Inflation and How to Stop It

[Krunchyman]

I am here to post a story. A very interesting story about my massively large empire on a huge warlord level map, and a problem that's been bugging me.

This is my empire.

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Sorry about the bad picture, it was all the site would allow me to post. I am playing as Rome (Purple- Red, capital in North America) and currently own all of north and south America, most of Africa, as well as numerous island countries, and a colony in India. The picture also shows my best unit, with an experience of 56.

I am playing on the Huge ice age map, but lately, I've noticed a funny thing that's been happening to my economy. It seems that there is an apparent increase in my Civ's expenses, and when I found out what it was, it appeared that inflation was striking my empire. I tried to stop it, but it appears that it could not be stopped. Inflation is now up to about -400 gold per turn. It's not that much, seeing that I have an income of about 1,000 gold, but I am playing a very long game and I'm attempting to conquer the world. But it could become a major problem in the future.

Well, anyways, I was wondering if anyone could possibly know how to stop this effect. The last resort would be to mod my map, as that would take all the fun out of it.

Any ideas?

 

[coanda]

Inflation is a simple effect which automatically increases based on game year. The only ways to stop it are with mods or by winning faster.

 

[Blacklanner]

as coanda said, there isn't any way to stop or reduce inflation directly. The way it works it's a slowly rising % penalty to your normal costs, so if you can lower those costs you can also lower the actual extra gold cost of inflation. The percentage can't be lowered except by one random event if you have events on and get lucky. How fast inflation rises depends on your difficulty setting. On higher difficulties it will get over 100% by the end of the game if i'm remembering right.

 

[6K Man]

Lower your base costs. If you aren't in State Property, that can help. Build courthouses. Be cautious about corporation spread.

 

[Pangaea]

I had over 100%, and that was on Noble. Must have been around 1900AD. That sounds to be very high to me.

 

[Krunchyman]

Yes, you're right. My inflation is up to 110 percent. If I'm trying to conquer the world, I'm about halfway there. Note: I am playing overtime, even though I won the game quite some time ago.

 

[coanda]

Corporation costs are unaffected by inflation (your base cost for the corporation branch is deliberately decreased as fast as inflation makes its final cost rise, so you pay the same total amount no matter what inflation is). Thinking they are affected by inflation is a common misconception because the game itself uses a lousy hack to make it work that way so the upkeep information is displayed in a highly misleading format.

 

[T-hawk]

Do you have the most recent 3.19 patch for Beyond the Sword? Inflation was reduced in one of the patches from the initial release of BTS. It is higher if you have never patched.

 

[cabert]

the game is won, so don't worry

 

[RIcs]

Overseas cities' upkeep costs are so much higher.

consider vasselise your enemies, let them beg for peace.

For which , you can move your attacking force faster, and the vasslised forces can absorb most of the counter attack for you.

 

[Liquidated]

If you are not running state property in that screen, turn it on.


Cheers!
-Liq