Like for this game of EU2 we have compiled the lsit of casualties for a war lasting from 1488-1500 as being 4,400,000 causalties costing 58,000 ducates.
So I wanna know is assuming inflation what would it be worth today in US dollars?
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
Doing very rough estimations on the value of gold, it seems to be close on $2,000,000,000,000. This is very rough. It wouldn't surprise me if I was off by several orders of magnitude.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
If it might be off by an OoM, why bother posting an "answer" at all?
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Dude, you have to bear in mind that
a) EU2 casualties bear absolutely no resemblance to real-world ones for the time period. You can divide by ten to get reasonable armies, but this doesn't apply to the casualties, because the soldiers in EU2 die like flies.
b) EU2 ducats bear absolutely no resemblance to the real-world monetary unit of that name; they are a completely arbitrary internal unit given a historical-sounding name.
c) EU2 economics has only a rather vague resemblance to real-world ones; for example, there are money sources and sinks, instead of a reasonably fixed supply of currency.
d) EU2 recruiting bears basically zero resemblance to real-world recruiting, which relied way more heavily on mercenaries, and also the upkeep was vastly more expensive than the initial raising.
Bearing all that in mind, what you could do is this:
Figure the cost as a percentage of the state revenues for the period in question.
Set some kind of equivalence between your state and a historical one; an EU2 France should be reasonably similar to the OTL one, give or take some Italian conquests.
Look up the OTL revenues for the period; apply your percentage.
Figure the inflation. Voila, modern numbers!
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
and luckily I ahev a book that can do just that "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" from 1500-2000 by Paul Kennedy.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Oddly enough, that was the book I had in mind to get the statistics from. Great minds, and all that. Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
quote:Originally posted by King of Men: Oddly enough, that was the book I had in mind to get the statistics from. Great minds, and all that.
Great minds kill people. You know it's true. Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
As long as I'm not one of them, what do I care?
*Kills Reticulum with the power of his mind alone*
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
i read that book a few years ago and I found it a balanced unbiased work of economic literature going throough in detail why things happened in terms of economics. Im gonna have to dig it up for this.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
quote:Originally posted by King of Men: As long as I'm not one of them, what do I care?
*Kills Reticulum with the power of his mind alone*
*Makes convincing dying sounds*
*dies*
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Just kidding Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Oh ha ha ha. Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
rofl.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
quote:i read that book a few years ago and I found it a balanced unbiased work of economic literature going throough in detail why things happened in terms of economics.
*pauses for breath* Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
All i know about economics (or anything for that matter) : It's all about the balance.
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