<t> Another strange thing:<br/>
I conquered the turkish protectorate provinces bavaria and nuremberg in a war with turkey. In the surrender treaty I let them liberate Berg, the last bavarian turkish province.<br/>
I can now ask Berg to form a protecorate. If I do so, bavaria and nuremberg are ...

How big is your total trader income? It is reduced by 50/feudal level but always only to a minimum of 20%. So if your total trader income is <60 it doesn´t matter if you have a feudal level of 1 or bigger.

<t> In my last game, the polish army also behaved very strange. I attacked Poland as Prussia, while it was still free. First, I fought some battles against them. Then, two polish armies retreated to my province East Prussia. There they didn´t do nothing anymore. No move, no siege, no plunder ...

<t> Question 3:<br/>
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"Each level of feudalism reduces the amount of merchant<br/>
ship income by 50 Money, to a minimum of 20% of the base amount of merchant ship income." (manual, p61)<br/>
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So I think it is simply you level of feudalism that reduces the mechant income so much. I ...

<t> My main problem is more with the former protectorates of the majors.<br/>
E.g. if I conquer the french protectorate batavia during war, then it is under my direct control but still in the list of protectorates of france (in the french view relations screen). So I cannot release it. I also ...

<t> If I conquer provinces, that are protectorates of other nations, they normally become directly home-provinces of me (no small flag shown on the province information). Furthermore, they don´t appear in the country information window. When I click on the relation info window of the former ...

Since the installation of 1.1. I often don´t find the "My Treaties" option on the diplomacy screen. It only appears if I go to the view treaties screen, close it and open it again.
Don´t know if this bug existed already with 1.0, but there I never noticed it.

So, I´ll take prussia then (but I´m still open to take any other nation)
I think it´s a good idea to check if we don´t get any long delays because of time zone problems.
I´m GMT+1 (and I´m usually only able to answer during day-time)

I also would like to join you. I´m open to play any country (no experience with most of them - that makes it more interesting [:)])
No problems with two turns a week, but I can only answer to everything that arrives from mon - fri between 9-18 CET.

<t> And don´t forget Saint-Berthélemy, an island in the west indies. Sweden bought it from France in the late 18th century and kept it for 100 years. <br/>
Okay, it is a little bit weird to compare this little rock with the spanish colonial empire, but still it was a little colony. [:)]<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ralegh<br/>
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Many times. Sometimes, they approach me ("enemies: none"), and sometimes I use the right click menu to ask them [yes, thats right - if the relationship is good enough, when you right click on them it will have 'form protectorate' as an option ...

Question: Would releasing protectorates help in this situation? Or do you only lose the control on them while you still have to pay food and luxury goods?

<t> I think I understand now roughly what´s the difference between the sum of the provincial incomes (SPI) and the national income (NI) shown in the grey boxes on the development advisor screen:<br/>
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You get the SPIx1 for all but textiles and x2 for texitiles as starting value.<br/>
From ...

Maybe yes, but I didn´t had any trade

<t> Thank you very much for the replies [:)]!!!<br/>
I should have searched earlier for the waste threads. Now I really understand it much more... and suddenly it makes sense, even if the rules are very hard [;)]<br/>
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Thanks also for the provincial income list, Mexico! This is great! Do you ...

<t> Hello everybody,<br/>
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I really enjoy COG up to now, but I have some serios problems to understand how the economy works in the game. Maybe some of you can help me!<br/>
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I made some tests on the economics by looking at changes on the development advisor screen for the first turns ...