

A few days into the game you'll get the taxes popup. Instead of gaining manpower every month, your taxes will provide you with manpower every year. That's not a bug.ĭon't worry about your manpower having a -1000% base value modifier. A few countries start out with 0 merchants. How many merchants you have depends in large part on how many centers of trade you have (which you get by having a big commercial industry in a province). You can start playing from the first day onwards. In past MEIOU & Taxes versions you were supposed to not do anything and let the game run for 1-2 years before you start playing. Other than having 16 gig of ram (failing that, at least 8) and having a CPU with good single-core performance, you can't do a lot about this. The rest of the game runs reasonably smoothly. Loading the game is going to take a long time, just like the January 1 calculations each year are going to take a long time. I recommend starting off by reading the beginner's guide.
