How so?
Don't bother explaining compound inflation, I know what that is, but explain how its use would improve the game.
Corporations
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How so?
Don't bother explaining compound inflation, I know what that is, but explain how its use would improve the game.
I am currently playing a game as the Dutch and I have founded Creative Constructions. The Portuguese have founded Mining, Inc. These are 2 competing corps. Joao has spread his corp to nearly every single one of his cities and I have yet to find it in a non-Portuguese city. I think it is funny that his tactic is the opposite of what the designers stated. I have bumped Mining Inc from a few of his cities, but he puts it back a little later. I think I am going to just load it up on my vassal, Catherine, and Hatty.
Best use of corporations I've seen actually came from playing the next war scenario (I now run the "fixed" version of the epic part of that mod.. includes removing corp maintanance from inflation and all the next war units/techs/buildings.. best epic/marathon mod I've played yet)
but I digress. key to success here is where you put the headquarters.
either put it in your capitol, or put it in a heavily cottaged pure commerce city.
if its the capitol, then with market,grocer,bank,wallstreet your +200% so with beurocracy its 250% of incoming gold.
in cottaged heavy city its 200%.
why is this relevent? mining inc is one of the strongest.. I don't let the ai have access to it because it is so good. yeah a city you put it into is going to cost you 30 or so gpt but that can be managed with a courthouse. however the headquarters is making back 15gpt because of the 5+200%
it is possible to make this break even, making it so that your cities are just benefitting from 15-20 hammers per turn.
as far as sushi, which imo is better than cereal mills, again you can make this a break even.. especially if both of those headquarters are in the wallstreet city.
if you want to inflict pain on the ai, sushi is just more food.. and while that will help an AI city, they will pay dearly for it. I'd rather give them more food than more hammers in any given situation.
so there you have it, I hope others can use this and see if they gain similar effects. for me setting up those 2 corps means a brand new city or one recently captured can be quickly pop exploded and have the nessessary hammers to quickly produce granary, forge, courthouse, factory, barracks, airport.
NaZ
but I digress. key to success here is where you put the headquarters.
either put it in your capitol, or put it in a heavily cottaged pure commerce city.
if its the capitol, then with market,grocer,bank,wallstreet your +200% so with beurocracy its 250% of incoming gold.
in cottaged heavy city its 200%.
why is this relevent? mining inc is one of the strongest.. I don't let the ai have access to it because it is so good. yeah a city you put it into is going to cost you 30 or so gpt but that can be managed with a courthouse. however the headquarters is making back 15gpt because of the 5+200%
it is possible to make this break even, making it so that your cities are just benefitting from 15-20 hammers per turn.
as far as sushi, which imo is better than cereal mills, again you can make this a break even.. especially if both of those headquarters are in the wallstreet city.
if you want to inflict pain on the ai, sushi is just more food.. and while that will help an AI city, they will pay dearly for it. I'd rather give them more food than more hammers in any given situation.
so there you have it, I hope others can use this and see if they gain similar effects. for me setting up those 2 corps means a brand new city or one recently captured can be quickly pop exploded and have the nessessary hammers to quickly produce granary, forge, courthouse, factory, barracks, airport.
NaZ
because it's different but achieves the same mechanic at a less severe scale, if implimented properly.
Psychokitten
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I just got BtS a week ago, and I've noticed the change in inflation, even though I haven't gotten past the medieval age. Since my friend and I do quite a bit of minor modding, we went into the xmls and found that the inflation rate was 150% of what it used to be in vanilla and warlords. Go figure.
As for my opinion on Corporations, they should not be used as a weapon, and they should give a benefit in pretty much any city it's placed in. Look at McDonalds, Microsoft, and Starbucks. They're everywhere, and you don't see nations' economy's crumbling because of it.
A corporation should be beneficial even if you don't have the corporate headquarters, just like a religion is. My solution would be to lower the maintenance cost by maybe 80-90%, lower the +
to the headquarters to +1 rather than +5, and revert the inflation rate back to pre-BtS rate.
The problem with that comes with the benefits of corporations. For such a small amount of maintenance, are the bonuses from the corporation too powerful? I honestly don't know, since I haven't gotten far enough in a game yet.
What would have been really cool, is that if the maintenance cost was variable, depending on the number of resources consumed. That way, smaller nations with less resources could still reap the benefits, although less, but pay less maintenance because of it.
As for my opinion on Corporations, they should not be used as a weapon, and they should give a benefit in pretty much any city it's placed in. Look at McDonalds, Microsoft, and Starbucks. They're everywhere, and you don't see nations' economy's crumbling because of it.
A corporation should be beneficial even if you don't have the corporate headquarters, just like a religion is. My solution would be to lower the maintenance cost by maybe 80-90%, lower the +
to the headquarters to +1 rather than +5, and revert the inflation rate back to pre-BtS rate.The problem with that comes with the benefits of corporations. For such a small amount of maintenance, are the bonuses from the corporation too powerful? I honestly don't know, since I haven't gotten far enough in a game yet.
What would have been really cool, is that if the maintenance cost was variable, depending on the number of resources consumed. That way, smaller nations with less resources could still reap the benefits, although less, but pay less maintenance because of it.
drkodos
Emperor
Cultural Imperialism isn't about crushing economies. Poor (or dead) people cannot continue to purchase gew-gaws and trinkets.
The ubiquity of the faceless Americorps you name is proof that they are indeed a weapon, against our higher ordered thinking....hehe.
BTW: How the _____ do I build a corporate executive to spread these happy financial viruses? Yes, I did all the pre-requisite searches, and I am still clueless as to how to do it.
The shame of my confusion coupled with my mental pygmy status compels me to plead for assistance.
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