It took me a while to realize this, but even though i have proportional taxation and a booming economy I was perpetually in debt all game. This is because the changes to ships making you pay for there construction through the ship construction queue.
The problem is the queue will continually make conveys even when you don't need them and when u are not constructing ships it used all the construction points to do so. this also causes the goods needs to construct then more expensive. This happening also too the AI making everyone poorer and goods prices for mostly wood high all the time.
There is a pause bottom for ships but it only works when u are constructing a ship making the only to pause convey construction is to make a ship allocate all recourses to ship construction and then pause construction. This save me over 150k in my recent game. This also raises a problem as the amount of convey u need is very strategic as it depends on how far u plan to send troops in the future a decision i don't think the Ai can make on its own.
I think there are three things that can fix these problems.
- Make manually building conveys possible
- Make pause and auto building them both possible.
- Ad a convey limit depending on shipyard size. The fact that u can build unlimited conveys is silly.