Is it possible to reduce inflation in EUIII?

**Blatta Optima Maxima** · June 28, 2011, 08:50 AM

It keeps plaguing me - as soon as I manage to get decent income, inflation mounts and ruins it.

**Pat89** · June 28, 2011, 09:27 AM

You need to recruit a Master of Mint advisor (spam commission painting ideas as often as possible to get a high cultural % thing). Get the National Bank idea as soon as you can. And finally reduce minting to a minimum (move the slider such that it only just says -0 (which is a very minor reduction) or mint even less if you need to reduce inflation. You will really have to live from your yearly income then (and likely even lose money each month - lower millitary maintainance to reduce this to a minimum when at peace), so in the beginning you might feel like you have less money to spend compared to your normal strategy when minting, but in the long run you will benefit from it

**Blatta Optima Maxima** · June 28, 2011, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by PatricianS

You need to recruit a Master of Mint advisor (spam commission painting ideas as often as possible to get a high cultural % thing). Get the National Bank idea as soon as you can. And finally reduce minting to a minimum (move the slider such that it only just says -0 (which is a very minor reduction) or mint even less if you need to reduce inflation. You will really have to live from your yearly income then (and likely even lose money each month - lower millitary maintainance to reduce this to a minimum when at peace), so in the beginning you might feel like you have less money to spend compared to your normal strategy when minting, but in the long run you will benefit from it

Are any of those available for Persia?

EDIT: Thanks, it's working. Too bad I'll have to start quite a while back with 15.4 inflation.

I guess I'll start from some historical point close to my current campaign.

**SLN445** · June 28, 2011, 06:16 PM

I usualy end up around 20-40% inflation, but thats because im playing nations that desperatly require minting to survive.

Its not a game ending issue to have inflation, 15% is far from bad, with masters of the mint and national bank you will get that down soon enough and if you want you can continue to mint and keep the inflation from increasing.

**Coal143** · June 28, 2011, 07:14 PM

I usualy end up around 20-40% inflation, but thats because im playing nations that desperatly require minting to survive.

Its not a game ending issue to have inflation, 15% is far from bad, with masters of the mint and national bank you will get that down soon enough and if you want you can continue to mint and keep the inflation from increasing.

Do this if you want to die

Also, if it becomes too unbearable you can just disable it from the options screen

**SLN445** · June 28, 2011, 10:56 PM

Bah! Its not going to kill you if you keep it managed. Ive dominated plenty of games even with high inflation starting from a minor nation... its realy only an annoyance unless you let it spiral out of control.

**Veliky Kaiser Theos** · June 28, 2011, 11:08 PM

How on earth do you get that much inflation? I'm quite fanatical about keeping my inflation below 1%, even with initially weak nations that are meant to die.

**Blatta Optima Maxima** · June 29, 2011, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by J.Philp

How on earth do you get that much inflation? I'm quite fanatical about keeping my inflation below 1%, even with initially weak nations that are meant to die.

My first campaign, I was so eager to annex as much territory as possible (Damn you, RTW) as quickly as possible, to such an extent I forgot about inflation. Thank god I didn't forget about research.

**SLN445** · June 28, 2011, 11:11 PM

In my games it would be impossible to beat a full strength england with an irish nation otherwise.

My question is, how do you cope otherwise with a weak nation designed to be flyswatted by its horribly strong neighbour?

**BetaWolf** · June 29, 2011, 11:52 PM

I do inflation "from gold" on the options screen (available since Napoleon's Ambition I think). I'm no economist, but it doesn't make much sense to me if a government prefers to hoard its bullion rather than spend it on research of various kinds. I'm sure it's a game balancing mechanism, though not a very good one.

**Scipio Afracanis** · June 30, 2011, 04:10 PM

Since I can manage inflation and seeing how it screws the AI nations over after 150-200 years with 20-50% inflation I just turn it off. I never let it get above 7% in any EU3 game I have ever played. From Brandenburg to Naples to England ect......

Now it does speed the game up that you can mint with no consequence but I am not a WC type of player anyway. I just take some land and build it up having modest borders.

**Shneckie** · July 03, 2011, 01:14 PM

Man, my inflation right now is at 9% or something wild. I've hired masters of mint but it doesn't do anything noticeable. Mind you I have been annexing territories like mad from England and Denmark.

In my games it would be impossible to beat a full strength england with an irish nation otherwise.

My question is, how do you cope otherwise with a weak nation designed to be flyswatted by its horribly strong neighbour?

Simple, flyswat other weak nations or create a kind of alliance block.

I suggest annexing all your Irish neighbours first while trying to establish diplomatic relations with potential enemies of the English. Certainly Scotland you want to enter an alliance with since as soon as they enter a state of war with England they receive significant "Resist the English" bonuses. Fortunately I chose to play as Scotland on my first playthrough and I'm now currently in the year 1489 or so and I have England completely annexed bar London.

**SLN445** · July 03, 2011, 04:10 PM

Simple, flyswat other weak nations or create a kind of alliance block.

I suggest annexing all your Irish neighbours first while trying to establish diplomatic relations with potential enemies of the English. Certainly Scotland you want to enter an alliance with since as soon as they enter a state of war with England they receive significant "Resist the English" bonuses. Fortunately I chose to play as Scotland on my first playthrough and I'm now currently in the year 1489 or so and I have England completely annexed bar London.

Whenever i go after another irish nation i always get flyswatted straight away by england, negating the entire affair.... maby im just unlucky.

**Shneckie** · July 03, 2011, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by SLN445

Whenever i go after another irish nation i always get flyswatted straight away by england, negating the entire affair.... maby im just unlucky.

Build up your alliances first. Ally with the other Irish nations too. I'm not sure if having Denmark as an ally will be possible at an early stage for such a minor nation but if you do manage to sway them it's worth it since they command several other nations in return.

**SLN445** · July 03, 2011, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by Shneckie

Build up your alliances first. Ally with the other Irish nations too. I'm not sure if having Denmark as an ally will be possible at an early stage for such a minor nation but if you do manage to sway them it's worth it since they command several other nations in return.

Righto, i had french protecting me in one of my games, negated englands navy but they still managed to send about 30k troops before i bogged them down with mercenarys.

**Irish Warrior** · July 03, 2011, 04:32 PM

My inflation is around 103.6, my buildings cost twice as much, but I'm cutting down on it, in all my rich provinces I have tax assessors and I have 3 mint masters, so in around 50 years I should be down to about ~70.