I don't understand "Financial problems"

[Dancing Hoskuld]

I am playing a "snail" speed game, at turn 77 I am still in the ancient era. I have over 2000 in my treasury (due to luck with goody huts) and since all I can spend it on is tech I have my tech at 90% and esponage at 10%. This means that I am running a deficit of 6-10 per turn (or less than 1% of my treasury). Why do my people think there are financial problems? It is because I have too much money? Or should I be talking to Afforess since I am using his merged RevDCM in RoM?

 

[glider1]

I'd say you have discovered the limits of the algorithm as it stands now. The issue will probably be in the Revolutions code. It is extremely rare to have 2000 in the treasury in the ancient age. Does it matter? Your financial deficit is only one factor affecting domestic stability.
Cheers.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

I'd say you have discovered the limits of the algorithm as it stands now. The issue will probably be in the Revolutions code. It is extremely rare to have 2000 in the treasury in the ancient age. Does it matter? Your financial deficit is only one factor affecting domestic stability.
Cheers.

All the others are very faint in the list where as the financial problems one is bright white. It is also the only one I have any chance of changing for 50-200 turns .

I am playing RoM with Afforess' improvements and he has just announced that he made a mistake in a revolution calculation increasing the chance of rebellion by 25% so that may be the major source of my fustration.

 

[Snofru1]

Comparing to real life:

Maybe the ancient people just didn´t like the high amount of research. They considered it a kind of wizzardry ...

 

[Carwyn]

I've had "financial problems" listed as "bad" with revolutions pretty much every game early on, whether I had a strong economy or a weak one (playing ROM 2.71 and also with 2.8). I'm suspecting something is wrong here, possibly what's reported, probably with how the game figures the revolution index?

 

[Earlydawn]

This perplexes me, as well. I almost inevitably run into Financial Problems, despite a positive income stream and deep treasury. Even more perplexingly, it occasionally appears as a positive factor towards national stability.

 

[Duuk]

Yeah, the text should really be renamed "Financial Situation" or "Economy"

 

[Carwyn]

I'd like to know what causes it and how to avoid it. Any ideas? I get that even when my economy is strong.