Private Wealth? Inheritance?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Wealth amassed by characters, is it inherited by thir siblings/spouses/heirs upon their death? Of just lost?

If there's inheritance it might really help with the consolidation of the powerful families in mainly Rome, helping to create the necesarry prereqs for a massive civil war near the end of the game.

 

[leefbern]

Wealth amassed by characters, is it inherited by thir siblings/spouses/heirs upon their death? Of just lost?

I think so. I saw a character go from 10,000d to 20,000d. I assume that he and his father were equally wealthy and he inherited.

 

[Sekenr]

I think so. I saw a character go from 10,000d to 20,000d. I assume that he and his father were equally wealthy and he inherited.

Maybe he just bet it all on red?

 

[Wdll]

Maybe he just bet it all on red?

I don't know but i find it funny that most of my characters have (EACH) more money than my whole country can gather in a century or more.

 

[Zaku]

I don't know but i find it funny that most of my characters have (EACH) more money than my whole country can gather in a century or more.

That is quite historical.

 

[Wdll]

That is quite historical.

More in Feudal Europe than those times.

 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

technically the country should ahve the private wealth of its ruler available too. There wasn't really a concept of a seperate state-treasury at that time. Not even in Rome, especially not in Rome.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Crassus sure wasn't hurting for money. Neither was Pompey or Caesar. The fact that individuals could assume control of huge swaths of territory as their private preserve made it possible for them to amass huge amounts of wealth.

 

[BlkbrryTheGreat]

technically the country should ahve the private wealth of its ruler available too. There wasn't really a concept of a seperate state-treasury at that time. Not even in Rome, especially not in Rome.

I'm just curious as to what events there are to get a ruler to spend his personal treasury and what triggers there are for these events.

The only one I know of thus far is triggered by a negative country treasury- the ruler makes a personal donation.

 

[joriandrake]

More in Feudal Europe than those times.

nah, just think Pharaohs: they were super rich while Egypt itself might had been poor at that time

 

[leefbern]

technically the country should ahve the private wealth of its ruler available too. There wasn't really a concept of a seperate state-treasury at that time. Not even in Rome, especially not in Rome.

Anyone play Avalon Hill's Republic of Rome? It simulated this by giving Rome a treasury and giving most wealth to political factions. In peace times the factions used the money to grab power and the treasury was poor. But once the elephants started marching on Rome the factions would contribute liberally to the treasury to raise legions and fleets. And of course there were fun prisoners' dilemmas as factions decided how grave the treat was and whether Rome could survive without their contribution.

I'm excited about families and private wealth in EU3:Rome. I'd like to see events like, Gauis Jim-Bob has offered the Consul money for the governorship of Apulia. Or, Jim-Bob's family has contributed money to the state and gained popularity.

 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

sounds like a good mechanism, close enough to what was probably reality.

Johan? something for a patch or addon?