England vs. Russia Monthly Income troubles

[unmerged(2289)]

Sorry about the mouthful on the subject.

Most of my experience in EU involves Russia in the IGC. I took certain things for granted. Now as England I'm having a heckuva time with my monthly income/inflation bar setting. As Russia I could keep my monthly revenues at -1 to 1 ducats with about 0.17% increase in inflation a year. As England it's at 0.49% to lose 3 to 5 ducats a month! What gives? I guess I don't understand the mechanics of the economy well, but I didn't think I was that bad. I have tax collectors in each province, but no judges and I haven't hit governor level yet. I have monopolies in 3 or 4 mid-level CoTs [150-350 ducat] and several merchants in 5 others. Is this some sort of English inefficiency that is hard coded into the game or is it my inefficiency somehow?

 

[hjarg]

Army and navy maintenance could be the problem: especially the navy- it's expencive.

Income doesn't matter, it's how much you spend that matters. Doesn't matter if you make 5 of 500 ducats/month, army/navy demand their maintenance anyway.

And maybe you have taken a loan: intrests are calculated as monthly income as well.

Just cut the navy/army maintenance to 50%, but don't forget to increace it when you go to war.

 

[unmerged(2289)]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply.

As Russia I never had a huge navy so I guess I should check that out. I really wish there was a way to remind yourself to set the maintenance back to 100%. I always forget so now I leave it at 100% and eat the losses. I have no current loans so it must be my military spending that's killing me.

Does the fact that infantry cost 3 to 4 times more for England than Russia affect this as well?

 

[hjarg]

Hmmm... can't tell for sure. But most of expences is navy anyway...

About reminders:
i used very simple method- just took a black marker and wrote on the monitor "Maintenance to 100% when war". And it works

 

[unmerged(548)]

Originally posted by hjarg
Hmmm... can't tell for sure. But most of expences is navy anyway...

About reminders:
i used very simple method- just took a black marker and wrote on the monitor "Maintenance to 100% when war". And it works

I would recomend using Post-it's instead, or you might find yourself subconsiously trying to find that maintainance slider during Q3 MP Deathmatches ...

 

[unmerged(2735)]

Yes, everything about the English military is very
expensive. Just deal with it till you can promote
governor's. Try to out colonize everyone in hopes
of new CoTs popping up in your provinces. With
the extra income you'll be able to research infrastucture
tech all the faster. Once you can start promoting
govs everything will be all better.

 

[unmerged(2289)]

Does lowering the maintenance of the navy increase the rate of attrition for my explorers?

 

[hjarg]

Nope, they are just a bunch of underpaid, but still effective explorers.