Manufactory inflation, how does work?

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I have just finished my first GC as Spain, it was really a tutorial for me since I couldn't get a DOW against the Mamelukes to practice war. I learned a tremendous amount about the game but one of the things that I don't understand is the inflation cost of manufactories. I had lots of gold mines and inflation got to about 22% before I could promote governors and keep it at 0%. The inflation cost of military units ranged from 33% for warships from 1492 to 1792, to 50% for infantry for the same period. However for manufactories, the inflation cost ranged from 655% for goods manufactories to 457% for fine arts academies for the period 1492 to 1792. It seemed that the cost went up every time I annexed another country. The cost doubled when I annexed Venice and stayed near that level for the rest of the game. How does the inflation model work for manufactories?

 

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The cost for another manufactory is always higher than the cost of the last one. I believe this is to reflect the fact that manufactories are meant to be "new additions" to the economy, reflecting major improvements - and new major improvements, being built on the ones you already have, are going to be harder and more expensive to make than the older ones were. Annexing a nation which has some manufactories of its own will make the cost of building them go up even faster. National inflation is applied to the cost after all this is taken into account, which can them pretty damn pricey in the end game - as you discovered.

 

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Originally posted by Heyesey
The cost for another manufactory is always higher than the cost of the last one. I believe this is to reflect the fact that manufactories are meant to be "new additions" to the economy, reflecting major improvements - and new major improvements, being built on the ones you already have, are going to be harder and more expensive to make than the older ones were. Annexing a nation which has some manufactories of its own will make the cost of building them go up even faster. National inflation is applied to the cost after all this is taken into account, which can them pretty damn pricey in the end game - as you discovered.

Thanks, Heyesey.

Thats what I was afraid of. I was paying over 4000 Ducats for them in the last 100 years.