Respenus |
05-29-16 12:48 PM |
You are correct, Betonov. As long as your troops are inside the city/fort, the games treats it as under siege, as enemy units are present in the "countryside". So, taking the enemy out requires you to order your troops to march out of the city and have some outdoors target practice. :)
While we are on the subject of giving out advice and taking into account the current worldwide food shortages, one more thing that you can do to improve your chances of buying something - in addition to having a commercial agreement - is to offer a higher than market price. You can do that by going to the trade screen of a specific trade region (Press 'T' over some part of the map) and you will see all the goods offered there. All you have to do then, is press the round icon representing the good in question and you will offer a 25% premium. This way you can all buy Italian foodstuffs more easily and poor, poor Piedmont-Sardinia will have some extra investment monies. Win-win for everyone! :woot:
I just remembered one more thing that I did not cover previously and that may actually be the cause of the food shortages you guys are having. In the top of the F4 screen, you have a row of 4 square white buttons with images of goods on them. When you hover over, they say something like "Conversion of ..." This allows you to convert gold/gems into state money (plus inflation), food (cereals, cattle, fish, etc...) into preserved food, supply goods into supply on map and ammunition goods into ammunition on the map. You can see if any of these are in effect by hovering over the goods in question in the fourth line of the same screen. If you see it mention conversion, press the corresponding button (you may have to do it a couple of times to see the game responding) and make certain that it if OFF! While preserved food is useful (and in short supply on the world market), it is a disproportionally heavy burden to your agriculture.
Hopefully these two advices will help stabilise world production and see a return of stability across the world. Of course, those countries that have access to untapped food resources should build up them up as soon as possible. Piedmont-Sardinia cannot be the world's breadbasket all on its own.
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