When i start to expand my country it costs money. From start it easy to control. But when i already have 1/3 of landspace and start to conquest other nations its very hard to keep my nation earn money. In last game i conquest two nations and had control of one continent. Then i start to conquest another continent and my money really was going to drop. My research progress was 0% and my money was still -1000 per turn. Is there any way to avoid this? Am i doing something wrong?
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- Thread starter MaunoKasa
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Are you using beyond the sword expansion? It added an extra maintenance cost that you pay for cities on a different contient to your capital. This starts off reasonably low but once you have more than about 4 or 5 cities it really starts to get huge. However you can also now set up a colony on a different contients to overcome this. The cities liberated are given to a new friendly vassal civilization controlled by the AI and you no longer pay this type of maintenence for them. This can make it easier to get conquest/domination victory when you need to take multiple contients.
Other than that there are only the usual things to suggest to reduce maintenece. Make sure all your cities have courthouses and it helps to have a few cities with well developed towns. You can also increase gold yield with specialists, religious shrines, gold in trades from AI or even pillagaing if you can take the war weariness.
One of the best new ways to get big income is to found a coporation or two (preferably in you city with wall street) and spread this to the AI. The advantage here is that it brings in gold to help you economy, aswell as costing the AI more maintenence in their cities and hurting their economy.
Other than that there are only the usual things to suggest to reduce maintenece. Make sure all your cities have courthouses and it helps to have a few cities with well developed towns. You can also increase gold yield with specialists, religious shrines, gold in trades from AI or even pillagaing if you can take the war weariness.
One of the best new ways to get big income is to found a coporation or two (preferably in you city with wall street) and spread this to the AI. The advantage here is that it brings in gold to help you economy, aswell as costing the AI more maintenence in their cities and hurting their economy.
Also in all versions of the game you pay high maintenece costs for cities far from your capital. If this distance to capitial maintenece is what is hurting you it can be reduced by building vesailles or forbidden palace on the other contient, or removed completly by running the state property civic
Yes i'm using beyond the sword expansion. I thought that colony thing when that was suggested but i thought that then i would have another country to conquest 
But i guess these colony countries effect my conquest/domination progress too? So if i have 60% of all landmass and i set up colony which landmass is 20% then i would have only 40% of all landmass. So i would have to do more conquering?
Doesnt sound so good when trying to conquer all
But i guess these colony countries effect my conquest/domination progress too? So if i have 60% of all landmass and i set up colony which landmass is 20% then i would have only 40% of all landmass. So i would have to do more conquering?
Doesnt sound so good when trying to conquer all
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