Main Campaign- Is abusing merchants in america considered cheating?

[Golly]

Recently got back into m2tw and came looking for mods, played various factions on various ones now and settled on DLV, scripts add a nice challenge (often a not so nice challenge as well)

Anyways, just wondering after reading through a write up thread of different factions, everyones playing on vh/vh as I am, but first playthrough past 200 turns now as the good old Irish, and once I got access to a port and could travel to the americas, everything seemed to get a bit easy, although il admit before that it was touch and go with rebels and a war over Caernarvon with the english was totally draining me

Just wondered if you guys consider it cheating to obviously abuse the 50-100k profits per turn of the americas?

[Tokus*Maximus]

Nope - not if you hazard the crossing Vs. pirates and then reach the Americas and not find merchants already there! Go fir it - it'll help you assault the Welsh stronghold. You need every penny you can get to win in DLV - there's not always enough money and you have to make concessions.

[cedric37]

@Golly: If you don't like it, i have fixed this in my mini-mod (TOTAL FIGHT), i advertise because maybe this is what you seek
Merchant trading income have been nerfed but overhall economy is ok, more "balanced" between farming, taxes etc.
Powhattan instead of giving you 30K and a merchant in america can easily give 6K, nothing of this exist anymore

[Kjertesvein]

100 k seem alot, I usually stick to europe my friend.

BTW, Since TM is not the guy who welcome new people, I will say "welcome to the dark side".

~Wille

[Golly]

thanks for the welcome

yeah I seem to be making like 120k a turn now, able to fight wars with diplomats, bit silly ^_^

Powhatan is on 37k p/ turn

while im posting and asking a question, can anyone link me to knowledge on basic editing within the game, just wanting to make some certain units open to more factions (NAFFATUN!!) and maybe give a couple of the non catholic factions a heavy unit for later periods, noticed in stainless steel theyd given the moors Christian Guard(?) I think it was, and it helped them out alot- couple of personal balance issues

[Taiji]

I think if you are playing VH/VH and with all scripts enabled then I would avoid that exploiting that trade opportunity. DLV's enjoyability is not enhanced by having too much money.

I didn't realise it was possible, I might try to fix that for BB...

[Golly]

If you have trade with Iberian occupants, and the multitude of +increased trade things in each city, you can bring in 10-35k per settlement, think about 80% of it is trade- yeah I'm just going to avoid heading over there in future games, although it was alot of fun slaying 1600+ unit Aztec armies with endless Irish javelin/horse missile overlapping kiting formations lol- felt like an MMO extend

[Megas12345]

love the irish campaign economy in my experience the emerald isle has a great economy to start with