Economy help

[ThiccKat]

For the life of me I cannot seem to build economy no matter what I do. Any tips would be appreciated!

[Devil_JCS]

There's a lot of tutorials you can find just by using a search engine or YouTube, but I'll run the basics by you.

Always max your domain limit out. These baronies are where the majority of your income is generated from. If you have to revoke land from your vassals or conquer land from your neighbors to reach your limit, then do it. Just be careful with the timing; if your enemies are strong or your vassals hate you, then just wait for a better chance. Don't be like the AI and cause a massive tyranny rebellion you can't handle just because you're not at your limit.

Always focus on upgrading the development of your domain. More development = more taxes, so have your steward working on that (unless you have the DLC and need to make a hybrid culture). Start on you capital then spread out a bit as the baronies next to a highly developed area also get a boost to development growth.

Be sure to check your innovations to know where things slow down for development growth. Once you hit that number, things will slow down by quite a bit. When it happens, start developing another area.

Lifestyle choices matter. The learning lifestyle tree has the scholarship focus option for development while the stewardship lifestyle has wealth focus. Those 2 lifestyles are your best options for boosting your economy and development.

Build buildings that boost taxes and development. Tradeports, farms, and so forth will boost your economy and development by quite a bit. Of course, they will be expensive to build, especially the later upgrades. It will take some time to get the gold you spent back.

Don't spend too much on MMAs if you're trying to build your economy, especially if it's expensive ones like heavy cavs or advanced horse archers (like heavy horse archers or whatever). It'll slow down your economic growth by quite a bit. You SHOULD have strong MMAs of course, just don't overspend. Archers are a good investment, so start there.

If you have the coronations DLC, always take the "shape the realm" pledge. It gives you free buildings when you build a new holding. The buildings are randomly generated but you can hit the jackpot with those sometimes (like getting a tradeport and a farm right away).

There's a lot more so I'd strongly advice watching some more recent economic tutorials.

[endymionologist]

There are many answers to this depending on where and when you are playing. In many cases, your only immediate option will be to join other people's wars and try to get prisoners to ransom. Invest your money in buildings that give income; there will be a point later when you want buildings planned around your Army, but you can just move to a new Duchy for that. Focus on Stewardship, and try to grow.

[Jawsofwar]

Recommend playing as Bohemia (Vratislav Přemyslid) to get an easy start with how snow bally economy can get.

[ThiccKat]

Thank you all for the help! I am kinda getting the hang of it.