Economy Guide - Total War: Shogun 2

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Hey guys, I hope you find this tutorial helpful. Looking back, I have actually done tutorials on a lot of the important aspects of Shogun 2 so future videos will be mainly based on viewer requests. Be sure to leave a comment if you need help with an aspect of the game! Remember to like and subscribe if you enjoyed.
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[@kresnaoen4539]

Also fertile and very fertile soil contribute so much for food surplus, having high food surplus (10+) boost your town growth very high. For example 10 province with average 12 town growth equal permanent 120 koku bonus each turn. Therefore try to minimize tax level as possible to gain highest town growth

[@Zedagen]

Yep! There is actually a lot of things about growth I didn't mention in this video which I may in a future video. I focused more on the things that increased your income the instant you get it but appreciate the help!

[@yousircantknow8987]

Lower taxes all the way.
Build farms in every province.
Build 5 markets.
Spec every metsuke to oversee towns.
Build anything that affects town growth.
TOWN GROWTH and FOOD SURPLUS are all that MATTERS.

[@saunakroychowdhury5990]

Why lower taxes?

[@epicloffchris]

@@saunakroychowdhury5990Promote more town growth, I presume, increasing income in the long run

[@GoznerPeter]

@@saunakroychowdhury5990 i dont get it either

[@Volound]

upgrading farms is very cost ineffective, that should only ever be done for the food as a last resort

[@Zedagen]

Hey man! First of all, I’m a big fan! I’m actually very surprised by this since upgrading farms also gives huge growth bonuses if you can stack food and plus the multiplier from soil is very high in fertile soil provinces but if I was mistaken I apologize. Appreciate the feedback!

[@Volound]

@@Zedagen analyses like these always need to call back to the numbers, because its the time to expected return and the return ratios that actually determine what is good and what is bad. farms are intuitively a good investment (drawbackless return over the long term), but the initial outlay is a hell of a drawback and the opportunity cost of that koku being sunk into something that takes so long to pay for itself means its super bad. markets for example have a very low time to return the investment

[@Zedagen]

Volound I agree. This video was more to show all the options available to players if they want to improve economy but I may have gotten the priorities wrong. I did mention how I like to build many markets but I should’ve emphasized it more, and talk less about farms.

[@lolasdm6959]

Metsuke actually doubled Higo's income...

[@runnchillout]

Thanks bro 👍