population

[Vasiliyi]

I've noticed that cities with higher population make less money actually. Which doesn't make sense cuz wouldn't they be paying more taxes.... can anyone enlighten me on this?

[Korlon]

They don't. Check the settlement details. You'll see that the more populated cities get more of the brunt of army upkeep. What you see on the campaign map doesn't actually show the real income of a city.

[Vasiliyi]

Huh, ok makes sence

[Cambyses]

Yeah, that's always been an annoying feature of RTW. Im guessing the calculation doesnt take tax, farming, trade and mining income into account equally when comparing it to the cost of your family members and army upkeep. So smaller towns that might have quite well established mining or trading operations look to be a lot more profitable than larger cities that have the same money making options PLUS a large tax base.

All in all IMO it makes the income (or rather profit) summaries shown on the campaign map rather useless, to get any meaningful information you need to go individually into the province details and see the income breakdown.

It would be better, surely to charge the province on its profits only for the troops actually in it for garrison duty and then have a seperate section for campaining armies, which comes out of the general pot and is not shown disproportionately against the larger cities.

This is surely after all how any sensible ancient accountant would have viewed the benefit or not of owning a settlement.

Anyway, dont know why Im bothered so much as economies are relatively easy to manage in the game...

[blacksnail]

Yeah, you can effectively ignore that number completely.