WAD ? - Economical Crisis and Inflation

[Siegfroh]

Here the short story of my short economical crisis, playing as Prussia.

In December 1850 rumours spread. Those Frenchmen:

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In January 1851, the crisis reached Prussia (and many many other countries):

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Suddenly, inflation jumped form zero to 5%. I am not sure, but probably national moral was affected as well.

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In February, a small release:

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Two weeks later (I had to save some money first, in order to be able to afford it), I declared a good imports subsidy with the aim to lower inflation:

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This was effectuated:

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and reduced inflation from 4% to 3%:

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In March 1851, another effect of the crisis:

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However, when I checked my production sites, all were working. And the inflation was gone, back to zero:

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Does inflation just disappear like nothing ? Should it ?



And here, unrelated to the crisis, a warning. Don't check the quality of drugs just before you are going to buy them. The dealer may cheat you:

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[Siegfroh]

I replayed the last turn. A different message:

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which isn't reflected by the behaviour of the people or the the revolt risk: no change there.

And inflation is back to zero again.

[loki100]

sounds pretty normal to be honest - or at the worst reflects the sequence and consequences that has always been in PoN

[Siegfroh]

sounds pretty normal to be honest - or at the worst reflects the sequence and consequences that has always been in PoN

Thanks, if it is intended and always workd like this, I am fine.

I was prepared to invest 1000 state money and wait for months until more options for issuing inflation-reducing decrees popped up. Hence my surprise to see the economical crisis solved as quickly as it came, without my intervention, and within a quarter of a year only.

So the smaller messages describing demonstrations, strikes and shutdowns as effects of the crisis are just meaningless flavour, I presume ?

[Siegfroh]

I found a description of the typical economic crisis here:

http://www.ageod.net/agewiki/Economic_Crisis

Once a country is in crisis, it will have some chance, every turn, to have further effects on its economy. These effects include having the population become more militant, losing some capital funds, and recovering a little from inflation (this one is a positive effect).

So it seems "recovering a little from inflation" can mean a reduction of up to at least 3 %, if the last official patch works as intended.

The smaller messages describing demonstrations, strikes and shutdowns as effects of the crisis are just meaningless flavour, aren't they ? I didn't play on to investigate further, but decided again to wait for the next patch.

[loki100]

I might well be wrong but I think there is a long term cost. You get inflation which raises prices for a while (I think there are trigger dates in the year), then you get the recovery events which eliminates the inflation but if you suffered any earlier increases they stay in the game - so slowly prices will go u. I think this is meant to balance the mid/late game issue where most economies have too much cash (regardless of other shortages).

I'm quite prepared to admit I may be wrong here but that is my understanding.

I think the other messages are essentially chrome but maybe triggered by some small drops in contentment. As long as your population is basically high on contentment and low on militancy then its the sort of small shift that gets eliminated over time without you noticing - it might be more important if you already have significant problems.