Well, I only got this game 1 day ago and im woundering what it does. Thanks in advance.
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Increases the cost of everything over time. A Bailiff that cost 50 ducats at the beginning will cost 55 ducats with an inflation rate of 10 percent.
In my last game I maximized my technology early on, and discovered that after there is no more technology all your budget goes to the treasury - and you therefore suffer massive inflation. On a whim I saved the game, then let it run all night while I went to sleep. When I woke up, aside from finding that rebels owned half my provinces and several independant nations had reformed out of my conquests, I saw my inflation was at a whopping 145%. However, things were not all *that* much more expensive, being about 2.5 times normal cost - meanwhile I had over a million gold in the bank, more than I could possibly ever spend!
The lesson with inflation isn't that you should completely avoid it - rather, the lesson is make sure that you keep your finances ahead of inflation. Personally, I try to minimize inflation, living off my annual income if possible, and keep the treasury bar as far to the left as I can afford. If I'm in wartime, I'll let it hover just to the right of zero, as needed. Be careful when investing in stability - once you reach +3, all of your stability bar gets added to the treasury bar, so you may rack up some big inflation before you notice it.
The lesson with inflation isn't that you should completely avoid it - rather, the lesson is make sure that you keep your finances ahead of inflation. Personally, I try to minimize inflation, living off my annual income if possible, and keep the treasury bar as far to the left as I can afford. If I'm in wartime, I'll let it hover just to the right of zero, as needed. Be careful when investing in stability - once you reach +3, all of your stability bar gets added to the treasury bar, so you may rack up some big inflation before you notice it.
Savvy,
I was just going to make the very same point about Stability when I read your last line. In my current GC game as Russia, I was financing stability, and it finally hit +3. I checked my budget window a few months later, and was shocked to see my Treasury bar almost completely to the right, as I always leave it as close to zero as possible. My inflation had jumped from just 1 or 2% to over 11% very quickly.
This really made me angry, but not nearly as angry as I was when I did it a second time!
I was just going to make the very same point about Stability when I read your last line. In my current GC game as Russia, I was financing stability, and it finally hit +3. I checked my budget window a few months later, and was shocked to see my Treasury bar almost completely to the right, as I always leave it as close to zero as possible. My inflation had jumped from just 1 or 2% to over 11% very quickly.
This really made me angry, but not nearly as angry as I was when I did it a second time!
Inflation in EU isen't as bad as you may thing. This is beuase in real life an inflation rate of 2.5 % means that everything will get 2.5% more expencive every year. In EU inflation is only a 1 time thing. It is not anual. That is to say I I have a 10% infaltion rate my prices on everything should increase 10% every year. But in EU the inflation is only compounded once.
In my current GC as England I feel that inflation is crippling me. I had several 'infrastructure investments halved' events, so I will not be able to build governors (that fight inflation) before 1692 or so. My current inflation level is 75%, and though I receive heaps of cash annually just the cost of sending merchants is a serious handicap. Whine, whine...
Regards,
EoE
Regards,
EoE
If you hold the button over the treasury slide in the budget, a textbox will show you the annual inflation, it's usually, for me, about 0,20 %, and that makes the total inflation, which starts with 0%, rise with 0,20% per year, after five years, the inflation has risen till 1%.
Originally posted by Kelly Hrdina
I checked my budget window a few months later, and was shocked to see my Treasury bar almost completely to the right, as I always leave it as close to zero as possible. My inflation had jumped from just 1 or 2% to over 11% very quickly.
Huh? AFAIK, if you have the slider all the way to the right, inflation will increase by 1% per year. If I'm not wrong on this, how could your inflation rise by 9-10% in a couple of months?
1% a year is tops inderdeed. I often forget about stability investments when it hits +3 for a few years till I suddenly notice I have loads of cash.
I guess it was more than just a couple of months before I noticed, then!
I may have started at little more than the 2% I wrote, but not by too much.The second time it happened, it only went up another 1 or 2%, so I caught it more quickly.
Inflation is sexy.
... try telling that to the man with a wheelbarrow full of Reichsmarks
... try telling that to the man with a wheelbarrow full of Reichsmarks