Really looking forward to more! After I finish my current USA game, I will probably move on to play a European Power, so I am looking forward to reading your progress.
BTW, how many games of Vic2 have you played before embarking on this game?
What the heck?! Flat taxes? Terrible. Soak the rich.
Soak them!
What I've found in my games is that capitalists are pretty stupid at the beginning of the game about building factories. If you can get State Capitalism and "seed" some factories, the Capitalist AI seems to work much better later in the game. It's like they need a kick in the rear to get going. I've seen similar complaints about this on the Paradox forums. Once you've built "some" factories, you should be able to switch back to Interventionism. In my USA game, my ruling party for the past 50 or so years has been Laissez Faire, which means I don't worry about production beyond the odd National Focus here and there. My caps do a good job now; I'm third in Industry, rapidly catching up to France and should pass her within the next decade. No way to catch the damn Brits though unless something major happens to them.
I have that problem as well. I think (total supposition on my part) that your infrastructure has something to do with with shortages. Build more and better railroads and that seems to happen quite a bit less. Also, factory input techs will help as well. For second stage industries, output techs will make pre-requisite goods available downstream more quickly too.
I think.
But by buying from the stockpile I believe you get the goods at "cost", so they are cheaper (no tariffs involved). However, it makes building things (like armies, ships, forts, etc.) take longer (more demand for the resources). Again, this is based wholly on my experiences, so take that as you will. The economic portion of the game is pretty deep and very hard to understand how it all fits together, for me at least.
I hope there's still an option to start before 1861.
I think they mean an *added* start date. There's no reason to cut out all earlier starts.
Haven't forgotten about this - my desktop is out of commission until I get my video card back from Sapphire, and this game is pokey as hell on my laptop. Even if no one's reading it, I have fun writing it. ;)
I'm reading, so you at least have an audience of one Sorry to hear about your video card. I'm looking forward to the next Austrian update.
Also, good news on the update; some of the things mentioned sound pretty cool.
Nightmare wrote:Michael wrote:Haven't forgotten about this - my desktop is out of commission until I get my video card back from Sapphire, and this game is pokey as hell on my laptop. Even if no one's reading it, I have fun writing it. ;)
I'm reading, so you at least have an audience of one Sorry to hear about your video card. I'm looking forward to the next Austrian update.
Also, good news on the update; some of the things mentioned sound pretty cool.
Thanks, I appreciated your comments earlier in the thread. I've been reading more AARs in the Paradox Forums - there are some really good ones.
Indeed there are. There was one about Siam (this) getting to be #3 by 1936 that inspired me to get off my butt and figure this game out.
That's a good find. I downloaded it and will try it out in my next game.
Poking through the mods forum yielded the Vic2 Advisor, which is a neat little program. It analyzes your save game file and points out any "duh" type things that you might be missing. (Having a mobilized military while not at war, unused National Focus points, etc.) Kinda handy, especially to someone that might be new to the game and doesn't have someone looking over their shoulder correcting obvious mistakes.
edit: the board's tags don't seem to like the url. Here it is in plain text:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...(a.k.a.-Lint)
This is a great tool.
Thank you for writing this up Michael. You inspired me to get the Paradox pack during the steam sale and now I'm trying to make Japan into the world power it was meant to be, only a year in but already rolling up Korea.
Despite the slowness, I started a game with Sweden on my laptop. It's a fun, non-combative country to play. I've gotten the government completely liberalized and have been riding an 80% literacy rate most of the game. Things are humming right along in the early 1850s.
Best of all, I'm now starting to understand how the Sphere of Influence system works. Sweden starts just outside Great Power status, and once I was in I was able to get Denmark in my sphere. Now I'm going piecemeal after some of Prussia's other countries. There's also an option for unifying Scandinavia, so that should be a fun goal. :D
It is!
1.4 beta patch released (on 8\25).
Long patch notes, too long to post here.
Ooo, nice and meaty. I especially like:
- Industrial score is now based on profitability and people working in it.
- Added new entry to the outliner, about the provinces being occupied by rebels.
- Any_greater_power effect now affects all great powers, not just the first.
- Clergy promotion changes
Quick question from a casual (ie not very good) player.
How the heck do I....
1. Get investors to put money into anything but railway infrastructure ? I've tried setting national focus, reducing taxes on the rich, but all they want to do is build flipping railways, so I end up trying to wait until the entire country is at one level before researching the next one. And I'd really like them to invest in some factories to save me doing it.
2. Change my mode of government - I'm currently stuck at presidential dictatorship at the moment.
Sorry, some info - I'm playing as Argentina, it's 1885 and South America is pretty much as was, apart from Uruguay having loads of revolutions and the French creating a little colony for themselves by nipping the top off Chile around the Potosi area, which is full of silver.
On the good side, I'm proving to be both frugal and benevolant...taxes are not high, we're making loads of money and have a fully funded education system, so literacy is at a whopping 45%.
Edit - having looked at that screenshot of Michael's Austria, I'd like to amend 'making loads of money' to 'making loads of money for a South American country' - I'm at +49 per month. I would like to add that I've moved our ranking from 59th at the start to 36th now, though. And we got railways all the way down to the Cape
I think from my limited experience that the investors really really want to raise infrastructure before investing in factories. But that's not based on a whole lot of experience.
I *will* get back to this game.
Finished my Argentina game with a final rank of 22nd..the final decade saw a massive industrial expansion powered by our investors (finally), although I never did get away from an enlightened presidential dictatorship. In political terms the world seemed very much like it did 100 years previously, as neither Italy nor Germany unified - the only significant differences seemed to be that the USA was dismembering Mexico and China had taken much of SE Asia.
Time for another game, I think.
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