How To Earn Money With The Economy Missions In Europa Universalis 5

There’s plenty you’ll need to take into consideration when you take up the helm as ruler of a brand-new country in Europa Universalis 5, but one of the primary functions of any government is always going to have to be based around the earning and distribution of wealth.

If you’re looking for some money-centric goals for your new nation in this grand strategy title, there are four major sections of the Economy Mission Tree in Europa Universalis 5 to check out. Each one will guide you through ensuring that your new country is set up for success throughout the centuries.

Economy Mission Trees

When you first begin a new game of Europa Universalis 5, the game asks you to choose from one of three mission trees to give you an aim for your country. These trees are Economy, Expansion, and Politics, and while they’re similarly dense in terms of content involved, you’ll need to choose one to begin with, since a country can only pursue one mission tree at a time.

If you’re interested in starting off with a strong grasp of your Markets and Banking to increase the amount of Ducats and Crown Power in your country, consider the Economy mission tree. It’s got four individual missions (technically) to choose from:

1. Develop A Capital Economy *
2. Infrastructure Efforts
3. The Development Of Trade
4. Traditional Economy

Unlike other policy mission trees in this impressively dense grand strategy game, the Economy missions in Europa Universalis 5 have noticeable rewards for completion, which we’ll detail in the individual sections for mission breakdowns below.

It might help further your progress on other branches if you begin with either Infrastructure Efforts or Develop a Capital Economy to gain various boosts. Infrastructure will grant extra Administrative, Diplomatic, and Military Ability early into your reign, while the Capital Economy mission offers Profit Dividends for extra Ducats to provide a healthier start to your new country.

While there’s technically no correct order in which to start the Economy missions, we recommend you save The Development of Trade for last, since you’ll have a few extra starting criteria to meet when you first begin a new save.

How To Complete “Develop A Capital Economy”

This section of the Economy mission tree in Europa Universalis 5 is focused on introducing you to several ways to make more money in the game. You’ll need to set your country up to create “capital through production, trade, or loans” to succeed here, and the game uses this as an intro to basic moneymaking in the game, providing a tutorial on the thick of the Economy.

The bulk of Trade is done in Markets, a series of cities that belong to known Markets across the world. All countries are part of larger Markets and can buy and sell from one another here for Pop Needs, Buildings, and Construction. It’s important to have good Market Access for every Location, which can be improved by building roads from your settlements to the location of the Market.

Your first task will be to grant privileges to your Burghers in your country, your artisans and vendors, to increase their Estate Satisfaction to 60 percent. You’ll also need to establish a trade by exploring the Markets tab to begin the import and export process. These tasks both take zero days to complete, as their effects are instantaneous.

After this is all set, you’ll then need to gain new Burghers in the location with the Market, which can be done by making new Buildings for them as needed. Next is a period where you’ll need to weather economic situations for one year, for the Embrace the Capital Economy step.

Select Manufactory Focus Or Trade Focus

Following, you’ll need to choose a focus for your economy, whether it’s Manufactory Focus to work more on goods production (which requires 100 percent control over the area in which you built your Market), or Trade Focus to look more at your trade network instead (that requires five Trade Capacity at your starting Market).

Steps for the Manufactory Focus include:

• Expand Construction Materials: Have an output of 40 Clay, Lumber, Sand, or Stone at one of your Locations, or fully expand RGO.
  • Import Construction Materials: Alternately, you could opt to import the aforementioned materials instead.
• Flow of Construction Goods: The city that houses your chosen Market has a Trade Surplus of 5 Clay, Lumber, Sand, or Stone.
• Gain Production Goods: You’ve got a way to make a specified good, and the place that makes it has a full supply of goods to get started.
• Construct the Manufactories: Either upgrade your existing good-producing building from the Gain Production Goods step, or build a second one.
• Export: Export the specified good in the Market chosen earlier in this Mission Branch, and turn a profit on it.
  • Satisfy our Demands: The Pops in your production location do not have an outstanding demand for said good.
• Creation of Profit: Export the aforementioned good in your specified Market location, and turn a profit of more than one Gold on its sale.

Steps for the Trade Focus instead include:

• Expanded Trade Capacities: Gain ten additional Trade Capacity in the Market for this mission.
• Influential Merchants: Gain ten additional Trade Advantages in the Market for this mission.
• Art of Export and Luxuries for the People: Have four exports and four imports, respectively, turn a profit in the Market for this mission.
• The Wealth of the Market: Improve the income created from trading at your main Market.
• Expand Into New Markets: Send Merchants from your Markets to at least two other Markets.
• The Rich Merchant: Add at least eight extra Gold to your income from trade alone.

How To Complete “Infrastructure Efforts”

Ready to start building up your capital region? You’ll need to own at least two territories to begin this section of the Economy Mission Tree, which ought to be easy if you’re starting with one of the game’s suggested Economy countries. Unlike the previous goal, you’ll only have one branch to work on here, but you can still replay the mission every 25 years.

Your first goal here is to build up your capital city by way of ordering the construction of more buildings – four new buildings, to be more precise. These can be just about anything, but keep an eye on your population and their needs, since these will often inform which buildings you’d be best off building with your relatively limited early Ducats.

Next, you’ll see four goals of the same tier:

1. Assembly Halls: Build a Royal Court or a Republican Assembly in your capital city.
2. Capital Prosperity: Improve the Prosperity of your capital region by at least 20 percent.
3. Wave of Urbanization: Have an employment rate of 75 percent, and a certain population of Burghers, as well as Nobles with specific Culture and Religion.
4. Control Around the Capital: Regions around the one that houses your capital are all at 100 percent Control.

Most of the branches of this mission end there, but the Control Around the Capital mission continues on below with the following missions.

1. Push for Centralization: Have more than 0.2 Monthly Progress toward Centralization as a policy.
   1. Control the Region: Improve your Control in the Region housing your capital by at least three percent.
2. Food Investments: Secure at least 65 additional Food for the capital’s province.
3. All Roads Lead to (Your Capital): Ensure each Region touching the one housing your capital has the best-quality road linking to your capital.

This is likely to take a few generations of rule to complete, so your newest leader will certainly appreciate a boost to their abilities so early on!

How To Complete “The Development Of Trade”

This mission in the Economy Mission Tree of Europa Universalis 5 is going to require a bit more work before you can properly begin, since you’ll need to not only have embraced Banking, but also rule two critical locations: a coastal port, and an urban location that isn’t your capital.

Banking is one of the game’s Institutions that has a fixed chance to appear in specific Locations, so keep your eye out for it and ensure it spreads to your country so that your people can adopt it. You’ll have Embraced it when the location has fully accepted the Institution. As such, this may take a while before it becomes available, but if you’re playing in an Economy-focused country, you’ll likely encounter it sooner than later.

Once you begin, you’ll have several simultaneous steps of The Development of Trade to work on:

1. Establish Wharfs: Build a Wharf building at one of your Ports, and staff it entirely.
   1. Coastal Expansion: Once you’ve built your Wharf, build a Dock or Dry Dock as well, and staff it entirely.
2. The Marketplace: Build a new Market building someplace in your country, and staff it entirely.
   1. Entrepôts: Build a new Entrepôt, and staff it entirely.
   2. Establish a Market Center: No matter which Market Center your capital falls into, you’ll need to own the Market Center for this goal.

Finally, you’ll be dealing quite a lot with the Burgher class in the final branch of this mission. The first section is Burgher Relations, tasking you with boosting the Satisfaction of the Burghers by five percent before you can begin the missions below that involve them more heavily.

1. Powerful Burghers: Grant the Burghers’ Estate either ten percent more Estate Power, or give them two additional Privileges.
2. Protect Our Coasts: Build either a Coastal Fort or Naval Battery building in one of your coastal areas, and staff it entirely.
   1. Martime Presence: In the sea zone with the highest Maritime Presence, increase your Presence by 15 percent.
3. A Merchant Fleet: Have at least five percent bigger a Naval Size than expected of a country your size, or build four additional Light Ships to add to your fleet.
   1. Trade Capacity: Boost the Trade Capacity of the Market in your capital by at least five.

How To Complete “Traditional Economy”

From there, you’ll have a couple single-goal missions, as well as one that bleeds into your final section, which we’ll elaborate on just below those that are more straightforward.

1. Expand Irrigation: Construct an Irrigation building in the location chosen for your mission, and have a positive Prosperity score.
   1. Construct Masons: Construct a Mason building in the same location as well, and also have a positive Prosperity score.
2. Road to (Your Capital): Wherever you’ve chosen to take on this mission outside your capital, you’ll need to have a road that connects to said capital for smoother trading.
3. Support Fishing Villages: The chosen location has a new Fishing Village building constructed that produces positive Prosperity.

The final major branch of the Traditional Economy tree spreads out quite a bit past the first step, Village Marketplaces. It’s fairly simple to finish in itself, asking on that you build a Market Village in the chosen location and see it have a positive Prosperity, but you’ll unlock four additional tasks once you’ve done so.

These tasks are:

1. Expand Resource Production: The RGO in your chosen location must be fully expanded.
2. Embrace the Traditional Economy: Wait an entire calendar year to endure situations related to your economic choices.
3. Expand the Workforce: Add 1,000 new workers to the workforce in the location chosen for the mission.
4. Support Rural Cloth: Build a Rural Clothmaker building in the chosen location, and bring it to positive Prosperity.

The last element of the Traditional Economy branch of the Economy Mission Tree in Europa Universalis 5 is called Prosperous Production, but you’ll need to finish three missions from separate branches of the tree before it’s available. Finish the Construct Masons mission from the Irrigation branch, as well as the Expand Resource Production and Embrace the Traditional Economy missions above. Your goal here is to have a new building in your mission location, so it’s fairly simple to achieve to finish out the tree.