Mod for less money, more balanced 4 turns/year campaigns

[alhoon]

Long ago, I've made a mod I still use today that slows down money increase for DME. Since that post is lost now, I'll put the mod here again.

It slows down population increase and most importantly: Town wealth increase. It also makes the impact of techs on economy somewhat lesser.
All in all, it's a mod so that by turn 300 you won't be making millions.


This mod is intended for a slower paced campaign. It affects the AI and the player equally.

[keeskaas]

THX!

[Tyockell18]

I want to run this with Darthmod, causa belli and bran mac born mod at the same time, will it cause any negative conflicts or just slow down wealth generation solely?

Thanks for your efforts.

[Bran Mac Born]

It should work. Try it with My Hard economy version in post 9 and you will be hurting.

[alhoon]

It WOULDN'T work well enough!
Either use just Bran's harder economy mod or use mine without Bran's economy mod.

Whoever economy file is loaded last, would mostly cover the other. In some cases, both mods will apply resulting in weirdness.

I suggest you try both and decide which economy suits you best. Mine is geared for 4tpy and it's more "fair" to the player and with slower development in mind. Bran's still allow the player and the AI to build large armies fast.

I also modified religion conversion and population growth.

[Tyockell18]

It WOULDN'T work well enough!
Either use just Bran's harder economy mod or use mine without Bran's economy mod.

Whoever economy file is loaded last, would mostly cover the other. In some cases, both mods will apply resulting in weirdness.

I suggest you try both and decide which economy suits you best. Mine is geared for 4tpy and it's more "fair" to the player and with slower development in mind. Bran's still allow the player and the AI to build large armies fast.

I also modified religion conversion and population growth.

No sorry Alhoon I mean just to use it with his AI mod and Causa belli, not both economy mods together.

[alhoon]

Oh, that totally works. My bad.

Keep in mind that Bran's AI is more aggressive than DME's AI. Not sure if there'll be enough money using this mod.
I.e. Please tell us how it worked after you played 100 turns or something. Especially: Are AI nations going often go bankrupt?

[gastovski]

I managed to bankrupt Brits because blockading their ports. Otherwise they have like infinite money.

[alhoon]

Well, that's supposed to happen.
How you blockaded 6+ ports? The British navy kicks my butt if I try to do that. They have big and powerful navies in my games.
THere's NO WAY on earth I can support 6 full battle fleets that could deal with the English fleet.

Aslo, isn't blockading their main port, the one that gets the goods from the colonies, good enough?

[poa]

You really only need a single fleet to combat their fleet, once their fleet is destroyed,
it takes only a single ship to block a port from either trading and/or recruiting.
There is also only around 3-4 ports that are in active trading usage, block those, and especially the one at London,
and you cripple their economy.
Increasing the first fishing port to 800 and the first shipyard to 2000 really worked like a charm to get AI to build the most suitable port,
i see in game after game how nations now only build fish ports if last town is slow to develop,
and only build a single shipyard.
Lastly it also worked like a charm to allow shipyards trade, albeit with no growth or region wealth,
firstly shipyards now get attacked, especially the shipyard near London, usually by Spain,
and secondly France got a badly needed extra port,
oh, and did i mention that i can now trade with Morocco & Malta

[alhoon]

By the time I use my fleet to destroy their fleet (which I usually don't, they destroy mine) I have enough man-power to just invade and either take all England or damage/occupy the ports.
Also, since I usually play with Persia/Morocco/Mysore first, I reach England when they have 6 ports (I count those fishing port in Ireland too)

[auboy]

Thanks for this just what Im looking for have you made a similar mod for Napoleon?

[alhoon]

Nope.
Played Napoleon like 50-60 hours in total, never made a mod for it.

Also, is it needed for NTW? I mean, each turn is half a month there, so it's pretty balanced.

[Epic28]

Any chances theres a quick way to edit this mod to make it suitable for 2tpy instead of 4tpy?

[MuppetGank]

Yes 2tpy please

[alhoon]

Well, I have one in my home BUT... I don't have internet at home nor will I have for at least a week or so.

[Vingulmark]

2tpy please

[fnpdestroyer]

Hey, I haven't played Empire in a while so I forgot where to put the submods, do you just extract into Empire Total War- Data? or somewhere else?

[RogMrzackrast]

Where exactly do we put this file again?

[alhoon]

You put the mod in the data folder and then you use the launcher to put it in the script or do it manually.