No penalty for endless loans? Hello?? RE: quill18's

[Jake Dust]

Something I've been wondering: Can you lower your inflation by any means other than paying your loans? If so, you could actually take a loan at a certain inflation value, lower the inflation to a point beneath said value and pay the loan back with a net plus, unless I've totally misunderstood the whole inflation system of EU IV. I know that several brokering companies used to (or maybe still) do a similar scheme and being able to do that in EU IV would be hilarious. Unfortunately it wouldn't have the same consequences as in real life and you'd basically cheat the whole system.

You forgot to take the interest into account. If you get a 100d loan with a 4% interest rate, you will have to pay back 104d, no matter what happens, and I don't think inflation factors in the interest, but I may be wrong.

Also, paying backs loans doesn't lower your inflation, the only things that lower it (AFAIR) are one of the administrative ideas, one kind of advisor and random events.

Edit: Oh, if you get all the administrative ideas, you also have the option to manually lower your inflation using monarch points.

 

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in the game inflation increases the cost of the following:
inflation = {
build_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step.
infantry_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
cavalry_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
artillery_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
heavy_ship_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
light_ship_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
galley_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
transport_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
advisor_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
mercenary_cost = 0.01 #1% for each inflation step
}

 

[spinoza013]

... the only things that lower it (AFAIR) are one of the administrative ideas, one kind of advisor and random events.

You can definitely lower it with Admin Points ( I think) but only once it gets past 2.0. It's on the Finance screen I think bottom left.

 

[possumcorpse]

You can definitely lower it with Admin Points ( I think) but only once it gets past 2.0. It's on the Finance screen I think bottom left.

Isn't that only unlocked with a national idea?

 

[Jake Dust]

You can definitely lower it with Admin Points ( I think) but only once it gets past 2.0. It's on the Finance screen I think bottom left.

Yeah, I forgot about it, but it requires finishing the administrative idea group, it's on the tooltip.

 

[spinoza013]

Yeah, I forgot about it, but it requires finishing the administrative idea group, it's on the tooltip.

Ah I see, I wasn't near 2 inflation so missed that. Thanks . Good to know and makes sense

 

[wickermoon]

Yeah, I played around with the demo again yesterday and noticed that my idea of inflation and paradox's idea of inflation aren't necessarily the same ideas. Thanks for the replies, though

 

[Gemberkoekje]

Yeah, I played around with the demo again yesterday and noticed that my idea of inflation and paradox's idea of inflation aren't necessarily the same ideas. Thanks for the replies, though

You should stop thinking about balloons.

 

[knul]

Yeah, I played around with the demo again yesterday and noticed that my idea of inflation and paradox's idea of inflation aren't necessarily the same ideas. Thanks for the replies, though

Can't blame you, EU's inflation has always been a bit odd compared to the real thing. In EU3, I think it would be better named "corruption" or something in that vein.