Inflation Questions

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1) On the treasury bar I get messages like, 'inflation will increase 10% next year). I'm assuming that this means that the price of everything will increase 10%?

2) I've been playing Turkey in the IGC game and it seems that if I keep my inflation at 0% (with minimum upkeep on my armies and navies) my monthly budget drops to (for example) -10ducats a month until I run out of my yearly income then it drops to 0/month (inflation still at 0%). Again I assume that the investment bars are changed to reflect my poor-boy status.
Is there anyway to adjust the money I am losing per month before all my yearly income runs out by using the investment bars? (and still keeping inflation at 0%)
I find as soon as Jan 1st comes around I spend like a 3 day millionaire until I'm broke because otherwise I lose my yearly income to that blasted treasury slider. This also makes savings pretty tough without driving up inflation.

3) A previous answer said that the inflation-busting abilities of Mayors are a one shot deal...... If, for example, I'm playing France with 20 provinces and 10% inflation. Should I just appoint 10 mayors to get the inflation to 0%, and then appoint them one by one as my inflation increases? Or could I appoint all 20 and have them in an 'inflation pot' just waiting for inflation to increase in which case they'll automatically do their job?

4) If I rack my monthly income slider up to, for example, $50 a month with 80% inflation for 9 months and then bring it down to 0% inflation for the remaining 3 months, will I still have a huge inflation increase the next year?

Sorry for the long-winded questions but I'll still trying to get a handle on this inflation thing My last opponent said he was getting $150 monthly income with 2% inflation and I'm wondering what I'm missing

 

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Originally posted by Mrlifford
1) On the treasury bar I get messages like, 'inflation will increase 10% next year). I'm assuming that this means that the price of everything will increase 10%?

I don't think you can ever actually increase inflation by as much as 10% a year (1% max per year), but yes that's what it means. Gold provinces do raise inflation more though.

2) I've been playing Turkey in the IGC game and it seems that if I keep my inflation at 0% (with minimum upkeep on my armies and navies) my monthly budget drops to (for example) -10ducats a month until I run out of my yearly income then it drops to 0/month (inflation still at 0%). Again I assume that the investment bars are changed to reflect my poor-boy status. Is there anyway to adjust the money I am losing per month before all my yearly income runs out by using the investment bars? (and still keeping inflation at 0%)

If you store enough yearly income you won't run out otherwise you'll have to take some inflation. If your treasury is 0 and you are losing money each month then your troops morale starts going down - it's not a good thing to have 0 treasury and lose money each month.

I find as soon as Jan 1st comes around I spend like a 3 day millionaire until I'm broke because otherwise I lose my yearly income to that blasted treasury slider. This also makes savings pretty tough without driving up inflation.

You don't gain anything by spending like crazy like this, see above. You should set your inflation slider between .1% and .3% a year so you don't run out of money. Try to research level 5 infrastructure as early as possible so you can lower your inflation when you want. Even at .3% a year your inflation will only be 30% after 100 years.


3) A previous answer said that the inflation-busting abilities of Mayors are a one shot deal...... If, for example, I'm playing France with 20 provinces and 10% inflation. Should I just appoint 10 mayors to get the inflation to 0%, and then appoint them one by one as my inflation increases? Or could I appoint all 20 and have them in an 'inflation pot' just waiting for inflation to increase in which case they'll automatically do their job?

No there is no inflation pot.

4) If I rack my monthly income slider up to, for example, $50 a month with 80% inflation for 9 months and then bring it down to 0% inflation for the remaining 3 months, will I still have a huge inflation increase the next year?


The max is 1% per year but yes if you raise it then bring it down you will only get an inflation increase for the time you had it raised. The use of the word inflation in EU is NOT the same as its use in the real world. In EU, Inflation is really an Inflation Index - it is how much more things cost currently than back in 1492. For instance, the Inflation Index for the U.S. today based on say the year 1980 is somewhere around 100% (i.e things cost about 100% more now then they did back in 1980 - just roughly guessing here...) but Inflation (the term that is used on the News) is only about 2-3% each year. The Maximum that inflation can increase per year in EU is 1% (barring gold effects).


Sorry for the long-winded questions but I'll still trying to get a handle on this inflation thing My last opponent said he was getting $150 monthly income with 2% inflation and I'm wondering what I'm missing

 

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In other words, the percentage number next to word inflation is not last year's inflation but rather the total cumulative inflation since 1492.

If you set the slider all the way to the right for one entire year your inflation number will become 1%. If next year you slide it all the way to the left for the entire year this numner will remain at 1%. If you now set it in the middle for two more entire years your inflation after 4 years will be 2% (1% + 0% + .5% + .5%).

If you set it all the way to the right for 300 years, it will be 300% after 300 years. If you set it in the middle for 300 years it will be 150% after 300 years.

 

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AH-HA!

Now that makes sense.... Thanks a lot Robo.... It appears I've been shortchanging myself all these games

So with the mayors its best just to appoint them whenever the inflation goes up.

Thanks