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There should be a government type that gets legitimacy for not including the head of state.
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Pakled posted:Conquering oil, rubber, and opium-producing states when your homeland doesn't produce those things natively (or doesn't produce enough) has a definite positive impact on your economy no matter where you are in the timeline At the very least I'd like my capitalists to build up oil and rubber industries in friendly countries.
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Apr 29, 2023 04:11
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Is there a good guide for industrialisation as a small country without a lot of natural resources? I know you need to leech of a bigger market but I think it's gotten harder this patch - as Uruguay in the US sphere I go bankrupt basically as soon as I build another construction sector, but without one industrialisation is just too slow.
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Apr 29, 2023 07:45
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:At the very least I'd like my capitalists to build up oil and rubber industries in friendly countries. I think foreign investment is planned to be added so hopefully that helps some.
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Apr 29, 2023 07:49
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Pakled posted:Conquering oil, rubber, and opium-producing states when your homeland doesn't produce those things natively (or doesn't produce enough) has a definite positive impact on your economy no matter where you are in the timeline Right, conquering oil or rubber still makes sense, but after the early game this means starting the world war and it's hardly worth it. Which is fine from the narrative point of view, but it doesn't make for a compelling strategic gameplay.
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Apr 29, 2023 09:32
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i got the Empire Under The Pun achievement! Yay! It was a pain in the rear end. Picked up a few more of the Hard achievements but they’re all pretty much the same. I think the most interesting of them was Healthy Man of Europe. I still haven’t played any of the European powers so I may try Austria or something next? The coming DLC seems very France focused so I’ll probably wait until that comes out to try and bring La Belle Époque to the whole of Europe.
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Apr 29, 2023 23:34
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MinistryofLard posted:Is there a good guide for industrialisation as a small country without a lot of natural resources? I know you need to leech of a bigger market but I think it's gotten harder this patch - as Uruguay in the US sphere I go bankrupt basically as soon as I build another construction sector, but without one industrialisation is just too slow. imo you're way better off trying to just expand when you're that small or need resources. Build up a vassal ball and then use their tribute to fund your seed construction sectors on top of joining a market Gato The Elder posted:i got the Empire Under The Pun achievement! Yay! It was a pain in the rear end. try some flavor pack workshop stuff if you play austria, they're kind of bland as the big white blob
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Apr 30, 2023 00:47
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Havent played since around launch, any DLC or anything big and interesting since then?
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Apr 30, 2023 01:39
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MinistryofLard posted:Is there a good guide for industrialisation as a small country without a lot of natural resources? I know you need to leech of a bigger market but I think it's gotten harder this patch - as Uruguay in the US sphere I go bankrupt basically as soon as I build another construction sector, but without one industrialisation is just too slow. Play any other country. Seriously, you don't have the resources OR the population to industrialize at a reasonable pace. If it was one or the other it might be fine, but not both.
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Apr 30, 2023 01:43
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Gort posted:What's optimal as the UK? Day one, annex the East India Company? Day One is annex Texas and New York. Use Texas as a staging ground to take the American Southwest/West. Taking the North American oil provinces is a lot less internationally provocative when they're Mexican vs. mid/lategame when they're American. Plus early game no other great power (except maybe France) has an interest in the regions, so you have a free hand.
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Apr 30, 2023 02:25
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Fister Roboto posted:Play any other country. Seriously, you don't have the resources OR the population to industrialize at a reasonable pace. If it was one or the other it might be fine, but not both. I think Victoria is an outlier among Paradox games where there are just some countries you can't really play.
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Apr 30, 2023 03:36
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Fister Roboto posted:Play any other country. Seriously, you don't have the resources OR the population to industrialize at a reasonable pace. If it was one or the other it might be fine, but not both. drat that's a shame - making Uruguay into a great power has always been my go-to in Vicky since 1. Funky Valentine posted:I think Victoria is an outlier among Paradox games where there are just some countries you can't really play. I'm getting that vibe, I think it's a current patch issue - I managed to do it successfully on the previous patch but somehow private construction sucking up half your build points so you're too slow to industrialise off the ground or it's just become more expensive or what.
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Apr 30, 2023 11:22
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The nerf to mass migrations means you can't reasonably just liberalise and get pop purely by existing, which makes a lot of small tags harder to play.
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Apr 30, 2023 13:09
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Is there any state more useless than Rhode Island?
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May 4, 2023 06:15
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FPyat posted:Is there any state more useless than Rhode Island? Put your faith in Providence because it has nothing else going for it
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May 4, 2023 06:22
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Did they fix that thing where war fronts splintered into a 1000 parts yet?
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May 4, 2023 06:28
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Nektu posted:Did they fix that thing where war fronts splintered into a 1000 parts yet? no
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May 4, 2023 06:28
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The US really has some bad states. DC is already fully employed at game start so you can't even expand your admin buildings there. In practice I end up treating NY or PA as the capital because they actually have people Also, welcome back radia 
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May 4, 2023 08:19
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So I see that Columbia District can form the Free States of America in addition to Canada. Has anyone tried forming Canada then the FSA? Is such a thing doable/feasible?
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May 4, 2023 11:16
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Almost done with the Hegemon chieve and should be able to puppet China after the next truce. But man, the last 35 years are an absolute slog, performance and mechanics wise. I'll post my whole thoughts when I'm done.
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May 4, 2023 14:48
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New DD: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/victoria-3-dev-diary-84-french-content.1580973/ Coups and lots about france
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May 4, 2023 15:13
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I like the general thrust of it but some of these journal entries are a bit too basic for me. The monarchist split is a case in point - it seems as if you get your preferred house in power for 10 years, press a button, and hey presto you’ve got Napoleon in charge. That’s a dramatic simplification of the events in real-life, and it seems particularly odd to have a DLC featuring coups and Napoleon III and not connect them in any way.
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May 4, 2023 16:03
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Nektu posted:Did they fix that thing where war fronts splintered into a 1000 parts yet? a little bit, its only 450 parts now Yvonmukluk posted:So I see that Columbia District can form the Free States of America in addition to Canada. Has anyone tried forming Canada then the FSA? Is such a thing doable/feasible? it should be both doable and feasible if they're different title ranks and going canada doesnt lock you out of FSA (which I half suspect it would)
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Do we have a Multiplayer thread? My Megacampaign which is in the late 1700s in EU4 is converting soon to Victoria 3 and we're recruiting! We need a player for Byzantium. Potentially China. Potentially Japan. Idk maybe France? Various Colonial nations/dominions. Here's a preview WIP conversion map. Not truly reflective of current borders, many of the "decentralized" nations won't be, etc. Population will likely be redistributed based on EU4 Development etc. The World:  Close up of Europe:  Close up of Asia:  Currently played nations: Novgorod. Kiev. Bohemia. Croatia. W76 (Iberia). W82 (Algeria). England. Friesland. Papal States. India. I'm Novgorod and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING OR HOW TO PLAY!!! If anyone has any advice on how to play Russia But Without Ukraine/Southern Russia I'm all ears. I see Manchuria seems to have a lot of iron/coal; I see Lead here and there, and lots of wood/logging camps; but not sure what sort of technology or government reforms/laws I should be prioritizing. Mongolia, all of the Norse Mythology themed countries, and Moria are all my vassals; and some of the Baltic. Most aren't populated so not sure how valuable they are or which ones I should be trying to annex asap or if I should be focusing on increasing my income first. Most of my states seem hilariously underdeveloped, might just be a bad converter result, but I assume I want to expand my mines? That -80k/week is because of the vanilla chinese population I currently own using a massive amount of tax capacity and having massive barracks I can't really afford right now? Byzantium is probably the most important slot we're trying to fill. It shows up decentralized but that will be fixed, they're right now one of the top four great powers in EU.
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Star posted:New DD: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/victoria-3-dev-diary-84-french-content.1580973/ looks like extremely good fluff! For certain fun in the players hands, but I wonder how effective the AI will be with it, and if they'll sometime choose one path over the other pro-actively.
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May 4, 2023 17:06
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3973361 is the closest thing but this/other pdox game threads def have more traffic. Could try the linked mapgoons discord for a wider reach
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It's all fun but it's a strange focus. I understand that a lot of people play France, but this is a country that has a lot of options already, probably more than anyone else. GB is stronger but it doesn't have as many people. I've just played France with the current patch and it felt quite aimless. I achieved egalitarian society objective (yeah, as France, I am a true hardcore gamer) and it feels like you have all the tools of the game with very few constraints. I'm not talking about difficulty but about the fact that the country with the most possibilities gets even more. But maybe it's balanced by the challenges like Paris Commune.
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May 4, 2023 18:51
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Egalitarian Society sure seems easy compared to Hegemony, which requires you to conquer half the world. I shamefully couldn't manage it as Prussia.
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May 4, 2023 18:57
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ilitarist posted:It's all fun but it's a strange focus. I understand that a lot of people play France, but this is a country that has a lot of options already, probably more than anyone else. GB is stronger but it doesn't have as many people. I've just played France with the current patch and it felt quite aimless. I achieved egalitarian society objective (yeah, as France, I am a true hardcore gamer) and it feels like you have all the tools of the game with very few constraints. I'm not talking about difficulty but about the fact that the country with the most possibilities gets even more. France is also a natural focus if you want to deal with revolutions..
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Nektu posted:Did they fix that thing where war fronts splintered into a 1000 parts yet? The optimal solution is treating bodies of water like regular land provinces. you'll have the occasional forts shooting each other inside of the ocean, but that's the price you have to pay
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May 4, 2023 19:27
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Egalitarian Society sure seems easy compared to Hegemony, which requires you to conquer half the world. I shamefully couldn't manage it as Prussia. Only half the world's population! I haven't gotten it either yet, but by 1900 you should be primed to grab the parts of China, India and Indonesia you'd need. Combined with your own nation's pop growth, ofc. e: that's right, confidently talking about a cheevo i dont even have.
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Yeah, I completed Economic Domination, then Egalitarian Society and thought I'll finish with the tutorial tasks by going Hegemony... And then I didn't. It doesn't help that your tasks are like have some munitions factories and decent army, and now suddenly conquer half of the world's population.
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May 4, 2023 19:49
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Egalitarian Society sure seems easy compared to Hegemony, which requires you to conquer half the world. I shamefully couldn't manage it as Prussia. Hegemony is real easy, you just have to puppet or dominion them, which means the play becomes liberating and then puppetting nations. Breaking countries by cutting the capital off from the rest of the market is very strong. Nations like America are easily puppeted for example, but Britain needs you to take their subjects.
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ilitarist posted:I'm not talking about difficulty but about the fact that the country with the most possibilities gets even more. Completely unfounded guessing but I wonder if they’re just looking at analytics and seeing which counties get the most play and start with those for flavor packs. With the sort of rocky game launch in mind, maybe they were playing it safe with a popular country getting DLC and holding off lesser played, non western countries (which I’d love, incidentally)
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Hegemony is almost certainly easiest as the UK. You already have India, just get swole enough to handle Pariah status and start devouring China. That's how I did it anyways. Definitely the hardest of the 4 paths though. I'm usually a pretty peaceful guy in Paradox games, this play style felt kinda uncomfortable.
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yeah hegemony isnt too too difficult if you're already doing a pariah run, you just need to blob hard enough to be able to puppet china+russia and yoink india away from the brits
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Holy poo poo I ate Australia as Britain in 1906 and the AI had built NOTHING. Like 2 lumber camps in the whole continent. No oil rigs. No urban development at all. And they're part of the British market! All this poo poo is being demanded!
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Weird bug: I thought I'd try reunifiying Canada as the Columbia District with an eye to trying to form the Free States of America later and for three games in a row Upper Canada decides to commit national suicide by independence war. Within a few months of game start. That doesn't seem normal.
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Higher strata pops should radicalize when lower strata pops SoL increases. EDIT: actually if you make it so pops radicalize for SoL increases in strata both higher and lower than theirs it may turbocharge the fascists in later-game capitalist empires that are attempting to re-develop the core (more jobs for lower strata and more profits for upper strata = resentful middle strata). stumblebum fucked around with this message at 17:16 on May 5, 2023 |
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:a little bit, its only 450 parts now I mean, while you get the event to reunite canada, you don't technically become Canada Canada until you press the form country button. So while that seems to be mutually exclusive, given that all of Canada counts as a homeland for Anglo-Canadians there's nothing stopping you from confederating Canada and then just going south, near as I can tell. As logn as you are good enough at the game, that is. (spoiler alert: I am not that good at the game).
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