Raenir Salazar posted:

Excited for which contentious real world economic theories/systems paradox ends up implicitly/accidently modeling as correct.

My money is on free trade.

Cease to Hope posted:

nope

here's a playtest report from the paradox discord though

Baronjutter posted:

Zeron posted:

I think it's just a name thing. It's just the step above National Militia where you still conscript people, but you can also have a big standing army if you want. And then it sounds like Regular Army puts more prestige on the standing army to encourage you to make it bigger and maybe restricts conscription a bit more?

I do like that National Militia seems like it lets you pretty much step out of the military game while still being reasonably buff if you don't plan to do conquering.

It seems like an interesting/very profitable playstyle would revolve around just becoming a huge arms manufacturer and trying to push countries into wars at every opportunity. If you do it as a big country you could even get into an arms race where you force your neighbors to arm up to match you..while profiting off them the entire time.

DJ_Mindboggler posted:

If the screenshots are nation-level, then a diverse nation will be unreadable. I may be basing this off of my mid-to-late game Stellaris xenophile experiences.

Edit: as for a better solution, something like an EU4-style ledger (with only data from your nation displayed) with a Cultures/ethnicities page. The page could have columns for absolute number of pops, percent of population, percent employed in various strata, and political power by ethnicity. Now, it would be really interesting from a historical simulation perspective (but terrible for gameplay) if the technological level of the administrative apparatus of the state determined the granularity of the information presented. Maybe something for EU5.

TwoQuestions posted:

Looks like Journal entries are the replacement for Focus Trees (from HOI4), and I've not played enough CK3 to speak intelligently how they relate to that game.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/victoria-3-dev-diary-31-journal-entries.1508059/

Tankbuster posted:

Can't wait to do my taxes ingame too.

Dorstein posted:

edit 2: achievement for making Marx a monarch.

Zeron posted:

As long as managing huge nations doesn't turn out to be too tedious, I'm actually really looking forward to playing Russia. In some of the recent AARs they've literally had slaves with higher SoL than Russian Serfs so modernizing and liberalizing it seems like a huge fun challenge. Kind of like the USA except you can actually lose.

Most of the AAR nations seemed like a blast too. Japan, USCA, Ottomans etc.

And then once I've got a handle on the game trying for the classics like Punjab/Ethiopia/Persia/some in Indonesia.

Baronjutter posted:

One thing I noticed in the stream is that production method micro has a large potential to be the new annoying micro. It looks so easy to forget to change production methods, to change too much, and generally it looks like it will suck up a lot of time despite having fairly optimal solutions for each situation. It would be nice to have a little automation there, have an AI you can mostly trust to adjust production methods based on your local resource prices. Do you have enough affordable iron to switch from wood to iron construction, then it does so, otherwise it jumps back down to wood.

No other vicky game had this level of granular per-factroy micro management, it's cool in theory when you have a tiny country with 10 buildings, but I can't imagine managing a world spanning empire's exact production methods. Maybe they'll introduce more easy one-click options. Like to convert only the amount you currently have the resources for, or to randomly convert 50% or 25% or so on. Because right now its either all, per state, or per-factory.

Crazycryodude posted:

Obviously I can't play the game yet but my reading isn't that aristocrats are necessary to order the idiot peasants to grow food, they'll do that just fine if you leave them alone. What they do is enable profitably extracting a surplus from agricultural industry, which is what the state and the player care about, but people don't just starve if you have 0 aristocrats. Hell, they're probably better off, but you the player/state aren't so gently caress 'em.

Jazerus posted:

gonna throw out a tip here that isn't immediately intuitive

running your budget in the red is Not Bad, in general. you're only starting to slide into the poo poo if you're over like 50% of your credit limit; doing stuff like paying high government and military wages can even pay for itself since you're putting money into the pockets of pops that can then be taxed through regular taxation and consumption taxes. i've noticed a real tendency in streams where people try to run austerity economies and that is like, the opposite of what you want to do. because basically every country on the planet starts underdeveloped, deficit spending produces enormous and immediate returns as you mobilize your pops into profitable industries. build fast enough in profitable industries and your credit limit will grow faster than your deficit which means you can just keep spending

that's not to say you shouldn't take a positive balance if you can get one, but the only tangible benefit of having gold reserves is being less fragile during war. if you anticipate a ruinous war then you probably don't want to be riding the line on your credit.

Baronjutter posted:

How do you change your government type? All my options are grayed out despite showing huge enaction chances. Is it because I'm still a subject under the UK?

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

So uh, in my US game I noticed the whigs won the election in 1836 and Abe Lincoln was president already. I put the whigs in power in government and pushed the "ban slavery" button and... it just worked? And there was no civil war? Everyone is cool with it? The southern planters even like me still! So next I pushed the "multiculturalism" button to abolish racial segregation, and that just worked too???

Is it supposed to be like this?

dead gay comedy forums posted:

this. this is the procedural content that totally owns bones because you can definitely see some pissed off inheritor just throwing money at the fabians to piss off his family and to be edgy

also lol at abolishing slavery from the get go as the USA and meanwhile it takes political trench warfare to get poor laws passed as Sweden

RabidWeasel posted:

Other than only being able to build extraction industries in the appropriate areas, and local infrastructure / arable land / population restrictions, is there any reason to spread out industries or should I just ram everything into the province with the most space and pops?

Tiler Kiwi posted:

you can also just have a leader that wants it

i had an autocratic military leader just go and decide to declare the rise of the soviet and push a socialist law instantly of my choosing, and then later the army radicalized into die-hard communists.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

Construction is the main vector of overproduction crisis atm because it does it really well because of how much it is demand responsive while also becoming a core sector of employment. From what I noticed, the majority of implosion clusterfucks that happened in games is when construction goes haywire for any reason and the chain reaction almost immediately devastates the player's economy (which is great!)

TwoQuestions posted:

https://twitter.com/PDXVictoria/status/1616088340100431872

Looks like they're also changing the amount of money people put into the Investment Pool, and changing how efficient such money is. I hope they expand who gets to contribute to the IP under socialism, as well as the State getting profits from businesses under Command Economy.

CapnAndy posted:

It actually kinda bugs me that, according to the game, I am objectively making their lives better. I'm running an admittedly ahistorically progressive government, and their standard of living is poo poo. They're a bunch of starving peasants and unemployed laborers; by the time I'm done even the meanest among them will have seen their SoL nearly double. Yes, okay, some of 'em are gonna die in workplace accidents, but I've got regulatory boards and welfare, and it's not like barely scratching out a living on a subsistance farm was so safe either, y'know?

That actually surprises me, unrecognized minors always have so many unemployed and peasants that I view any pre-industrialization they put up before I got there as a bonus. Less construction work for me, now it's time to actually automate your poo poo.

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

turns out the 1960 german unification play comes with a few complications

Lady Radia posted:

maybe every paradox game but many, many strategy games are able to have an interesting set of tradeoffs for things like "what units do i want in my army"

Gort posted:

- Fixed a bug where an event script may cause error logging if Paraguay ceases to exist