Global Depression?

**shadowlink** · April 20, 2009, 03:14 PM

This is very interesting and new to me, but I think every faction just had a depression in their economy. Im playing Casse and the year is 212BC. All of a sudden, my cities are starting to lose money and then they start to lose a lot of money and Im thinking whats going on? I cut my costs and destroy buildings I dont need to stay afloat and at 23,000 minai, im the richest factions and I was like whaaaaaat? Then I checked, and only the rich factions like egypt, rome, and saudi arabian factions all had their finances just plummet.

You think the developers implemented this into the game for a certain time period to be like a global recession in the factions economies?

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · April 20, 2009, 03:18 PM

There isn't anything planned at that time. Maybe the Romans artificially proped up the housing market?

Have you had the script running at all times?
It may just be the case that the AI all settled in to where they wanted things and started to waste money. After about thre to four hundred turns, the AI tends to go stale.

**shadowlink** · April 20, 2009, 04:49 PM

oops I just realized only those factions, I'm sorry i meant all the factions have expierienced a global depression and bottomed up. And I dont know about that theory, Egypt kept rolling and rolling, they are a ridiculous power house.

**Scutarii** · April 20, 2009, 05:44 PM

Its not scripted, so the AI factions are recruiting themselves into the floor... And you must be too.

**Revan The Great** · April 20, 2009, 06:06 PM

Just like the Cold War arms race!

My money is on the AI, who get their debts practically paid off each turn. >_>

**Marcion** · April 20, 2009, 11:32 PM

Maybe the partially-congealed fish guts bubble finally burst in Greece.

**Banfred** · April 21, 2009, 04:04 PM

The Seleucids must be bailing out the boiled sheep's head market in Babylon!

**simplemind07** · April 22, 2009, 06:15 PM

History really does repeat itself LOL

**DraeKlae** · April 23, 2009, 04:17 PM

Maybe the AI decided to build a navy and built 5 ships or something like that in the same turn. Those ships are REALLY expensive, 6000 mnai to build and more 2000 as upkeep

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About your cities starting to lose money, maybe some AI city which you had trade rights with rebelled or was captured by another faction. Maybe you built too much buildings which weren't good for money or you recruited too much soldiers and the upkeep hurt your income.