corruption -

[trk]

wondering what determines it. if one wanted how would one adjust it. presumably there is some modifier in the db that controls it. anyone know what? using carthage : st start 4 provinces 1.9%; at 7 provices 4.9%;at 11 provinces 10,5%;at 16 20.1%; after capturing Magna Graecia and Italia 30.1%. It does seem somewhat excessive.

[trk]

restarted and conquered some provinces at 12 corruption was 11.9&;got the legal institutions tech and reduced corruption by '10%'. actually reduced 11.9 X.10 arriving at 10.5%. excessive. carthage is in the center of things. - baetica, 2 prov carthagenesis, 2 prov mauretania, Libya, Sardinia and lilybaeum. seems unresolvable

[Jinarik]

The following db entries were taken directly from 'campaign_variables':

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tax_efficiency_province_capital_score 1
tax_efficiency_regions_maximum 150
tax_efficiency_regions_middle 25
tax_efficiency_regions_minimum 3
tax_efficiency_result_maximum_reduction 90
tax_efficiency_result_middle_reduction 40
tax_efficiency_result_minimum_reduction 1

These govern corruption in game. You get the minimum reduction until you pass 4 cities, then climb to 40% as you approach 25 cities, and finally climb to 90% as you approach 150 cities. Whether it climbs linearly or logarithmically I don't have a clue. A for corruption modifiers like the Philosophy tree, pretty sure the formula looks something like:

"corruption = base_corruption * (corruption_modifer_1 + corruption_modifer_2 + ... + corruption_modifer_n)"

[trk]

that appears to be absolutely correct. And it does appear to be exceedingly unsophisticated although there may be other factors. here is what I have done. tried manipulating the civil philosophy part of legal institutions by increasing the 10% reduction to 90% to no effect. Could that be a hard-coded 10%? then based on your info set the tax efficiency minimum reduction to 0. but since carthage will quite rapidly exceed the tax regions minimum I also changed that to 24. The result was corruption of 0% with 23 regions! To be more realistic I tried using a minimum reduction of .5 but apparently it must be a whole number. So apparently it is 0% or what seems to me to be excessive. And yes one can manipulate the combinations of #regions and reductions to achieve a rate per #regions. of course this does not address the increase from 1.9 to 30.1 for an increase in regions from 4 to 23. some other factors must be used although if one merely sets the minimum to 0 for up to 24 regions the corruption will be 0