Inflation

[unmerged(58292)]

Hello! First post in EU2 world. I started with Victoria and found that these Paradox games are addictive. So I had to order EU2 and, well, here I am...

I was hoping someone could direct me to a thread on inflation or just give me some tips on how to keep or get it down. I am playing Scotland and after years of war with England and Eire I have let it slip a bit - to the tune of 21%. I have repayed all loans and am looking to get the economy back on track. Infra level 2.

BTW - I saw the recent thread on inflation and it seemed to digress into a discussion about gold producing provences and didn't have a real outline of what steps to take to get it DOWN, more preventative type stuff.

 

[Finnish Dragon]

In this moment, there is no way to keep inflation at that. I suggest that you will spend 90% of your monthly income at army, navy, trade and infra development and take 10% to your treasury.

You need to buy tac collectors and judges to all provinces to maximize your income. What you real need are governors and developing them will take about 200 years. When you can build governors then build them to every province you have and you can really let them to start decreasing inflation. That is the only strategy to actively decrease inflation.

 

[unmerged(53580)]

getting inflation down is a pain...
It's much easier to avoid inflation than to reduce it.

To avoid it pull the "to treasury"-slider all the way to the left in the budget.
Deflation can be achieved via random events, or by building governors, if you have governors in all provs you gain 0,25 deflation a year.

 

[miloc]

21.1% inflation in 1447 is high. I would recomment a rigid 0%inflation policy for the next 150 years....It is going to be tough. Try to knock out the English asap before they make a comeback. Also concentrate on infra/trade-tech, and search for empty slots for your merchants to increase your income so that you can somehow compensate the high inflation. That's what I would do.

 

[unmerged(49082)]

I haven't really played any EU2 game since I bought Vicky but Wiki might contain some information on the subject. In the general you need to avoid inflation occuring in the first place. When it already is it may be very hard to get rid of it. You get inflation for having too many gold provinces, by bordering a country with gold and primarily by minting money, i.e. putting less then 100% of your monthly income into your treasury instead of research. Inflation is the most subtile aspect of EU2 just as pop management is for Vicky.