A Brief Rant About Europa Universalis II

[HemlockGrey]

Grr! I hate the freakin' beta patch! Sure, it ensures that nations like Russia or the Ottomans don't have to spend so much time smacking down rebels, but they killed the usefulness of both governors and wartaxes.

In 1.07 governors are useful. You build one in a province, and it drops your inflation by 1%. This may not seem so great for one-province German minors, but A) Players always expand and B) They don't get much inflation anyway, unless they take out a dozen loans and go bankrupt or something. Also, it really helps out Spain, Russia, and other large empires that get a lot of inflation, either through having many gold provinces(Spain or anyone else who colonizes the New World) or who have to expend a lot of money in order to build their empire in the first place(Russia).

Now, governors only drop inflation by .25% a year, and you have to have on in EVERY SINGLE PROVINCE to get that .25% drop. That's absurd. Sure, it lets you keep minting a bit of gold consistantly without gaining any inflation, but it essentially dooms large empires to massive inflation, because the cost of governors hasn't been reduced at all.

Wartaxes used to increase your taxes and manpower by 150%, which they still do. And, they used to decrease your Stability by 1, which makes sense. It also kept large empires like the Ottomans or Russia from wartaxing every year and getting 1000 ducats, because it takes so long to regain a stability point.

Now, however, they increase inflation by 1%. Ignoring the fact that it doesn't make any sense, the usefulness of wartaxing has been butchered, because large empires will have to shell out thousands of ducats in order to place a governor in every single province, and small provinces can't decrease their inflation as fast they can regain a stability point.

Grr. Angry. Go smash.

[Pablo Sanchez]

Grr. Angry. Go smash.

I hadn't played too much EU2 since I patched, so I hadn't noticed these problems. This is messed up...

[HemlockGrey]

Yeah, it's why I refuse to use the beta patches. Plain old vanilla 1.07 for me...