Having a hard time managing cities/castles

[SnArF|D]

I started a scottland campaign and completely destroyed England and France. Im currently campaigning against Spain. I just about own all of western europe. Now I have all these cities and I am having a hard time keeping them all up to date with the latest buildings and what not. Its just so over whelming. None of my cities are rioting thankfully.

Spain grew very large early on, they wiped out the moors and managed to push east and wipe out milan as well. then they pushed north into the HRE. so all of my military resources are currently being put against spain.

Im literally fighting a war against spain on 2 fronts here. Both west and east and its wearing my cash flow out.

[Aeratus]

Use the building/recruitment indicators on the campaign map so you'll know what's going on in your cities just by glancing over. Also, make sure you have "manage all cities" on before the campaign (so the AI auto-manage doesn't intrude). As for taxes, I just put all settlements on lowest taxation after a certain point, so that takes care of the tax management.

[In3x]

I personally like to check every settlement I own every turn to make sure it is building or producing troops. I try to make sure that farms and roads are built first, and priority goes to the cheaper buildings in less well developed settlements. If you try to constantly build economic buildings in all settlements soon you will have shedloads of money.

[MeMongo]

I have a real easy way to keep up with construction, as long as you are building in every settlement....

After each turn, you will get the "Construction Report", left click it and it will open all your completed structures, then click the magnifying glass next to the top settlement on the list, it will take you to that settlements construction screen.

Build your next structure, then close the construction screen for that settlement, this will automatically bring back the "Construction Report" list, click the next settlement magnyfying glass, repeat this until you are building in all settlements!

This makes it real simple for me, just do it each turn, be sure not to delete the construction report before your finished.

Hope it helps!

[crzyrndm]

Or right click on the cities tab at the bottom of the UI. It has indicators for building, recruitment and tells you the actual PO value(eg. 120)

[diez]

one of the above:constraction report.
otherwise automanage except big key cities/castles and border areas

[Doge Domenico]

Automanage actually works pretty well, just don't use it on your main citadel or city. And set all of your safe city on Financial buildings.