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Thanks for your replies on my previous post. I am still not sure about this: according to the manual there is no such thing as yearly expenses, so, if we are to believe the manual, that can not be the modifier in question. And the Swedish 'mantalspenning' is only one of three things that make up your annual income. My question was 'what exactly is your annual income', i.e. the amount you receive on Jan 1st.

Portugal seems to be a hard country to play in the Grand Campaign. Maybe I will reconsider.

On a different note: does any of you have any experience of multiplayer games yet? Are they fast enough, do they crash often, etc.
Given the problems with the AI, my friends and I have decided that the only real challenge will be a multiplayer Grand Campaign, but only if it works alright.

P.S. No, I am not the Delirium of the Offspring site, although I confess to owning two of their albums.

 

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Yearly Income

1) Census tax (based on the tax values of your provinces)
2) Tolls (based on the size and number of cities and colonies you have modified by your Trade tech level)
3) Trade tariffs ( 5 ducats for every merchant that is in any CoTs controled by you no matter who owns the merchants)

Monthly Incomes and Costs are other things. Well they are written about in the manual. Reason for this 'strange' structure is to represent the uneven flow of incomes a country had during the timeperiod. A country had always costs running, but the flow of incomes was not as dynamic. One big money boost and a small trickling of ducats over the year.

To seriously raise you annual income you have to get more provinces either by colonialisation or conquest. Secondly the more CoTs you own (by conquest) the higher your annual income will be. And last raising your trade tech level AND infrastructural tech level will increase your annual incomes.

NOTE: The infrastructual tech level is also sometimes called 'economic efficiency' that is of course the lower level the more embeezlement and the higher level the more money get into your pockets. A large country that has upgraded all its buildings AND increased its infrastructural tech level from SAY 1 to 4 migt very well doubble its annual income.

Hope it helped some!

/Greven