What causes income to plummet?

**Tony Furze** · 06-16-2006, 09:43

I ve conquered a pretty large slice of the campaign map as the Spanish (only on easy).

Basically I ve avoided fiddling around with the Pope by Crusading.Now there s no one left to Crusade against. The Italians are being a pain spoiling for a fight. I sank a few of their ships to free up trade and got excommunicated for "unChristian behaviour".

Before that my income dropped-a big drop each turn. It was in the 100 000s and now is -(minus)1000 and something.

How could I have stopped it? Why is it happening?

**Matty** · 06-16-2006, 10:15

sounds like your trade has collapsed - on the campaign map press the 'v' key and the areas of sea will show up green (you have access), yellow (you have no boats) or red (you are blocked by an enemy fleet). You must have green between trading nations to enable trade.

**naut** · 06-16-2006, 10:20

Yes, most likely a trade collapse. Or you have conquered provinces that your were trading with.

**Vlad The Impala** · 06-16-2006, 10:23

Or you've built up a HUGE army in the meantime. I also don't think that your income can be in the 100,000s, or am I wrong there? o_O

**naut** · 06-16-2006, 10:33

Humm, yes a bit large. I mean you can get 15,000 from Sicily alone but I've never heard/seen 100,000 before!

**Ludens** · 06-16-2006, 12:22

If you are using auto-tax it could also have been caused by a drop in loyalty. This in turn can be caused by a drop excomunitcation, a drop in influence, ship lines being cut or by hitting the 60%-province mark.