Patch 3!

[Discoman]

I may be wrong, I don't remember how it was pre-patch (never bothered to examine it closely), but perhaps you're only supposed to get your cut thru taxes. Increasing region wealth would increase the amount of gold that a 22% tax (or whatever) would grab for you.

I'm not good at math, so try this: for each region, calculate how much of the region wealth the tax is (like Vilnius, find out what 20.8% of 6920 is) and see if all that equals the tax revenue listed in the national summary.

I think you're right and I think it's silly that it advertises the income in such a way that you really don't know how much you're getting by just looking at what's on the map. I'm not sure how it worked in the patch prior, but considering I could pay for 3 armies with just Paris I presume you got all of the region wealth + taxes.

[anweRU]

Prior to the patch, you only got the taxes, not the region wealth. The patch seems to have made changes tax income, but it still is tax income.

[Slaists]

Prior to the patch, you only got the taxes, not the region wealth. The patch seems to have made changes tax income, but it still is tax income.

The region wealth is the base for taxes. So, if the region wealth is 1000 and your effective tax rate is 35% you get 350 from that region in taxes. It's the same before and after the patch.

Post patch: if the wealth of the region is increasing (buildings, roads, trade, humanitarian techs, etc.) you will see your tax intake go up as long as you're not expanding too fast effectively lowering the tax rate.

[Veresov]

Finally able to play, however I am still getting an occasional CTD. The game is actually fairly challenging with the economic model and I am pleased.

Whats up with the complaining and moaning about the game now being too hard? This balance is rather nice and I like the fact that it forces you to make serious decisions in the game.

[Karash]

I like the new econ changes so far.

However, I didnt like how the British AI decided to take 8 units for a boat ride to the horn of Africa for some tradelane action. Pretty dumb.

[joe4iz]

Finally able to play, however I am still getting an occasional CTD. The game is actually fairly challenging with the economic model and I am pleased.

Whats up with the complaining and moaning about the game now being too hard? This balance is rather nice and I like the fact that it forces you to make serious decisions in the game.

Some of the complaining and moaning has to do with changing the rules half way thru a campaign. I found it very annoying. Basically, it plays like a different game.
It is frustrating to have 20 hours in a long campaign and have to rework your entire campaign. Things such as old enemies who were pacified, have no direct conflict with you and are valuable trading partners suddenly are throw out the window.

Improvements made to all of your capitols and regions don't mean anything etc etc..

I am playing a new game but between the proir CTD problems and then to have the extra aggravations thrown in is plain stupid.

I do not recall reading lots of posts about how easy the game was or was not. I read lots of posts about CTDs. While the patch has addressed those, and I AM grateful, I was not having any of those until they patched the game the first time.

Now I fight more smaller battles which I would charactirize as skimishes instead of any kind of big battle.

The AI still acts stupidly. For instance, as GB , I was at peace with France who had his hands full with Prussia, (UP is out of the picture), Savoy, Sweden, Austria, Hannover etc etc.. So after I load the patch, what is the intelligent thing to do? They declare war on the best trading partner they have, me. It took me 20 years worth of gifts etc just to get them to be on indifferent terms with me. So as I was broke, I took the half stack of units I used to garrison my capitol , unloaded them and ran in and captured an unoccuppied Paris. End of France.

I was never rich enough to buy any provinces so it's not like I had money hand over fist or anything.

[Quickening]

Sorry this thread is rather confusing. Has the patch broken the game or improved it?

[Quickening]

Hmm when the release of this patch was announced I turned Steam on to let it update which it did. Now Ive turned Steam on again and it's downloading something else. Anyone know what?

[Skott]

Sorry this thread is rather confusing. Has the patch broken the game or improved it?

As far as the bugs and CTD goes I think its an improvement but some people dont like how they changed the costs of buildings, units and the amount of money now made with trade and taxes. I guess its all in how you look at it.