awful economy

**Prince of Judah** · July 14, 2009, 08:27 AM

I just started playing this mod and I noticed that im not making any money. Rome is sucking up almost all of my gross income. Is there any chance that this will be changed in Roma Surrectum II?

**Tankbuster** · July 14, 2009, 08:40 AM

It's pretty strange that you're not making any money. RS 1.5 is pretty lenient. What did you do? Start pumping out legions right away, without first building economic structures?

The economy in RS II is still being balanced and tweaked, but my impression is that it will be excellent. It won't be very friendly to blitzers though!

**Prince of Judah** · July 14, 2009, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by Tankbuster

It's pretty strange that you're not making any money. RS 1.5 is pretty lenient. What did you do? Start pumping out legions right away, without first building economic structures?

The economy in RS II is still being balanced and tweaked, but my impression is that it will be excellent. It won't be very friendly to blitzers though!

There are few economic structures to build and not much money to do it with. I haven't trained any units.

**Maximus_96** · July 14, 2009, 08:58 AM

do you have your cities taxes on high or very high?

**Brusilov** · July 14, 2009, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Imperiumiv

There are few economic structures to build and not much money to do it with. I haven't trained any units.

Upload a save game or post some screen shots of the settlement details for Rome and the financial screens.

**Gez** · July 14, 2009, 08:43 AM

the Economy in RS2 is an animal. If you abuse what you got, it will rip you apart. If you nuture and slowly alow yourself to prosper, the economy will become your friend. Just ensure that you don't go on one massive spending spree and then have someone declare war on you. It won't be pretty.

**dvk901** · July 14, 2009, 09:11 AM

I'm a bit shocked....usually people say there is too much money.

**Maximus_96** · July 14, 2009, 09:14 AM

in my current roman game, i have 3 million gold to throw around, never a shortage of it

**HunterKYA** · July 14, 2009, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by dvk901

I'm a bit shocked....usually people say there is too much money.

That's why I liked your mod DVK, it's the only one where I can spend and STILL make money

**dvk901** · July 14, 2009, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by HunterKYA

That's why I liked your mod DVK, it's the only one where I can spend and STILL make money

I try hard to have a situation where one has 'enough' to do as you please. I don't really find it much fun to scrimp and save just to buy a few peasants. It's a game. It's supposed to be fun. So I like to have money to do stuff. Plus, if I have money, so does the AI, which only makes it all the better an opponent.

**Gez** · July 14, 2009, 09:16 AM

How many turns are you into the game and what difficulty?

**Maximus_96** · July 14, 2009, 10:45 AM

H/H year 583 AUC

**Squid** · July 14, 2009, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by Imperiumiv

I just started playing this mod and I noticed that im not making any money. Rome is sucking up almost all of my gross income. Is there any chance that this will be changed in Roma Surrectum II?

Don't forget to ignore the amount you see on the campaign map, it will always be skewed anyways. Just look at your final figures for a turn to see how you're doing. The monetary amount displayed by the settlement name is not an accurate reflection of how much or little it contributes to your economy.

**Antiochos VII Sidetes** · July 14, 2009, 12:06 PM

Truly? This mod is the easiest to make money in, ever. Try EB, IB, or God forbid ATW if you want a deficit.

**HMonk** · July 17, 2009, 08:36 AM

DVK is right. its a game, enjoy it, Plus having alot of money is fun, I like building City's and Army's and things.

I have never been short of cash.

**Leeham991** · July 17, 2009, 04:06 PM

Funny that...

Have you tried just not doing anything for a few turns? I'm kind of a big spender in RS1.5c coz I keep an average profit of 10D (yes small, but at least I not loosing any) when I spend myself down into the low 100s each turn, I never really had this "too much money" thing, but I never even got close to bankruptcy in at least 80 turns.
Maybe try again? I can't see how you could be so poor unless you strapped something in early on.