So I'm in the process of trying to rationalize the governments of portugal and spain in game 8. Much of what richard tells me makes perfect sense, but he keeps coming up that I need to devalue a currency at a cost of more than 50M pounds (or alternatively I can just destroy the economy of portugal if I prefer!). I've suggested just leaving both currencies in circulation and making them both legal tender and he says ok, and then he tells me this again (that I need to pay a ton to rationalize the currencies).
Unless I'm really mistaken, the value of the integration from a gameplay standpoint isn't even 1/10th the cost he's proposing, so game balance wise it seems all out of whack, and I'd think I could just define one currency as fixed relation to the other (ie one is 2x the value of the other), and stop minting one and mint more of the other and just let time take its course, but he hit me with a >5M a year cost do do this for 10 years.
Does anybody else have experience with this? someone who dealt with the acts of union or another person who had a similar issue?
The costs I keep getting quoted no matter what I propose seem so ludicrous I'm wondering what I'm not getting?
It's a bit frustrating because I just don't get why it needs to cost so much to do an economic union.
Any insight welcome, or you can just laugh at my travails.