Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
The tech race is now of paramount importance. All those unhappy enlightenment techs do wonder for ramping up province wealth. Getting an early university really pays off.

That is a problem too, if you haven’t noticed.

Perhaps it is not effecting other factions, but as GB I can not get more than 6 Gentlemen.

Usually I don’t go crazy building schools but in this campaign I went a little overboard. I have 9 schools and 7 Observatories.

That is more than enough to spawn the 12 maximum Gentlemen, wouldn’t you think?

Research goes as a snails pace when you only have a school without Gentlemen you know. Something like 26 turns to research farming techs and so on.

But then again, with the economy the way it is you can’t afford to build more than one improvement to go on to the next tech level.

If you couple that with the fact that the game is going to take some action to keep your economy in the tank it can be VERY FRUSTRATING.

I tried GB on short campaign to get a feel for 1.5.

I am not saying that I won’t win. I have one region to acquire, but that is in India and is an inland region so there is a big war to fight to get there and I have neither the troops nor the ships for that endeavor at this time. Nor do I have the means to do it quickly.

If I strip my global garrisons and fleets, just what do you think is going to happen?