I am losing 30k a year....

[GFX707]

....to something called "corruption and other".

How do I get rid of this?

[Doug-Thompson]

With great difficulty.

What kind of vices does your governors have?

[katank]

If you have more than 150k total in treasury or so, it's best to avoid governors if possible. They pick up negative traits so quickly that it's not even funny. I've had cities triple their income when I move the governor out. I kid you not.

Instead, stack the little noobs together and go with a BG rush army. Most battles are over very fast when you have 20 BG units hitting the enemy. You'll have more than enough adoptions to compensate for your reckless usage/abuse of them.

[Oaty]

Corruption is unavoidable, but can be avoided to a degree. Any city that has over a 30 percent distance to capital penalty will have a good bit of corruption and when you get close to 80 percent it is quite nasty. At 80 percent I believ a little more than half the cities income goes to corruption and that's with quite a bit of law bonus buildings. At 20-30 percent you can build enough law buildings where the corruption is near negligable.

Also I dont think governors get coruption traits but they get -law bonuses wich increases corruption. Not to sure if it's possible in M2TW but in RTW you could get governors with a bonus of ~ 50 percent to law wich made distant cities pretty profitable.

So if your in the late game not a whole lot you can do.

[dopp]

You need law bonuses to cut down on corruption (happiness bonuses give extra growth). If you are very successful (i.e. more than 50k, 100k and 150k in bank) your governors will degenerate rapidly with traits like "Wildly Extravagant", which knocks 30% off tax collection. The governor traits that give bonuses to law are now ridiculously hard to get... I believe it's easier to be a Great Conqueror than to be a good bureaucrat (18 vs 24 trait points).

Playing without governors (especially for larger cities) and building stuff with law bonuses seems to be the way to go.