I am ahead of time in all techs and ponder simply minting full blast for manufactories. Is this a worthwhile investment?
Your thoughts.
Your thoughts.
Minting for manufactories VS ahead of time penalty
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Bah, what the heck, in the end it will only speed up your tech... I`d say go for it... You are loosing money anyway from your research as you are ahead of time
With a monthly income of 230 after expenses, and a manufactory cost of about 2200 atm, it means about .7 inflation per manufactory.
My reasoning is that I will inflate for manus while ahead of time is high, and revert to teching while it is low.
I should specify that this is a MP game so most important is efficiency. A 3-7 tech lead translates to a lot of heart ache for my neighbours which is far more important in a MP game than in SP.
My reasoning is that I will inflate for manus while ahead of time is high, and revert to teching while it is low.
I should specify that this is a MP game so most important is efficiency. A 3-7 tech lead translates to a lot of heart ache for my neighbours which is far more important in a MP game than in SP.
Go hells bells for constables to give you more inflation reduction. Then mint as much as you can without inflation.
tax assessors give inflation reduction, and the year for Gov 31 is 1660. We are still in 1480 so it's a ways off.
tax assessors give inflation reduction, and the year for Gov 31 is 1660. We are still in 1480 so it's a ways off.
you could always try and threaten to rageemoquit if you don't get an inflation reduction?
Uncalled for.
My friendship with you is hurting me in the Wednesday game.
And, yes, you will never get to live that down.
well, superior tech does give your neighbors (assuming at least one of them is a human) a nice research bonus...
A very good point, actually.
It may be better to tech slower and build a good base of manufactories and treasury, and restart the hyperteching later.
A very, very interesting idea.
Edit: Damn, since I am relatively small and have optimized my sliders for research, I am effectively dragging along the other nations in my slip stream. I will always remain well ahead, but I will give them extremely lucrative boosts all the while. Time to sit down and crunch the numbers!
1480.. go for americas and africa and take all of their money. take their land and sell it back to them. that should pay for all of the manufacturies you'll ever need. especially if you're playing httt and you're up to 30 provinces
From my experience the neighbour bonus isn't that big (compared to EU2 at least). If your human players have a larrge economy, I doubt that the neighbour bonus will help that much.
I took a look see, and England got about 40d/month over 5 techs in neighbourbonus, or a full 50% of his income. That's by any account massive.
I had assumed it would be more, but despite having only a third of my income he had reduced the techlag substantially (land 9/14 at start, land 15/17 40 or so years later)
It is big but that reduction in the gap is not as big as you might think. Level 9 and above I think are much faster than the levels below them (or maybe it's just cos of workshops). So you probably weren't as far ahead as those numbers show, but it is still quite worrying for you. Anyway of disconnecting your borders?
Neighbour bonus, despite the name, is not given only to neighbours, but to everyone in the same tech group. Hence, rocketing ahead in tech comes at a cost.
I'm contemplating simply minting and banking most of it until I have enough to carpet my country with manufactories, only stopping to tech once the ahead of time penalty is gone.
