Estate Income & Bankruptcy Fix
Estate Tax Base is proportional to the Control in each location.
1. Apparently this was intended by the devs, but it doesn’t really make sense. Why should local nobles and burghers make less money if the crown can’t control them?
2. Estate expenses are *not* Control-dependent, so estate expenses tend to far outstrip estate income in any large country. This means that estates build less than they should, and since loans are primarily sourced from estate treasuries, you may lose and never regain the ability to take on debt.
– Every month (player)/year (AI), estates are paid the income shortfall from lack of control.
– To prevent estate treasuries from getting out of hand, this reimbursement is only paid if the estate treasury is less than 100x their tax base.
– To prevent players from going bankrupt with a single loan, estates are guaranteed to have a minimum amount of money to satisfy a loan, as long as the player has less than 2 active loans.
– The estate income shortfall due to control is not the only economic balance issue in the game. We do not seek to make broader balance fixes beyond ensuring that estates can build buildings and loan money.
