Inflation...AAUGH...Help

[RRRaskolnikov]

Hi all,

something to be noted:
Ingame inflation expenses are directly proportionnal to your expense/turn... so an ORGANIZED leader (reduced civic cost) will less suffer from inflation than another one with the same empire... (Conclusion to the OP: try organized )

Cheers,

Raskolnikov

edit: too late again as fed1943 already said that... @mods: delete this if you feel like it thanks

 

[GooglyBoogly]

Speaking of which, corporations add directly to the city maintenance (although are modified by courthouses), so that expense is multiplied by inflation as well, meaning corps will become more expensive as inflation rises.

In later versions of Civ4 corporation maintainence was modified by adding a factor that exactly cancels out the effects of inflation, so form a gameplay perspective inflation has NO EFFECT on corp maintainence costs see this thread for the exact mechanics

 

[The Capo]

I've never had inflation problems, but as I've said I've never really looked, so I must naturally do something that lessens the problem. I just wish I knew more about the mechanics behind it so I could figure out what it is that I'm doing.

 

[Joshua368]

I've never had inflation problems, but as I've said I've never really looked, so I must naturally do something that lessens the problem. I just wish I knew more about the mechanics behind it so I could figure out what it is that I'm doing.

What you're doing is having a nice economy.

I've never noticed inflation either, except when I get that nice -25% event and get to move my slider up a notch.

 

[S.ilver]

In later versions of Civ4 corporation maintainence was modified by adding a factor that exactly cancels out the effects of inflation, so form a gameplay perspective inflation has NO EFFECT on corp maintainence costs see this thread for the exact mechanics

My apologies for the false information. I was not aware of the reducing mechanic for corporations. From the financial screen it appears that inflation acts as a blanket cost over all the expenses, and I assumed it did the same to corporation payments.

I just checked a series of saves, and it does indeed show the corporate maintenance going down as the inflation goes up, so I assume the mechanic simply ensures a "real" cost for the corporation stays the same, by lowering the "city maintenance" portion as parts of the payments are moved to inflation. This does lead to a misleading inflation number though.

EDIT: BTW, thanks for the datalinks update in your sig Googly.

 

[cabert]

dave is a man of few words, but his advice is still the best

Basically you need to improve your economy if you want to push it further, improvement which will allow you to win earlier