I'm a bit surprised by some of the tax values themselves too... Slovenia (which is Austrian culture in the game) has a very high tax base.
We already did a thread a few weeks ago discussing the Austrian gold mines. The one's in the alps are easily explained, yes, but I don't think we found one for the gold mines in Slovenia.
As many of Europe's biggest silver and gold mines are unrepresented in the game it seems that there must be a purpose for these ones. If it is just balance perhaps it's a bit overdone? Austria tends to do very well in the game, often kicking the Ottomans (in the instances when the Ottomans aren't killed immediately by the hordes) out of the Balkans in the 15th-16th century (when in real life they did so mostly in the 17th - 19th century).
We already did a thread a few weeks ago discussing the Austrian gold mines. The one's in the alps are easily explained, yes, but I don't think we found one for the gold mines in Slovenia.
As many of Europe's biggest silver and gold mines are unrepresented in the game it seems that there must be a purpose for these ones. If it is just balance perhaps it's a bit overdone? Austria tends to do very well in the game, often kicking the Ottomans (in the instances when the Ottomans aren't killed immediately by the hordes) out of the Balkans in the 15th-16th century (when in real life they did so mostly in the 17th - 19th century).