Goldmines and develop of provinces

[Democracy Officer Yannick]

Are Goldmines worth it to push in develop? If yes, taxes or production?

And what about other provinces? Which are worth it to develop?

[Anaverageguy41]

Yes if you can afford the inflation
Production since you'll increase how much your goldmines make you and diplo points are arguably the least valuable monarch point
And generally speaking only develop in centers of trade or your capital state since it doesn't cost you extra.
Personally I also develop in provinces with good trade goods or good nodes that I can then use manufactories and production effiency buildings to go nuts with income.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1109709863

I was able to do this and I focused more or less solely on production, late game it is King

[Democracy Officer Yannick]

Im playing as Austria and have problems with money.
I thinking of develop Tyrol

Shouldnt be a big problem or?
But Im afraid of the mine going out of gold. Should there a cap for delevop?



And I should only develop my capital or good trade provinces, right?

Sorry for asking, but yeah, im a little noob in eu4

[Anaverageguy41]

Ehhh Tirol might not be worth it because it's a mountains province and Austria more or less has free reign to butcher the HRE and can PU Hungary through an event chain if i'm not wrong.

The chance of it depleting goes up a tiny amount with each development but even DDRJake who works with PDX and is a community dude that does nuts challenge runs has never seen it so.

And yeah only capital or centers of trade or good trade goods like silk or spices or iron or copper
Capital state because the maintenance doesn't go up for paying for states and it's slightly cheaper in your actual capital

Centers of trade because it's cheaper to develop there

Good trade good provinces because you can then build a manufactory there and make nuts amounts of money

[Democracy Officer Yannick]

Yeah I already PU'd Hungary, unlucky not Bohemia, as they did not get my dynastie.
Im get some money, im not losing money. But I wish I could get more.

But developing Tirol isnt worth it? Because its a mountain? Never noticed that this influences something. lol.

What about the goldmine in Serbia? Is this one worth it to develop?

And iron or copper provinces are worth it, to develop, right?

[Silent]

Don't gold mines run out of gold eventually?

[Tiny Tyrant]

No, they can deplete which halves their production. It can do this multiple times as well, but it gets less likely with each depletion. There is a weird formula for it and math isn't my strong suit, but essentially a mine with 1 base production dev can never deplete; a mine with 2 production dev has a 0.01% of depleting yearly, 0.04% at 3 dev, 0.07% ar 4 dev, etc. So developing the mine increases the chance of it depleting, but it remains tiny.

There's probably a sweet spot to shoot for where you maximize profits with little risk, but I have no clue.

Mountain provinces cost more MP to develop, iirc they are the most expensive. Relying on gold income also requires you to take idea groups which reduce inflation, otherwise you're actually losing more than you're gaining. As for Kosovo, I'm pretty sure that's also a mountain province. It's also a different religion and culture meaning you won't get much out of it without a good deal of time and effort.

[Democracy Officer Yannick]

Hm okay.

But I guess as Austria I have enough admin power^^