Keepin pos. cash flow in individual towns

**MiniKiller** · 09-10-2005, 02:53

How can I do this? I seem to always be in the whole ten fold with certain towns once the pop. grows. It doesn't make sense tho casue I'll have tax rate on very high yet every turn they are lossing more and more money. then their loyalty goes down so I'm forced to turn tax down to the minimum and they loose even more money.

Any tips?

*edit for spelling*

**Productivity** · 09-10-2005, 03:22

As population increases, the share of the army they support increases. This share and the costs of it grows at a greater rate than revenue growth from population. In short, you're allways going to find it really difficult to get a positive cashflow from a large town.

Just exterminate them.

**NodachiSam** · 09-10-2005, 03:54

I don't have RTW yet but couldn't you make a bunch of large units and send them to battle? Perhaps take some peasants to grow a population suffering somewhere else or transplant a population in a rebellious place?

**CBR** · 09-10-2005, 05:30

You dont really have to worry about the individual cities. Large cities just have a bigger share of the unit upkeep so thats why they are in the negative and it has no effect.

CBR

**Barbarossa82** · 09-10-2005, 12:11

I don't normally exterminate (unless the loyalty is awful) as more big towns just means that military expenditure is spread out thinner. Just because your newly-conquered city is running a 2000-denarii defecit doesn't mean your financial situation hasn't improved. Some of your other big cities will now be paying less in military upkeep, and the balance should be more favourable the more big cities you have.