Enraged with debt-ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[KRALLODHRIB]

I have just about had it with managing the ridiculously insane fluctuations inherent to the economy of RTW.

ARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Lonewarrior]

calm down, try using auto manage if you're not good to do it yourself.

[Lonewarrior]

OK go here

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=40072

[Medieval Assassin]

In shogun and medieval, when I first started playing the game, ( a week or so) I always went into the read, I didn't do this in RTW, I think the economy is easier to maintain.

[Slon]

RTW economy management is fairly easy, I think. You no longer have to place ships and maintain control of every sea "sector". Just make sure you aren't blockaded. Try to take cities with access to the sea and then make trade agreements with the factions across the body of water. Keep taxes as high as possible without going under 75%. The only exception to this is if you are trying to grow a city's population and don't really care about the small income that the city can make. Then, make it lower. This is especially true for the northern towns near Germania and Scythia, as they will often go into negative population growth if you set taxes too high, even though farms are upgraded and the town is small (low squalor).

[Lord Hornburg]

If your playing as Julli then you wont get much sea and the gauls are very rebelious

[sapi]

In Rome, trade is king. Get your trade up, especially sea trade, and capture rhodes asap, as well as the greek and macedonian peninsulas. That'll fix things.

I once had 99k in the bank, but my army got so big it ate it up in 5!!!! turns, until i was negative and sending suicide assaults to get rid of men ;)

Reminds me of a time in mtw when i got a rebellion in my favor and had to disband 21 units of peasents...

[Slon]

On another note, if you are having trouble playing due to money, I recommend playing as the Brutii. While it will be difficult, if at all possible, to obtain Syracuse and Laebaem (and perhaps Carthage?) in the first few turns before the Scipii do, their temple to mercury is great when it comes to racking in cash. Plus, you get all the good settlements early on in the game. My income with them is around 30,000 per turn. I had so much cash that I ended up buying settlements from the Scipii for 100,000-200,000 each. The only problem with this is that the senators get pissed off when you refuse to give back the land (because you obviously took it by force when you paid them). Still, this doesn't really matter since the Senate ends up hating you eventually, anyway. You might as well screw with them in the beginning, as well.

[Mountaindew]

whenever i played, sometimes my net income is in the red...when playing as the egyptains i had a net of -80000 one time, but managed to get it all back the next few turns...hehehe. so i guess the fluctuations are based upon the seasons(?) or from diplomacy and rebels and what not...

maybe get rid of some buildings that u dont need...get quick cash there...

KRALLODHRIB, maybe u could tell us of one experience when the finances didnt go your way... so that we can address it.

[IrishMike]

I don't like the trade system as much, because being the contol freak I am, you just don't get to control trade like in MTW. I don't trust a A.I. to make trade routs for me. Just my thoughts though.