Alex Gilbert
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Joined: 9/20/2002 From: New York City Status: offline
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I believe mullinFOAD has it right. Think of the textiles number you set your provinces to as the maximum capacity for that province assuming you have enough raw material. However, you have to have the cotton and wool already made and in hand to actually make the textile. So if you have 60 wool (already in hand) then you should be able to produce 15 textiles. I have only played Britain and France thus far, but for those countries, my textile capacity is never limiting, it is always the wool/cotton supply that does me in. The negative number for cotton (or wool) I believe means how much you will have next turn relative to what you have now. Suppose you have 60 wool, can make 12 textile, and are producing 40 wool. You will use 48 wool to make the 12 textile, leaving 12 wool remaining, and then you will make 40 wool-- giving a total of 52 for next turn. What you should see is -8 for your country total under wool, because you had 60 to start this turn, and will have only 52 to start next turn. I have also found my current turn cotton supply to be 0 and the country total listed as changing to -1. I belive this is due to feudal demand. I am not sure what penalty, if any, is assigned due to the fact that I do not have enough cotton to meet this feudal demand.
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