Patch 3!

[Slaists]

hmm. people who have the patch already are reporting 0% tax (regardless what rate they set the tax at). how could something like this have slipped by beta and in-house testers??

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it seems, more and more people are reporting the same thing. darned... i forgot to put steam in offline mode this morning.

[Beskar]

hmm. people who have the patch already are reporting 0% tax (regardless at what rate they set the tax). how could something like this have slipped by beta and in-house testers??
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it seems, more and more people are reporting the same thing. darned... i forgot to put steam in offline mode this morning.

Yes, I got that bug, I was about to report it now. I thought "I know, I will start a new game! I will play as Russia, so I can observe the Naval units in action".

So I put it as VH/VH like I do, then I noticed that I was basically bankrupt, so I thought "oh, must be more expensive, I will go Easy/Easy to cancel out the costs" and still no money.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Way to go, my game is actually now broken when it worked reasonably well before.

[Slaists]

Yes, I got that bug, I was about to report it now. I thought "I know, I will start a new game! I will play as Russia, so I can observe the Naval units in action".

So I put it as VH/VH like I do, then I noticed that I was basically bankrupt, so I thought "oh, must be more expensive, I will go Easy/Easy to cancel out the costs" and still no money.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Way to go, my game is actually now broken when it worked reasonably well before.

hey, since you have the patch already, would you mind starting up a small faction (prussia) game? lusted mentioned in another thread that owning many provinces in a single theater would set the tax income very low... going by that logic, prussia should be alright at the start.

anyway, having zero income just because a faction has many starting provinces (like russia) is plain stupid imho...

[Beskar]

hey, since you have the patch already, would you mind starting up a small faction (prussia) game? lusted mentioned in another thread that owning many provinces in a single theater would set the tax income very low... going by that logic, prussia should be alright at the start.

anyway, having zero income just because a faction has many starting provinces (like russia) is plain stupid imho...

No, it is the same. No tax income for Prussia either.

[mmk]

No, it is the same. No tax income for Prussia either.

Strange. I have the new patch installed (and the 4 turns per year mod).
Initial tax income for Prussia on M/M = 3814
Second turn (without building anything or adjusting anything) = 3842

[Jack Lusted]

Yes, I got that bug, I was about to report it now. I thought "I know, I will start a new game! I will play as Russia, so I can observe the Naval units in action".

So I put it as VH/VH like I do, then I noticed that I was basically bankrupt, so I thought "oh, must be more expensive, I will go Easy/Easy to cancel out the costs" and still no money.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Way to go, my game is actually now broken when it worked reasonably well before.

Quick question, have you modded your startpost.esf at all or installed any mods that might change it.

[Slaists]

Quick question, have you modded your startpost.esf at all or installed any mods that might change it.

Imperial Splendor does change startpost.est. Judging by download statistics, a boat-load of people have that mod installed.

[Beskar]

Quick question, have you modded your startpost.esf at all or installed any mods that might change it.

No, only mods I did have was unlocking the minor factions (it is pevergreen's mod on this site) but I restored it to the unmodded files before this patch was applied on sunday.

[Jack Lusted]

No, only mods I did have was unlocking the minor factions (it is pevergreen's mod on this site) but I restored it to the unmodded files before this patch was applied on sunday.

Interesting, it looked like it was mods that was causing this problem. Are you sure you went back to the normal file. Can you check to see if your startpos.esf has todays date on it to see if it was updated by the patch.

[Beskar]

29/04/2009 18:86 (it is 20:29 at the moment)

Well, all I can say is that I was sure. Is it possible to download the working startpos.esf alone some where then?

[Jack Lusted]

Best way to be sure is to delete the patch.pack and startpos.esf in your Empire folder, then go to Empire in steam right click then properties > local files > verify integrity of game cache.

[Pinxit]

Yes, I got that bug, I was about to report it now. I thought "I know, I will start a new game! I will play as Russia, so I can observe the Naval units in action".

So I put it as VH/VH like I do, then I noticed that I was basically bankrupt, so I thought "oh, must be more expensive, I will go Easy/Easy to cancel out the costs" and still no money.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Way to go, my game is actually now broken when it worked reasonably well before.

Dude. That is nothing to complain about. I on the other hand have something valid. I downloaded the patch, continued my swedish campaign (1781) and realised the economic system had changed so drastically due to the patch that I lost 35 000 per turn. I actually had + 25 000 per turn before the patch, and now I have - 10 000. My entire empire fell because of that. I had to get rid of four full stacks of my army so that I could afford to continue, and when I did that, everyone sort of declared war on me.

[Hooahguy]

downloading the patch now....