How to keep a strong economy?

[Francophile]

I just fell in love with this game and oh my goodness its so good! But how do I keep a strong economy cause I can't keep funding these wars?

[RedT3rror]

Bellum se ipsum alet

[c00lizz]

Depends on who you are or where you are. Taking provinces, building a trading empire or just punching people for ducats are all viable options.

[Briar]

What c00lizz said, the more we know the better we can assist- Who are you playing? Date and Ideas? What is your goal?

[Francophile]

Originally posted by c00lizz:

Depends on who you are or where you are. Taking provinces, building a trading empire or just punching people for ducats are all viable options.

Is there a guide to trading? I've been transfering trade power in my direction but I don't really know what I'm doing.

[bun]

Just what c00lizz said, but most of your income should come from trade. That means taking provinces who generate lots of trading power. Examples : Holland, London, Lubeck, Danzig, Memel and ect.

It is important also to mention as which country you are playing as. If you would do that we could help you much more.

[Francophile]

Originally posted by Amellis ^-^:

Just what c00lizz said, but most of your income should come from trade. That means taking provinces who generate lots of trading power. Examples : Holland, London, Lubeck, Danzig, Memel and ect.

It is important also to mention as which country you are playing as. If you would do that we could help you much more.

Sorry, I'm currently playing Poland and just took Danzig.

[Unit 202]

I usually turn down maintinence and mothball forts/fleets to get a fat stach of cash prior to a war, and then keep my fleets and forts that wont be worth anything mothballed. Always mothball capital fort when possible, and only activate forts on the front (if fighting teutons and they have no southern allies, mothball said forts.) also you should sell provinces to lithuania when you can form the commonwealth, and then convert culture to prussain, reform when first possible, and the form PLC, and then form Prussia, and go remove Kebab and form Germany with hundreds of thousands of the worlds most diciplined soldiers. Poland breaks the game, in short. I'm curious as to how OP polish prussia is.

[ඞ]

Originally posted by Bamboozled:

I just fell in love with this game and oh my goodness its so good! But how do I keep a strong economy cause I can't keep funding these wars?

Give all you Ducats to a Nigerian Prince. wait 2 centuries, then profit.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Originally posted by Bamboozled:

Sorry, I'm currently playing Poland and just took Danzig.

Poland can safely go Economic. More tax and cheaper development on that big amount of farmland.

But in general the way of getting cash are:

1- getting more trade power in your main node, by conquest of centers of trade and river estuaries + buildings + light ships. After you have plenty there then focus on the secondary area where the second merchant is (the second merchant should be steering to your main node, NOT collecting on secondary node).
2- Tax/administrative development of farmland and grasslands that have no estates, as those increase autonomy and thus greatly reduce gains. Aim to have 9 or more base tax and put temples in all of those. Keep burghers happy and influential, they decrease development cost by up to 10%
3- In wars with very big countries ALWAYS use war indemnities (the 10% war score option). Taking one province from Ottomans is irrelevant. Making them pay 10% of their income isn´t.