patch) governors knock .01 percent off the rate of increase of your inflation rate and any amount of coining at all, at least for a small country, means that inflation continues to increase during the 18th century. This seems counter-historical, as rates of increase of prices declined in the early 18th century outside of Iberia and there was the beginnings of deflation by the end of the century in Britain. Maybe the old way of doing things in the game was too dramatic (I almost always would have my inflation down under 5% by 1750 or so) but maybe the effect of governors should be greater than .01. I'd suggest at least .1, maybe with a divisor for country size so that Russia or Britain would have a tougher time overcoming inflation than the Netherlands.

Or am I overlooking something?

 

[Lurken]

You have to build as many governers as possible, you get more deflation the more governers you got in all your provinces. To get a full -.25% a year, you need governers in all your provs.

 

[DSYoungEsq]

It used to be that when you got infra tech level 5 you could start building governors and each one knocked one percent off your inflation rate. Now, with patch 1.08 I believe (or was it a beta patch) governors knock .01 percent off the rate of increase of your inflation rate and any amount of coining at all, at least for a small country, means that inflation continues to increase during the 18th century. This seems counter-historical, as rates of increase of prices declined in the early 18th century outside of Iberia and there was the beginnings of deflation by the end of the century in Britain. Maybe the old way of doing things in the game was too dramatic (I almost always would have my inflation down under 5% by 1750 or so) but maybe the effect of governors should be greater than .01. I'd suggest at least .1, maybe with a divisor for country size so that Russia or Britain would have a tougher time overcoming inflation than the Netherlands.

Or am I overlooking something?

You misunderstand how it works now.

A country gets deflation at the following rate: (# of Govs/# of cities)*.25%/12. That amount is then added to whatever inflation is incurred from gold and "minting" of money to arrive at the actual monthly in/deflation. Thus, it doesn't matter how big or small you are, you have to promote the same ratio of governors to get the same inflation. For Spain, this becomes problematic, given the size of its empire. As some have noted, it becomes quite uneconomical in the midst of a WC campaign.

 

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As the Ottomans I was able to do it without a great deal of trouble, and I had an empire larger than the Ottomans at their height. Granted it did take a while though.