Mass extermination makes for a bit of a mess, no? Also: Culture Penalty?

[Maedhros]

I'm playing two campaigns at once.

My Julii always enslaves which apparently creates a trade good. They are doing well, and have balanced city populations. No cities as small as the Scipios who decimate populations across Europe.

On the other hand Scipii has more troops in the field and MUCH smaller garrison costs. Lots of small cities in gaul and a couple in Spain. But I'm very popular with the people.

I'm also spending a lot less time micromanaging in Scipii. While I love to micromanage, it is getting tedious with the Julii, who also have only 10 or 20K denarii in the bank. Scipii has more than 300K.

This might be the source of a nasty new trend. nearly all of my Scipii faction members have developed expensive tastes, extravagance to one degree or another, and widespread financial irregularities.

I'm still in the black, but I'm getting seriously annoyed.

[Sinner]

Scipii has more than 300K.

This might be the source of a nasty new trend. nearly all of my Scipii faction members have developed expensive tastes, extravagance to one degree or another, and widespread financial irregularities.

I'm still in the black, but I'm getting seriously annoyed.

There are 4 'corruption' triggers based upon the amount of money you have:

- If a family member ends the turn in a settlement and your treasury is 50000 or greater, they have a small (3%) chance each of acquiring up to 5 vices: moral flexibility (easier to bribe & a penalty to law), aesthetic (boost to influence, but reduced command), expensive tastes (reduced management), epicurean (boost to trading, but easier to bribe) and bad administrator (reduced management).

- If a family member ends the turn in a settlement and your treasury is 100000 or greater, you also trigger a second check, with a 3% chance again for each of 5 vices, the same as for the 50000 trigger, but with bad administrator replaced by embezzler (reduced management).

- If a family member ends the turn in a settlement and your treasury is 150000 or greater, you also trigger a third check! Again you have a 3% chance for each of 5 vices, the same as for the 100000 trigger.

- If you're a Roman and a family member ends the turn in a settlement and your treasury is 50000 or greater, they trigger yet another check, with a 3% chance to become a gourmand (reducing trade).

So if life really hates you, your family member could pick up all 16 vice points! In one turn an otherwise perfectly good family member could suddenly acquire Dubious, Lover of Beauty, Wildy Extravagant, Refined Tastes, Financially Irregular and Gourmand - giving -6 to Bribe Resistance (not sure in-game effect), -10% Law, +1 Influence, -1 Command and -4 Management. Ouch! He'd also be past the point of no return for some traits, being unable to reduce them through 'good' triggers and on the edge of a couple of vices getting worse. Of course, the chance for all that happening in one turn is so remote that it's effectively impossible... except that I know my PC is out to get me!