How do salaries work

[dragonchr15]

I know each settlement pays money to the general and the troops, but does this apply when they leave the settlement? In M:TW, they kept track of troop upkeep as a whole so it didn't matter; here it looks like each town controls upkeep. Am I wrong? I am losing a lot of money in a province that has a governor and 2 Town Watches! Do I have to disband the units to reduce the amount of money paid out?

[Dorkus]

I know each settlement pays money to the general and the troops, but does this apply when they leave the settlement? In M:TW, they kept track of troop upkeep as a whole so it didn't matter; here it looks like each town controls upkeep. Am I wrong? I am losing a lot of money in a province that has a governor and 2 Town Watches! Do I have to disband the units to reduce the amount of money paid out?

I don't think the settlement-level salary info means anything. Basically, you have a big pot of expenses, and the game splits it to the provinces somehow (probably proportionatlely by base city income). It's the same as MTW -- CA just want to give you some info about net income when you're glancing at the cities.

[andrewt]

I get it better now. Each port upgrade allows you to export to 1 province. There doesn't appear to be a limit on importing, however.

Unlike MTW, importing is more substantial. Exporting is still better, however.

[Dorkus]

Unlike MTW, importing is more substantial. Exporting is still better, however.

why do you say that? isnt the ai constrained by the 1 route/port limit as well?

[andrewt]

If you've seen your port income in MTW, it sucks. At least now the ratio of import income versus export income is much smaller.

Also, you can trade between your own provinces right now. So if one of your provinces exports to another, you get export income from 1 province and import income from 1 province. If they both export to each other, you'll get export and import income at both provinces.

[lars573]

I've noticed that the capital city is a huge money pit. All my other cities can be making at least 500 denarii and the capitol is in the hole for 2 grand all the friggin time, and if i turn up the taxes the people goddamn riot.

[RedKnight]

Lars, that must be chance. My capitol is doing fine, but another city of mine is being negative. Or it was, for the first few hours. I think we need to give it more time to understand what's going on. It might be that you have a lot of troops there, so that city is spending a lot of upkeep relative to other cities - like others said here, it looks like the income goes into a big pot, then expenses are shown out of that. Stay tuned - happy to be proved wrong, as long as we all find out how it really works.
~:cheers:

[andrewt]

Income for the city is that city's income. Expenses are the total expenses for all the units in your empire proportioned based on city popultation. So if your capital has a high population, it gets a higher share of the expenses. I'm playing Julii and my capital gets a lot of trade income.