Building Moneylenders

[unmerged(1047)]

Just a weird bit here...

After getting the technology to build the moneylenders in any particular province, it appears (as do other unbuilt buildings) in red in the construction screen, when I don't have money to build it.

The weird part is that sometimes - not always, and not in any predictable pattern, sometimes even varying from one province to another - it does not go green when I *do* have the money for it. I've only noticed this with moneylender buildings...

Is there some restriction on building them that isn't listed in the tooltip?

 

[richvh]

It has a cost in piety as well. When it is red when you have sufficient gold, is your piety very low or negative?

 

[Gothmog]

Building them might actually be sort of a good idea, at least when you're playing Byzantium...because sooner or later, they get "built" anyway for free, but with a higher piety cost..

 

[The Regent]

Building them might actually be sort of a good idea, at least when you're playing Byzantium...because sooner or later, they get "built" anyway for free, but with a higher piety cost..

Actually, the piety cost is higher if you build them manually. Event cost is 25 and manual cost is 50.

 

[Cat Lord]

So were you having enough piety or not ?

Cat

 

[unmerged(1047)]

It's usually when I have low piety, but I have had cases where the game was paused and the ability to build or not varied from one province to another...

 

[Gothmog]

Actually, the piety cost is higher if you build them manually. Event cost is 25 and manual cost is 50.

You're absolutely right...can't quite figure out why I thought the opposite was true.

 

[ConcordantNexus]

That's good to know (and here I was thinking that I couldn't build moneylenders because I'd already built churches and/or monasteries in the province).