My dwindling fortune

[Ehden]

So, at the beginning of the game I built up a fortune of 300 000 denars. However now that I am king and I have my own order my money is slowly trickling away.What is the best way to stop this? I get a good amount from taxes, looting etc. but I think it wont last much longer

 

[Tomas14]

If your CKO is already well equipped and trained, perhaps you can give them doom maces? Then go hunt the smaller jatu warbands.

 

[Alavaria]

Well are you holding tons of expensive troops in garrisons etc that won't ever be used?

 

[madboy]

Seriously, I cant savvy how one can run out of money in POP. there's so many ways into it.

What I do is:
1. get troops from prisoner stacks
2. get them killed in battles
3. auto-calc battles if they thrash me too hard (thus get prisoners)
4. sell/rid all that's useless (tropps too)
5. do tourneys (if needed).

Can't imagine not having dough after all this. works best if your relations with towns is +30 to sell loot. I tend to oscillate between 400k-700k denars, depending on how much free time vs war I have.

which altogether brings me to this conclusion: DON'T start your kingdom too early

 

[Alavaria]

Yeah having a couple of 100 relationship towns helps a lot.

It's easy too, if you know a couple tricks to grinding it. (eg: the Train your steward bonus)

 

[heckani]

How much does the relation with towns help you esxactly? is it 1% bonus for each relation both for price decrease and increase or what? or just 1 denar? Also you just raise it by the tavern buying ale to them or waste time doing quests? Just wondering if its worth it

 

[madboy]

How much does the relation with towns help you esxactly? is it 1% bonus for each relation both for price decrease and increase or what? or just 1 denar? Also you just raise it by the tavern buying ale to them or waste time doing quests? Just wondering if its worth it

it's worth it IF you sell a lot. occasional trading makes no difference. the span from 0 relations to 100 makes about 40% difference, so instead of selling sth for 1000 denars you'll sell it for about 1400 (at trading skill 5). more or less.

also the better relations the cheaper you buy. makes a hell lot of difference if you buy spiffy good stuff like lordly armor or rare weapons. 

And one more.. if you bring good loot some shops tend to have lots of cash - like tens of thousands of denars. will help you rid expensive items without worrying if they actually have the cash (some will have).

 

[heckani]

How much does the relation with towns help you esxactly? is it 1% bonus for each relation both for price decrease and increase or what? or just 1 denar? Also you just raise it by the tavern buying ale to them or waste time doing quests? Just wondering if its worth it

it's worth it IF you sell a lot. occasional trading makes no difference. the span from 0 relations to 100 makes about 40% difference, so instead of selling sth for 1000 denars you'll sell it for about 1400 (at trading skill 5). more or less.

also the better relations the cheaper you buy. makes a hell lot of difference if you buy spiffy good stuff like lordly armor or rare weapons. 

And one more.. if you bring good loot some shops tend to have lots of cash - like tens of thousands of denars. will help you rid expensive items without worrying if they actually have the cash (some will have).

Thanks alot mate. I´ll add that to my trading and just buy ale wherever I can untill all towns are at 100, wil lbe fun to see if this can make it possible to reach 10 million in a decent time. 40% sounds insane, will definitely try it as my trading is at 10. (not sure if thats 50% or 70% due to the bonuses actually) but 40% if its just for 100 relation i´d assume each point is roughly 0.4% decrease/increase in prices then. If what you say is true, and thats excellent! 

 

[Elf]

Keep no more than 2 walled fiefs but a lot of villages.  All other walled fiefs should be given to vassals.  Your budget should look great without much micro-management then.

 

[Alavaria]

Note that Trade skill & relationship also boosts what stuff like armor sells for, and the gains are pretty nice when you're at the stage of constantly looting plate armors and whatnot.

 

[Ehden]

Actually right now I have a kingdom of 2 towns and 4 castles. I have 2 dishonorable (Placeholder) vassals so I'm not giving away any castles as well. The problem is i'm not at war war with anyone so all I can do is put everyone away and go after small parties.

 

[Awesomeblader]

The best way is ctrl-x tbh

 

[Ehden]

Cheating just isn't my way  If I play a game and  I cheat then I just dont feel like I accomplished anything

 

[heckani]

Cheating just isn't my way  If I play a game and  I cheat then I just dont feel like I accomplished anything

Same, I mean whats the point then? Also for people who uses "just money cheat" like 1) its not needed 2)  ehhh then why even play, go do custom battles or something. Like ofc they can, but its very weird indeed. However its nice to see people using ctrl x + money cheats when you as yourself slaughter them with your CKO even faster than ctrl x can do it + got more money in the bank than any finger could press a button xD

 

[Awesomeblader]

Yeah, I don't think they should have added the op cheats in the game. I must admit I played with them for 5 minutes on native. Killed everything, got boring.

 

[Evelyn]

Have you considered that they might've been useful as debugging and development tools?

 

[Mad Vader]

Also some people DEMAND cheats and go nuts if there are none, so they are virtually required in any game for some time now.
For those that can't control their actions and want an in-game restriction, it's as simple as turning cheats off in the launcher.