Cash and Corruption

[pezhetairoi]

How the heck did you manage to get Pella to give you 7000 mnai. o.O Uh, lower tax rates to the minimum across the empire if you are getting too much into your treasuries. Give your people a better life. And employ more of them in the army for the heck of it. Built a limitanei line across continents, borders, etc. Start overwhelming AI stacks with 3 of your own at once instead of one against one. Money is there to be spent, and there are ways to spend it. :D

@Landwalker

My copy of the Devil's Dictionary doesn't have 'ARMY' listed in it. What version is yours? Where did you get it from? o.O

[Landwalker]

How the heck did you manage to get Pella to give you 7000 mnai. o.O Uh, lower tax rates to the minimum across the empire if you are getting too much into your treasuries. Give your people a better life. And employ more of them in the army for the heck of it. Built a limitanei line across continents, borders, etc. Start overwhelming AI stacks with 3 of your own at once instead of one against one. Money is there to be spent, and there are ways to spend it. :D

@Landwalker

My copy of the Devil's Dictionary doesn't have 'ARMY' listed in it. What version is yours? Where did you get it from? o.O

Pella' income has gone down a bit because I've recruited most of another full stack, but here's the current breakdown:

Farms (Poor Harvest): 323
Taxes (Normal): 1040
Mines (Complex): 4,950
Trade: 1,416
Admin: 1,545
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Salaries: -364
Army Upkeep: -2,215
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Total: +6,695 mnai / turn


I actually have all of my cities on Normal or Low taxation in order to facilitate population growth. I haven't had high taxes on anything for something like thirty years.

I'm not building a vast Grand Army of the Monarchy because I'm a minimalist. Even though I have essentially unlimited resources, I still build the smallest amount of armies/soldiers I can that will get the job done. Although, just for kicks, I considered training up something like 25 full stacks, moving them around so that each of them is next to one of the cities I need for victory, and then hitting every city on the same turn. It won't happen, but it was an amusing thought.

I have The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary ("With 861 Newly Discovered Words and Definitions Added to the Previous Thousand-Word Collection") It's published in 1967, first edition. The extra words are apparently gleaned from weekly columns Bierce wrote for San Francisco periodicals. The work is edited by Ernest Jerome Hopkins, with a preface by John Myers Myers (yes, two Myers in his name). I found it in my campus library. Great stuff.

Cheers.

[amritochates]

A little bit of clarification:

a. Corruption, as given in the above displayed scroll is proportional to public order- i.e higher the public order due to buildings that confer this bonus lower your corruption.

b. Corruption, as a trait along with other related traits occuring in your generals/governors/family members is defined among other factors the state of your treasury, any amount higher than that specified will increase the chance f such traits occuring.

[Intranetusa]

Corruption is also determined by the distance a city is from the capital, not just governor traits and the amount of money you have in the treasury.

ie. If your capital is Rome and you have a city in India, your corruption will be 80%+ through the roof...