Stainless steel economy

[Zdravko Čolić]

I have installed stainless steel mod and started playing with England, and my economy is throught the roof (very rich) and I didnt do anything special except captouring Caernarvon and Edinburgh.Is it normal that u have stronger economy in mod than in vanila version ?

[Snake]

yes, that's why sometimes i prefer vanilla version. Stainless Steel is good for units variety and bigger map, but you can become filthy rich doing nothing special, even not conquering other cities.

[Zdravko Čolić]

Originally posted by Snake:

yes, that's why sometimes i prefer vanilla version. Stainless Steel is good for units variety and bigger map, but you can become filthy rich doing nothing special, even not conquering other cities.

hmmm, dissapointing at least other factions are rich too

[Inardesco]

Economy is dirt easy in Stainless Steel and until you have a load of regions it wont go down due to development.

At game start your economy is strong, troop availability isn't.

[Tephros83]

Originally posted by Snake:

yes, that's why sometimes i prefer vanilla version. Stainless Steel is good for units variety and bigger map, but you can become filthy rich doing nothing special, even not conquering other cities.

That doesn't seem surprising at all. It's good units that cost money, and good units are hard to come by early on - and if you're not conquering cities you're presumably not using a ton of units. Castles are less of a drain too, so it's especially profitable sitting there doing nothing. Given the object of the game is to capture a lot of cities, it doesn't do much good to accumulate money doing nothing though. If one is filthy rich, it just means you're not expanding fast enough.

[Inardesco]

To be honest, early game England is different from earlt game byzantines for instance,

So with byzantines money will be spend on troops and buildings, with England you cant spend the money because troops are unavailable and you lack the settlements to keep building, thus money piles up.