Title really.

Been spamming the ottomans to learn. I managed to complete almost all of the missions by 1600. I owned all of the Balkans as well as part of Austria, and all of Arabia and most of North Africa. At this point I was making around 100 ducats per month from tax, 50 from production and 50 from trade I think. I remember reading that tax is the weakest source of income and you can get a lot more from trade and production but I just wasn't seeing it. I'd invested thousands of gold into manufactories, workshops and markets too.

I put markets on all of my centres of trade and had 97% of the constantinople node, 85% of aleppo after integrating Syria, 55% of Alexandria and 35% of Basra. As for the workshops/manufactories, I tried to target high value goods like silk, spices and coffee. I avoided increasing the production in my provinces in the Ragusa trade node where I had 0 trade power as it just seemed to be making Venice richer.

In the end I was getting a little bored of my campaign so I took out probably about 40k loans to invest into buildings to try to see how far I could push my economy but I only earned around 30 more ducats per month from production.