Just bought EUII

[unmerged(45283)]

Hi, just purchased EUII and downloaded the patches, including the beta patch. Is there any other general game-playing improvement mod that I should install or you guys recommend?

Also, how does inflation work? In my first scenairo it just kep climbing.

 

[boehm]

Hi, just purchased EUII and downloaded the patches, including the beta patch. Is there any other general game-playing improvement mod that I should install or you guys recommend?

Also, how does inflation work? In my first scenairo it just kep climbing.

Two mods I like playing are:

AGEEP is a quite popular MOD with many more events and leaders....

Europa Portugalis, which is basically the standard campaign with some ai-tweaking and boosted ai-cheats to help the historical MPs to perform as they should....since you just bought the game, its probably not a big necessity to keep it challenging...

regarding inflation and stuff....try reading the FAQ section there are some excellent articles on the details of managing your economy etc.

if you should then have more questions come back and I'll be glad to help out

 

[BadBoyWar]

Hi, just purchased EUII and
Also, how does inflation work? In my first scenairo it just kep climbing.

Inflation will grow unless you lock your treasury slider all the way to the left (leaving all income to go into investments, running at a monthly deficit).

To control inflation, live off your census tax (your yearly income) and keep your inflation as low as you can until you get to infrastructure level 5 (then you can convert mayors to governors, who fight inflation). Until you can get to infra 5, keep your inflation down, and the occasional deflation event will help you.

 

[unmerged(45754)]

Yea, you always want to keep inflation down if possible. I recommend promoting tax collectors in same culture, same religious provinces ASAP as it will net you a great deal of money that you can really use.

In my first game, as Spain, I had about 65% inflation when I quit in about 1550 or so. And that was after a giant deflation event! So yes, try to keep inflation down, when you get infra 5 you can promote mayors to governors, which allows you to reduce inflation.

 

[unmerged(40258)]

I hate wasting those deflation events, thats why i NEVER play with below 5% inflation. when i am at 0% and get one of those, i almost cry..

 

[unmerged(36763)]

Something I'm curious about, why is it that running a monthly deficit doesnt drive you into debt?

 

[unmerged(40258)]

Something I'm curious about, why is it that running a monthly deficit doesnt drive you into debt?

because the minus ducats are taken not from the treasury, but from the investments. So, at 0 ducats in treasury, researching , say, trade with a monthly income of 100 and a military maintenance of 10, you get only 90 ducat per month investment in trade from income.

IF your monthly income is lower than your expenses(military maintenance plus loans interest), the minus ducats cannot be taken all from the investments(monthly income) and therefore you are forced to take a loan. unless the maintenance is severely lowered or income drastically raised, this often leads to more loans and eventually bankruptcy.

 

[unmerged(45754)]

See, I don't mind the deflation events so much. I'm playing the Ottomans, it's 1740 or so, and I'm just /rolling/ in dough. I never ever have to worry about money, or inflation.I own everywhere from part of Hungary, all the way to Arabia, with everything in between (i.e. the balkans, turkey, middle east) all of north Africa, and most of west africa, and I just conquered the Aztecs about 2 years prior, so my nice little Empire has no worry of money

Only problem is that I have crap monarchs until 1770 or so, so conversions don't go through well.

 

[Sleepyhead]

Why would anyone mind getting deflation events?
They are good.

 

[Lamprey]

Something I'm curious about, why is it that running a monthly deficit doesnt drive you into debt?

Why would it, if yearly income results in a surplus in your treasury to cover it? If you run out of money then monthly deficit will drive you into debt... logical.

 

[boehm]

Why would anyone mind getting deflation events?
They are good.

because they would rather have a free manufactury event?!

 

[unmerged(14689)]

Why would anyone mind getting deflation events?
They are good.

They are good, yes, but if you are at 0% inflation (which I usually am), you feel like you just wasted a good event. And that's why some intentionally play with a few percentages of inflation; to benefit from a deflation event. I think it's not really sound economics, but hey...