Economic Faq bundle uploaded

[Tomcat]

Thanks for the explanation RedKnight. I understand much better now having only played MTW for less than a month and hence my questions re peasants.

Of course comparing farm income with trade is a bit like comparing fixed income with variable income - since trade can go up or down extremely rapidly, as I have now found out, whereas farm (and mine) income is stable. Thus although your spreadsheet may appear to show it better to upgrade a farm, the reality may be it is better to upgrade trade first if this trade is going to increase rapidly with an increasing fleet of ships. Or the "enemy" may have different ideas and scotch your well laid trading plans as the Italians did to me for a while!

That is why I thought it may be a good idea to incorporate mines into the equation as well. I have seen the payback periods tabulated in Frogbeastegg's MTW Primer. So thought it would be even better to compare them with farms on a dynamic spreadsheet to help get the best use out of limited finances early on.

Btw, I understand about Rome, though I shall be giving that a miss for a bit. Too much going on with MTW for me currently .

Tomcat

[RedKnight]

You're absolutely right - there may be additional things affecting income, such as a rapid increase or decrease in the number of trading partners. Trade (for seaports, not for inland provinces) is definitely more labile. Farms can change a little but too, though, depending on acumen, stewards, and of course tax level.

The "province income analyzer" can be used to model what a province's income will be, if the number of ports it trades to, changes. It's a rough tool, though - it would've taken making a regular application to model MTW economics (including ports) quite accurately.

Enjoy!

[Ludens]

Great work, RedKnight. Now to find a way to get the Excel-sheets running...

[RedKnight]

Thanks, Ludens! I thought the border info is nice too - hadn't seen that anywhere else.

If you don't have Excel, there's a link to a free reader in the README. On the other hand, let me know if there's a spreadsheet you'd like to use, but don't know how, or it seems broken...

I'm working on RTW now. VVV!

[Ludens]

If you don't have Excel, there's a link to a free reader in the README. On the other hand, let me know if there's a spreadsheet you'd like to use, but don't know how, or it seems broken...

Thanks, I hadn't seen that. The problem is that office 2000 seems broken: when I try to start Excel, the computer says it needs to install it. But now it gets really strange: I managed to open Excel without installing it! Anybody knows what is going on? As far as I know, office has been installed on this computer and I have not deleted it.

I would like to reinstall Excel, but the only office-CD in this house is an illegal copy and I am against using illegal copies.

Oh well, back to gazing longingly to the screenshots of RTW and hoping that I can soon buy myself a new PC.

[Havoc]

go to openoffice.org, download openoffice (about 80MB), install it and you wont have problems...
it s absolutely free, smaller and at most points better then ms office...
(for example you can convert to .pdf with 3 clicks)

[Ludens]

Thanks, Havoc. I will give it a try.