Quote Originally Posted by Poor Bloody Infantry View Post
Generally excellent post, but I should pick up on this point; I'm pretty sure I checked this once by monitoring a merchant's income before and after building mines, and found there to be no difference. This was in the Britannia campaign, but I doubt it's a game mechanic that varies between Kingdoms and vanilla.

Of course, mines are almost always worth building anyway in spite of the corruption, so it doesn't make too much of a difference strategy wise.

Oh well, it always pays to check carefully. I would have sworn differently but I just checked in vanilla and you are correct. I will try again later with a bit more time as I was sure I have seen my original assertion be true in Crusades and the vastly profitable mines in the areas like Van, Yerevan, Tblisi, and the others.

So much for my memory, humbled here.