Magic Money
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:59 am
Two thoughts about 1.04 after 80/90 turns as Epirus :
-IA now knows how to use fleets, that is a big plus. Lots of blockades, took me a while to reunify Greece as Epirus does not start with a decent fleet/harbor. Macedonia is now almost over, unfortunately, Antigonids and Seleukos already imploded which means I can (probably) win the game just by swallowing the new small states which now occupy the former Antigonid realm. Antigonid literally suddenly disappeared (all provinces turned grey) and 2 turns after Pergamon and the likes mushroomed here and there. But the power fleets of the greek city-states were a real pain to deal with, congrats.
-leads to my main point : money. While it was indeed too easy to become rich and less money/more pop in commerce is a good fix, the result is somehow random. Quick example :
turn 71, I forgot how much I had but it was written X (current value)(+105) when I press the Nex turn button. I then expected to get X+105. But what I got (T72) was "70 (+99)". Ok, nevermind. Next turn, T73, money went to "56 (+71)". Why ? When I go to T72, my T72 money has nothing to do with the values given during T71, same, T73 money is not the Value(+/-modifier) [here, T72 10(+99)] given in T72. I just know if I will get or lose money, which was ok in this campaign but can be a hell in other situations.
It was like that pretty much during the whole game. I just wrote down these 3 turns after I decided I wanted to post something here. Forces me to do a lot of micro-management because suddenly it goes down too sharply, suddenly I gain too much and can instead promote infrastructure, etc...bit of a burden. M fine with transfering pop from A to B but not every turn/2 turns because I suddenly face bankruptcy whereas I was supposedly at TX(+134) 1 turn ago (and never got these 134 denarii).
Have to say, also happened when my main provinces are not blockaded.
Also, tried Antigonids, seems impossible as I just bankrupt really quickly. Can't handle 5 wars + decadence + bankruptcy, if someone did it I would be very interested about his strategy because I can not think of anything.
-IA now knows how to use fleets, that is a big plus. Lots of blockades, took me a while to reunify Greece as Epirus does not start with a decent fleet/harbor. Macedonia is now almost over, unfortunately, Antigonids and Seleukos already imploded which means I can (probably) win the game just by swallowing the new small states which now occupy the former Antigonid realm. Antigonid literally suddenly disappeared (all provinces turned grey) and 2 turns after Pergamon and the likes mushroomed here and there. But the power fleets of the greek city-states were a real pain to deal with, congrats.
-leads to my main point : money. While it was indeed too easy to become rich and less money/more pop in commerce is a good fix, the result is somehow random. Quick example :
turn 71, I forgot how much I had but it was written X (current value)(+105) when I press the Nex turn button. I then expected to get X+105. But what I got (T72) was "70 (+99)". Ok, nevermind. Next turn, T73, money went to "56 (+71)". Why ? When I go to T72, my T72 money has nothing to do with the values given during T71, same, T73 money is not the Value(+/-modifier) [here, T72 10(+99)] given in T72. I just know if I will get or lose money, which was ok in this campaign but can be a hell in other situations.
It was like that pretty much during the whole game. I just wrote down these 3 turns after I decided I wanted to post something here. Forces me to do a lot of micro-management because suddenly it goes down too sharply, suddenly I gain too much and can instead promote infrastructure, etc...bit of a burden. M fine with transfering pop from A to B but not every turn/2 turns because I suddenly face bankruptcy whereas I was supposedly at TX(+134) 1 turn ago (and never got these 134 denarii).
Have to say, also happened when my main provinces are not blockaded.
Also, tried Antigonids, seems impossible as I just bankrupt really quickly. Can't handle 5 wars + decadence + bankruptcy, if someone did it I would be very interested about his strategy because I can not think of anything.