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So this appears to be on sale at the minute, and I've been looking for something to replace Imperialism (1997). Is it going to scratch the same itch in setting up a complex resource chain and bootstrapping an industrial revolution, or is it more about juggling market prices? Is gunning for autarky possible/have a point? I enjoy EUIV and Stellaris, so I may end up sinking an unreasonable amount of time in if it clicks, but I want to know if it will click.
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Agean90 posted:all of the above tbh. you make buildings that produce raw materials and goods in your market that then affect the base price for the good based on supply vs demand to determine cost when used by either your population (which is simulated in far more detail than Imperialism). Autarky is possible, but will involve either playing as an already massive country and even then you usually lack something or don't have enough of it and must then either trade for it or take over land that has it. StashAugustine posted:Yeah it's definitely more supply chain with market economics attached than vice versa gently caress it, sounds fun. Don't quite have the minimum graphics specs, but gonna try my hand at turning south and central america into la Unión Soviética Primo
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May 17, 2023 19:35
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24 hours deep since Wednesday evening, so gonna say it's a good purchase. One question - building either seems extremely slow or extremely expensive - should I focus on building up iron, coal, steel, etc and start domestically producing stuff I have shortages of, or is it more important to replace all the subsistence farms with better agriculture ASAP?
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May 20, 2023 09:59
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ilitarist posted:You should think of subsistence farms as your worker pool. They're better than unemployed but they basically don't contribute to the economy. Alright, cheers! Settled in to playing as Colombia, so there's plenty of iron, coal, and timber knocking about, but not starting off with much (or anything) - agriculture can be the private sector's problem until I invent communism
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May 20, 2023 11:03
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ilitarist posted:Ah yes, another issue with agriculture is that it will be owned by aristocrats, they get more money and power and then they'll block any law change because they like Feudalism. True, but a brief civil war to gently caress off slavery and then the landowner's power goes way down. The Church is a far bigger problem. But we'll see how far I get before the patch!
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May 20, 2023 11:31
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Can only 20 construction be added to a given building a week, or is that a limit that can be raised by pops/infrastructure/what have you? Also gently caress Venezuela, occupied 100% of their provinces in a war to puppet them and then they found an extra point of prestige somewhere, went back up to minor power, and then capitulated without becoming my puppet because that was no longer a valid war goal.
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May 20, 2023 16:00
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Has the update made things slower for anyone else? My graphics are slightly below minimum recommended (intel 620 instead of 630), but it played fine before the patch, now even after turning the graphics way the gently caress down I've had to force quit like 3 times. Is my laptop just having a bad day?
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May 22, 2023 18:32
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The beauty of history and politics is that for every unintuitive in-game edge case, something as stupid or stupider has absolutely happened in real life. Quick question while I wait for the performance issues update that's allegedly coming - is it better to build industry top down, by building factories and importing materials, or bottom up, by developing the mines etc first?
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May 24, 2023 07:31
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More or less what I was doing then, thanks! Now I just need the game to work.... gently caress it just gonna roll it back to 1.2, it worked ok-ish then
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May 24, 2023 16:47
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just a kazoo posted:How many updates until the criminal pop type becomes a thing??? Aristocrats and capitalists are already in the base game? 
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May 26, 2023 07:52
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Is there a reliable way to keep major powers the gently caress out of your diplomatic plays mid to late game? I try to annex a 2-province subject, and the next thing I know there is so much anachronistic slavic hard bass playing in the rainforest the loving Andes fall over
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May 26, 2023 19:39
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Asproigerosis posted:any pro tips for how to annex all these puppets I've accumulated, since I end up with all the radicals and turmoil scorched earth? Love being forced to annex peruvolivia because they loving refuse to build a single sulfur mine. Gotta be another diplomatic play and then a shitton of russians turn up afaik, been having the same issue Might restart and ramp up the military earlier idk
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May 27, 2023 11:45
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Asproigerosis posted:The issue for me is that I can annex no problem/perfidious outside great powers interfering, but the states just turn into dead weight with all the pops being radical and every state 50%+ turnoil. Might be a cultural mismatch, or restrictive laws/a lower standard of living? If not they're probably overrun with landowners and whatnot, so you might have to just do some deft population management
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May 27, 2023 15:01
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Asproigerosis posted:also wtf is my capitalists doing Art Apparently conspicuously funding artists is your country's form of rich guy dickwaving
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May 30, 2023 07:18
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Albino Squirrel posted:I'm trying to un-serf Serbia and I swear to loving God we need a 'guillotine all' button We just had the France DLC even!
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Jun 1, 2023 22:04
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Funky Valentine posted:Peru has a good-sized lead resource if you feel like taking on Peru-Bolivia. Yeah if you get Ecuador and Venezuela under your belt early you can do an easy transfer subject war provided none of the big boys jump in
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Jun 15, 2023 06:42
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Ithle01 posted:That ended up being the route I went, but did it late. If I want to do Grander Columbia I gotta get moving on conquest earlier it looks like because there are a lot of tiny South American provinces and Austria-Hungary and USA want to fight for each one. Do you need to grab British/dutch/french guyana for those? Because that might be a job
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Jun 15, 2023 11:38
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:you do, also the maldives iirc Those are near India, did you mean the Malvinas/Falklands? e: gently caress it I'll grab the maldives too Ichabod Sexbeast fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jun 15, 2023 |
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Jun 15, 2023 17:40
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Fister Roboto posted:up to 3,387 at wealth 60 They're up against the limit of what they can physically fit inside them, do they loving bathe in it or something? Fill the swimming pool with a new vintage every month?
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Jun 22, 2023 18:42
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CrypticTriptych posted:I think this is supposed to be handled by the "quality is quantity" abstraction and they're not consuming 200 times more wine, but 200 times worth of wine. Quite possibly, but the mental image that came from this is "They say liquids can't be compressed but we'll loving show them!"
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Jun 22, 2023 23:12
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:it'd be nice for some sort of way to track dependent changes over time, since I really need to be able to see how many men I permanently crippled to get the full enjoyment from my puppetmaster playthroughs Do you pay to give them a decent pension, or take a radicalism hit from turfing them onto the street?
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Aug 17, 2023 23:08
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EwokEntourage posted:Yea, if the convoy numbers were accurate you could easily build a land bridge between England and continental Europe with the number of sunken ships in the English channel. The dead are good comrades, they vote for the workers party  e: also the best thing about the panama canal is playing as Colombia and having Britain pay you £silly a month to let them build it
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Aug 24, 2023 22:45
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TTBF posted:Turtle Island? I'm not familiar with that one. What country would form that? I think it's an indiginous term for North America
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Nov 9, 2023 17:24
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Could I hypothetically set up a dictatorship of the proletariat while telling the bourgeoisie to pound sand? Would that crash my economy and/or set me up to lose a civil war? If you have the tech to pass the laws and enough proletarians to support you, sure, but other major imperialist powers may not appreciate the advent of glorious socialism iirc
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Nov 21, 2023 16:14
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RabidWeasel posted:It's worth noting that if a country's power status goes up so that they're equal to you while you're in the middle of a play against them to make them into a subject, it breaks the wargoal (which is very annoying) Do you still have to go protectorate -> vassal -> puppet in 3 seperate plays, or was I missing something the last time I played?
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Mar 23, 2024 19:57
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RabidWeasel posted:They usually do accept anyway if you're significantly stronger than them Yeah, but the truce timer is very annoying
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Mar 23, 2024 21:02
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Bloody splitters
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Dirk the Average posted:I know that a lot of expenses scale with the size of the economy to make the decision impactful, but it's silly when some expenses aren't capped. Right now I'm spending 273,400 pounds per week on an expedition. I'm not quite sure what they're spending all that money on, but the forts they build had better be built out of solid gold bricks. Listen, it was a really big bear, and
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