Event
The Great Debasement
With recent troubles in the Flavor Rank, economic woes have begun to rise. Merchants are complaining about outrageous price differences in our internal markets, where a wide variety of local currencies are in use. Soldiers are upset about not receiving their payment in time. But if we were prepared to debase our Akçe silver coins, it might be possible to alleviate these woes by unifying the economy of the Flavor Rank, and increase the value of gold coins, which the state treasury still has in reserve.
OttomansCountrydynamic historical event.tagDefinitionin_game/events/DHE/flavor_TUR.txt:8048
8049type = country_event
8050title = flavor_tur.108.title The Great Debasement
8051desc = flavor_tur.108.desc With recent troubles in the Flavor Rank, economic woes have begun to rise. Merchants are complaining about outrageous price differences in our internal markets, where a wide variety of local currencies are in use. Soldiers are upset about not receiving their payment in time. But if we were prepared to debase our Akçe silver coins, it might be possible to alleviate these woes by unifying the economy of the Flavor Rank, and increase the value of gold coins, which the state treasury still has in reserve.
8052outcome = neutral
8054historical_info = flavor_tur.108.historical_info Its not entirely clear why, in 1585, the Ottomans chose to debase the Akçe. It might have been necessary due to the cost of long wars with Persia, or because of an influx of silver from the New World. Local economies in the empire were very disjointed from each other, and the debasement may have been an attempt to unify them and strengthen the value of gold coins in relation to silver, for the state treasury's benefit. In the end these efforts had mixed results, and the currency remained unstable for several decades.
8056fire_only_once = yes
8057dynamic_historical_event = {
}
8064trigger = {
8066any_market_present_in_country = {
8066count > 4
}
8068OR = {
8069AND = {
8070stability < 60
8071gold < {
8071value = monthly_income_trade_and_tax
8071multiply = 10
}
}
8073AND = {
8074stability < 80
8075monthly_balance < 10
8076gold < {
8076value = monthly_income_trade_and_tax
8076multiply = 10
}
8077num_loans > 0
}
8079AND = {
8080stability < 80
8081at_war = yes
8082gold < {
8082value = monthly_income_trade_and_tax
8082multiply = 10
}
}
}
}