User Guide

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Hiring and
Firing Advisors
Each advisor is assigned
a “home province” when
he is created. You will
receive a message that
notifies you when a new
advisor appears in your
realm, and will have the
exclusive right to hire
him for the first 30 days.
If you choose not to em-
ploy him, he can then
be hired at any time by
another country in the
region. This also means
that there may always be
advisors available for you
to hire from other realms
without your having been
notified of the fact. Once employed, an advisor
will not voluntarily leave his court’s service.
Click on an empty advisor box if you wish
to check who might be available for employ-
ment. You will see a scrollable list of advisors,
including each one’s type, benefits, and skill
level. Each advisor will demand an initial fee
to join your service, as well as a monthly salary
that must be paid from your treasury. To hire
an advisor, simply click on him.
If you click on a box that is already occu-
pied by one of your advisors, you will have the
option to “sack” him. This removes the advisor
from your court and returns him to the pool
of available advisors. You don’t need to fire an
advisor before replacing him. Simply click on
the new advisor you would prefer to employ
on your court and the exchange will be made
automatically. There is no penalty for sacking
an advisor, although he will demand his full
fee should you decide to hire him again in the
future.
Domestic
Economy
The Economy page of
the Domestic Interface is
displayed by clicking the
tab with the sack of gold
symbol. This page con-
tains a summary of your
total provincial and trade
income which can then
allocated to researching
new technologies or im-
proving your country’s
stability. The decisions
you make with this inter-
face will have significant,
lasting effects on your
country; this is the page
that you are most likely
to access on a regular basis.
Income Summary
The scroll on the left side of the screen provides
a summary of your realm’s total monthly budg-
et. The amount displayed for your tax income
is the total combined tax revenue received from
all of your individual provinces. The same is
true for the production income amount. Trade
income has two separate components that are
detailed in the tool tip that appears when you
hover your mouse over the amount. A portion
of your trade income comes from the sale of
each of your province’s trade goods, and the
balance is generated by the activities of your
merchants in the world’s centers of trade. If
you own any provinces that have gold as their
principal trade good, this is reported on the
“gold income” line of the ledger. Your current
efficiency in collecting each of these amounts
is displayed in brackets beside each item, and
is determined by the level of technology that
you have achieved in the corresponding area of
research. Income may be further reduced if a
province is an overseas colony or if any of your