1.5 and still a BIG GRIPE!

[Fisherking]

Well, could it be that adding France gave you a global tax hit (global admin costs) so big that it would explain the loss you're describing?

That having been said, I usually struggle economically at the start of the game, but by mid-game (around 1740 or so), I have in excess of 20,000 K profit per turn playing almost any faction in 1.5. And that's without pursuing trade nodes aggressively.

No the admin costs went up less than 1% world wide and it was only the 15th region. ( like 0.1 here or 0.2 there)

There are other things going on.

Several bugs from 1.2 are back in the system.

Ships can once again pirate a block trade route.

If you pirate an active trade route and move the ships in the same turn to a different spot (continuing to pirate the same route) you lose money.

Oh, and another big gripe is that agents block movement now. A priest or a rake can stop an army, block bridges and so on.The more I play in this patch the bugger and screwier it seems.