As I said, be patient, the effect of inflation gets less over time.
I beg to differ. Here´s what happened:
1308 inflation hits
1362 science rate at 10 %
1380 science rate at 10 % (so from 1362 to 1380 again 0 science - note that
Wealth can´t be built, because it hasn´t been discovered yet)°°
1432 science rate at 20 % (so
first real improvement takes over 70 years)
1450 science rate at 10 %
and plague hits
1472
- Mamluks declared
wealthiest state in the world (at 613 gold reserve)
- science rate at 20 %
1488 science rate at 20 % (so from 1472 to 1488 again 10 % science)
1507 Medina taken
1513 Mecca taken (Mamluks have conquered Hedjaz, part of the 1° UHV)
1520 (or thereabouts)
Portuguese appear and 1° rebel army appears near Aswan (these will continue to appear from there on, although they make no attempt to take any cities - they just go stand on some resource and do nothing)
1542
3 cities running on Wealth (advance finally discovered)
1555
- Antioch DOWs on Mamluks
(I was planning on DOW them, but OK)
-
4 cities running on Wealth
1565 science rate at 20 % (so from 1488 to 1565 again 10 % science)
1568 science rate at 30 %
1575 Damascus taken
1597 Damascus almost lost but
Antioch collapses (they had taken Baghdad, way out of their league)
1600
- science rate at 20 %
-
6 cities running on Wealth
But wait, it gets better:
1616 Safavids take 1° place, Portuguese down from 2° to 7° place
1622 Portuguese collapsing
1624 Portuguese lose Goa (their capital)
1627
- Antioch taken (Mamluks complete UHV)
- science rate at 30 %
- Mughals come in 2° place
1640
-
9 cities running on Wealth
- still
38 turns to go to
Navigation (which only gives +1 sea movement), so I´m stuck with Caravels trying to sink Carracks...
°° By the way, Ibn Battuta´s Embassy only revealed the map, no contact was made with all civilizations (which might have boosted the Mamluks economy a bit)
That doesn't sound like working as intended. But the Mansa Musa gold did collapse the Egyptian economy. 100% inflation is just the game terms way of making that happen.
Right. So you´re stuck with like ZERO SCIENCE FOR OVER
125 YEARS.