I was playing an East India campaign this evening, and everything was going well until I saw that I was losing market access in all my states, which was tanking my economy. At first I thought it's some new market change I just didn't understand, but after some Googling I tagged over to GB and lo and behold:
Britain had a whopping 49% convoy deficit which was causing me a 33% access penalty, and there's nothing I can do about that.
The issue was supposed to be fixed with 1.9.3, so I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing this regularly as well, or if I just got unlucky and the AI has derped out this game? I'm also wondering if someone has experienced it being fixed after 1.9.3, but then broken again after 1.9.6?
Edit: when I tagged over to Britain, the predicted port earnings were a meagre around a meagre 0 despite being having such a large deficit:
Why is this? Are convoys not contributing to port profits and only merchant marine? Because the marine price is quite low for them:
So perhaps if convoys made a port more profit, or more convoys were produced per port level, the issues would be decreased in the British market. You could then increase the supply demand of armies to offset this a bit, without affecting market access.
Also a bit unrelated, but despite earning 35K a week with most armies raised, the AI still had an empty construction queue.


Britain had a whopping 49% convoy deficit which was causing me a 33% access penalty, and there's nothing I can do about that.
The issue was supposed to be fixed with 1.9.3, so I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing this regularly as well, or if I just got unlucky and the AI has derped out this game? I'm also wondering if someone has experienced it being fixed after 1.9.3, but then broken again after 1.9.6?
Edit: when I tagged over to Britain, the predicted port earnings were a meagre around a meagre 0 despite being having such a large deficit:

Why is this? Are convoys not contributing to port profits and only merchant marine? Because the marine price is quite low for them:

So perhaps if convoys made a port more profit, or more convoys were produced per port level, the issues would be decreased in the British market. You could then increase the supply demand of armies to offset this a bit, without affecting market access.
Also a bit unrelated, but despite earning 35K a week with most armies raised, the AI still had an empty construction queue.
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