>introduce major controversial balance change in a hotfix

Yep, that's Paradox alright!

>>2403019
You referring to nerfing Political Concessions? I actually like that change, but calling it a hotfix change is nuts

hope you didn't like using political concessions at all bozos!
-Paradox Interactive

>>2403019
>>2403036
>controversial
Take anti-histamines, if you're allergic to difficulty, bozo.

>>2403024
Nerfing political concessions is fine, but the other concessions are impossible to fulfill from the midgame onward.
The ammount of shit you gotta build is just unreasonable, like hundreds of staple crop farms when all farmland is already used up.

>>2403044
Compromise is a tool of the weak.

>>2403044
That's still better than the SOL requests, which are literally impossible. Their existence is insulting.

Prev >>2386717

>>2403136
>>neoliberalism
>what

Trade/Capitalism is very strong. Multicultural migration is very strong. They're neoliberal principles the game favors. It also favors authoritarianism, evidenced by Secret Police being great and Protected Speech being comically bad. The game favors an odd mix of authoritarian neoliberalism.

>>2403056
Am I the only one who doesn't mind the lower tax request? I already try to keep taxes low since it hurts SOL

Does anyone else just lose interest in this game when the migrant wave spam starts happening?
>2403179
In my experience it is fine late game when you kinda already won most of the time

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>>2402928
you were right... fuck these bolivian pussies. i only got this tiny piece of land, so i didn't even notice that they folded. I still need the northern parts to make canon brazil.

>>2403043
I've seen a bunch a forum posts going "You're just mad because Paradox took away your win button"

This issue isn't that political concessions didn't need a nerf, it totally did, the issue was that this was a completely wrong place and time to introduce it. Also it was done in such a manner that it broke saves. One can also argue they overdid the nerf as well. A decaying penalty exactly what they did with bureaucracy would be much better.

Apparently YET another hotfix is in the works and I can almost guarantee they are going to dial the nerf back a bit.

Fuck at this point I might as well go back to Vic 2 or wait for Gilded Destiny. Maybe even reinstall S2:FotS to get my bakumatsu fix

>>2403155
I thought Worker Co-ops and Council Republics were totally busted? Am I wrong?

>>2403208
>It broke saves
Oh no, you have to turn off encourage manufacturing in a few states. The precious GDP

Who taught magatards the word "neoliberal"

>>2403296
The Bernie-to-Trump pipeline is real.

>>2403301
In this house we support the people's ethnostate

So what's the general strat for Japan with the DLC? I replace surfdom with tenant farmers ASAP and usually China gets their asses kicked by GB so I can open up the country but I'm at a loss of what to do next. Should I bother with dealing with famines or just build iron mines and tooling workshops in Tohoku so I can get construction going? Any techs I should beeline?

>>2403179
It's objectively very bad before you're past a certain level of development.

>>2403155
>The game favors an odd mix of authoritarian neoliberalism.
Every country is Singapore.

>>2403233
Only when you're completely squeezed on margin, so very late game.

In one of the Charters of Commerce hotfixes they randomly halved the construction to make power plants which was another huge balance change, but no one complained because it made things easier

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I'm too retarded to understand how warfare works in this game. All I know is that they raise troops and move them to the front and then I raise troops and move therm to the front and then I watch my army get steamrolled

>>2403471
Turns out that supplying your army is very important.

>>2403010
I hate how this game has set the precedent of Paradox economic systems running on a historical-materialist narrative. You're practically pushed towards making a technocratic gay communist dictatorship that dominates the world economy with ease and is made out of the brownest melting pot ever.

>>2403233
Only after you've already won the game and have more money than you can spend.

>>2403310
No, Singapore is not migrant friendly. Every country wants to be a WEF Karl Shwab state.

>>2403572
Singapore has been extremely reliant on immigration historically, moron.

Multicultural technocratic capitalism is the most historically successful ideologically every time it is tried. Ancient Egypt, Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the United States, modern China, India. Not once has racism or fascism ever worked.

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Could anyone give me a quick rundown on some stuff? I'm trying to get better at this as much as my potato PC allows
>MAPI - how do I into it? Do I need to build one furniture and textile in every state to satisfy the poor fucks?
>Construction Sector - I should focus on a single state with it + its inputs, right?
>Universities - also one on each state + focus on one till inovation cap?
>Diplo Treaties - how do I properly into it? I know that whatever good you put, you buy it from your market (so give away cheap shit), what about their stuff? What price will I actually pay? Is it worth it?
>Also diplo - AI never seems ok with selling me provinces or ships. Thats intended?
>Ships - I need tons if I want interests in Africa/Asia as an euro/american ? Whats a good number of them + shipyards?
>Laws - just pray for a Reformer activist to show up? I really like Free Trade + Laissez, but giving power to Trade Unions seem very hard
If I recall more I will post em. Thanks in advance

>>2403208
>it broke saves
If you read .4 patch notes and went on to play a long game, I don't know what to tell you.

>Gilded Destiny
Ok. Nice meme.

>>2403471
It's really simple.
>infantry = defense
> artillery = attack
>cavalry = speed
Then just make sure they're all supplied correctly and you have a good general.

>>2403609
cavalry = attack early game when you're too poor to afford artillery

>>2403609
>>2403613
Should also add that cavalry is more effective attackers than artillery until you unlock shrapnel artillery.

>>2403595
Not great on this game but will try to give osme advice till someone better comes around
>MAPI
don't bother with furniture and textile early game. Focus on your lumber and tools industry and other substantial goods like paper for the admin.
Stock Exchange is obligatory to research early unless you only got one state that matters

>construction sector
build them in states that produce the input goods, wood and then iron. steel frame you can stack in your capital and other provinces of interest for the building bonus.
>unis
you build as many as you can afford. which is usually decided by your access to paper. though the return from every university diminishes the more you build. First 10 unis speeds up your reserch by 20%, the 10 after that speeds it up by 16%, pretty simple right?
Philosophy Department is inferior to Scholastic Education unless you're swimming in paper.
not one in each state, stacking them gives a throughput bonus. I've never experienced any trouble with Qualifications but maybe that's because i always play in high lit countries.

The rest I will leave to others

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>>2403619
looked at the unit stats and you're right, holy hell

>>2403624
>>2403619
Ehhh, 50-50 Line Infantry - Mobile Artillery, actually. And you get an Inexperienced Commander, so it will grind exp to get Artillery Commander, and you get Heavy Barrage. Gotta raise that Kill Rate, because the number of troops DOES matter.

>30% cavalry for Rapid Advance
>20% artillery for Heavy Barrage
The most flexible composition.

And yes, there is a hidden trait exp grinding mechanic, like in HoI4.

>>2403136
Anon is referring to a term invented in the '80s and popularised in the '90s to refer to "Business leaders and politicians I don't like getting lots of money".
It is characterised by
>the influx of foreign labour to destabilise the security of the native labour to create both profit and consumers
>the creation of laws to formalise monopolies or an ad hoc creation of markets for products no-one bought before or since
>the belief that only states have agency, an anti-individualism, because consumers can have their right to private money revoked as tax is, non-consensually, spent on products and services which may not affect them positively, may not affect them at all, and again, most importantly, without their consent to pay for it
>the excessive focus on legalism, legalese, and lawfare
>the collapse in family life and fertility
>the focus on line goes up
It is a conjunction of the words Neo and Liberal, which refers to a New take on the Liberal model of doing what one wishes with the resources at one's disposal with no oversight, but ironically refers to a system of oversight, concert or support, that may be more easily relatable to conservative or feudal power structures and economics, as a corporate structure is required in the neoliberal paradigm.

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>carefully pick laws to protect my autocracy
>no visible coup
>no visible revolt
>some random cunts turned my carefully planned autocracy into a presidential republic

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>>2403233
Those don't disagree with immigration but promote it due to SOL and their supporting factions are the ones who get the Humanist ideologies. Anarchism itself is all about multiculturalism in this game.
The game itself is very inline with Swedish, or European neoliberalism where the State is King as despite enacting co-ops... nothing really changes because you were always the construction sector. You are the State.

You can relate it to Disney, Amazon or any modern game publsiher where creatives produce things that say "Um, crapitalism, amirite?!!" but ultimately the writer is a cog in the machine. A very comfortable cog.

>>2403595
>MAPI
Let your capitalists build regionally. Traditionalism is bad.
If you want a lot of X, build it in a state with good market access (e.g. London).
It is better to build engine factories and steel mills in provinces with iron and coal, partly because it's a circular economy.
>Construction sectors
Yes, build up as much as you can reasonably afford in a single state, preferably a place with coal, iron, wood and sheep.
>Universities
In a single state, they do not provide literacy or education access and I don't remember if they provide qualifications
>Diplo
A good is bought at market rate from one market, and sold in the other
If it costs more in the receiving market, a profit is made by you
You can check prices per market before you do this and the AI will generally stop you from buying "too much" and distorting the market in a way that wouldn't be profitable
>I can't buy provinces
I recall there is another tool that lets you swap provinces
Very undeveloped, unpopulous, aka african provinces can be paid for but it's very, very costly, and often requires an upward trade of land, despite all the journal events based on real and fictional land purchases being extremely cheap
Unfortunately this feature is mostly for PvP, not singleplayer, possibly because it'd be abused harder than any other cheats
>Ships
It's a bit early to know what's a good amount
>Laws
You want laws that reflect your nation's economic status
Later laws are for developed nations, middle laws are for developing nations, early laws are for kingdoms
Trade Unions don't get power until later, sometimes never, ever since democracy was implemented along with wealth weighted voting, but the best bet is to go universal suffrage and have >12SoL for the poor, however remember that you cannot afford social welfare or minimum wage laws if you do not have a functioning economy (aka everyone is in a high productivity job and doesn't need welfare, aka you've already achieved "wealth redistribution")

>>2403576
Singapore is Han supremacist. It's not multicultural like the game favors.

>>2403623
For universities, the meta is to ignore them until you're rich. Catching up on tech in the late game is very easy.

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>>2403208
>Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 (8 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 580 (8 GB)
No competent dev wants to touch gsg

any good map skin mods?
i don't like any of vanilla maps,

>>2403203
You have to push everything you want to a primary demand if you want to get it even if the back down

>>2403804
what on earth are they doing that needs 8 gb of vram

>>2403630
>a hidden trait exp grinding mechanic, like in HoI4.
not completely hidden. If you look at a military assistance treaty, it's on there

>>2403819
The 3D map is actually quite pretty. Best looking PDX game imo. A shame I play it zoomed out to the paper flat map 99% of the time.

>>2403828
I don't know why they bother with these high graffix maps. I want a gsg I can play on my shitty laptop while I'm away from home. If Paradox can't provide that then I'm going to play something else.

>>2403828
8GB is a whole lot of 4k textures applied to ten-pixel objects

>>2403848
>ten-pixel objects
There's actually quite a bit going on during battles or harvest conditions.

>>2403828
>>2403846
That's Gilded Destiny's minimum spec GPU. Recommended GPU is 4060 16gb. Victoria 3 can run on 2gb 660

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>poland tries to secede
>your bloc junior has a revolt
>denmark tries to fuck you over
>west prussia tries to overthrow the government
>netherlands for some reason decides to fuck you over too
Holy shit there's so much action happening in central Europe. I'm used to not having a single war until the 1900s

>>2403726
Wrong. Here it is straight from the horse's mouth, around 2 minutes in if you don't want to watch the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A8zcKOrJ-v8

What's the play for a minor vassal like Canada or Australia?
>part of Brit market so don't have to worry about basics like tools etc besides mapi
>mostly good laws at start
>very small pop
>so small tax base
>building anything takes forever because can't afford to build too much
>can't go into red because interest
>some only have one state
Pretty boring unless I'm doing something wrong.
Though pretty funny watching lower canada become quebec because gb couldn't be arsed to naval invade after rebels took over entire eastern seaboard.

>>2403997
Conquer/balkanize the US, conquer South/Central American states and then declare independence while remembering to also conquer Newfoundland.
>>2403595
>MAPI
Doesn't really matter outside of underdeveloped nations in the early game, largely mitigated by laws/tech over time.
>Construction
More is better, build in high MAPI state(s) first if underdeveloped, but after that it doesn't matter. You often have the problem of running out of slots for expanding construction by the endgame.
>Unis
Stack to take advantage of throughput bonus, use tech spread if you're a low literacy nation since increasing literacy is too slow (can you tell I play China a lot?), no need to really think about qualifications since internal migration usually handles that.
>Diplo
Goods transfers are sold at market prices in the respective nations, think of it more like an exclusivity deal rather than something that modifies existing world trade. You can get them to trade states, but it always requires giving up a lot and stacking a bunch of modifiers, cash transfers and now boats are the most effective.
>Ships
As much as you are able to support, just like construction. I think ship stats matter more than quantity though.
>Laws
It's more about movements now, you can generate movements + agitators by exiling or pissing off a certain IG. TUs won't really be relevant before you invent the socialism tech, and even then they won't really get too strong unless you fuck up the economy so the socialism events play out.

>>2403997
Gain independence so GB stops raping you with vassal fees.

>>2404006
>>2404014
OK, but how do I get to the point of actually doing fun stuff? Seems like it's way too slow how I was doing it.

>>2404018
Start as an already strong country if you want to do expansionism as quickly as possible. You kind of have to know what you're doing if you want to play as an underdeveloped state.

>>2404018
Japan is great for learning the game and if you do it well you turn into a super power instead of just slightly more developed british victim

>>2404050
>Japan is great for learning the game
Not anymore really, too many events thanks to the new DLC. Sweden or Belgium are the best beginner countries now.

>>2404014
You just want autonomy, being in the british market and getting the power bloc bonuses are too good to give up until you're ready to be a great power

>>2404226
Or play as South Africa or Australia and supply Britain with so much gold that you can pay their fees twice over.

>>2404433
Gold is kind of undertuned and has been for a while tbqhwy

>>2404610
Yeah, it's not even consumed or anything...

Wonder if Wiz had bigger plans for it. Like EU5's minting consuming gold AND silver.

the only way to play this shit is just tag switch and surrender as ai and tag switch back, the way war score is counted is so fucking retarded it's unbelievable, the way that armies act and how battles go on is just nonsense. You can have 10 to 1 advantage in men, have 70 and over advantage and still be losing battles because the generals chose to bring no units. Unless every stinking general is commanded to attack the capital they will always go around it and I am not convinced that even that works. It's just dumb, just bring back the fucking stacks.

>brazil dow me (USA) to transfer vassal (nicaragua)
>no common border
>brazil has small navy, usa big
>no common borders because for some reason puppets don't get called in
>blockade everything
>two separate navys on intercept
>no naval battles, brazil navy just passes through all of mine
>can't naval invade because brazil too big
No fighting, so war weariness just keeps ticking identically . Nice game.

>I can't enact command economy because you need authoritarian distribution of power but communist ideology does not advocate for any of them
I just wanted to recreate Soviet Union for fuck sake

So I started as Transvaal and conquered a lot of the states around me what now how can I get more boer?

>>2404822
>>2404832
Skill issues, clearly.
>>2404849
You use single-party, which lots of different character ideologies approve of.
>>2404850
You don't, prepare for immigrants dutchboi

>>2404884
>You use single-party, which lots of different character ideologies approve of.
I can't get a single party guy and for some reason vanguardists don't exists

>>2404885
Well no, vanguardists practically don't exist unless you let the socialism JE complete, which in turn requires intentionally playing poorly.

Try inviting a fascist, positivist or bonapartist or something.

>>2404849
The devs expect you to use wholesome co-op communism, not real communism.

>>2404904
>co-op's
>100% government reinvestment
>35% private construction allocation
for fuck sake, I have to build everything, but don't benefit from it and retard private sector is to slow to buy up shit so it stays owned by me for forever

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>Best SOL in the world.
>GDB per capita between number 1 and 2.
>4-2nd greatest GB, while being allied with Britain.
>Safe from any outside threat.
>Plenty of things to be proud about.

That sounds like the perfect conditions for a fascist uprising, and of course it's so popular that most of the army goes along with it, and of course Britain sends 14 whole divisions and nothing else to help because AI allies just can't seem to land troops in friendly territory. And of fucking course, the uprising somehow shat out like, 200 more divisions then I had pre-uprising. This shit makes no fucking sense. The entire run is ruined because people got pissed at living in the most comfortable nation on the planet for no reason.

>>2404935
How did it get 300 battalions wtf

>>2404938
>>2404935
>what are conscripts
Damn, you idiots really don't have any idea how to play the game.

>>2404935
just continue playing as the revolt
game is retarded that it gives you lose screen for losing to revolution

>>2404935
why do you have so many radicals? Show movement screen before the revolt

>>2404935
>That sounds like the perfect conditions for a fascist uprising
Happened in the US IRL thoughbeit

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Heh heh, don't mind if I expand a little bit. I'm just unifying the German people :)

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had my puppet form Italy

The reviews for the new DLC are the worst I’ve ever seen and that’s even for paradox, think I’ll steer clear of this one

>>2404960
just pirate

>>2404963
Why If it’s shit anyway? Apprently it’s game breaking all the great powers can’t use the new mechanics

>>2404970
>Why If it’s shit anyway?
Still less shit than previous version

>>2404935
You allowed the perfidious Belgian into your union and now you reap the consequences

How are you supposed to play china? Am I supposed to just build infinity bureaucrats to fix tax waste and actually be able to got education? Also with so many people on farms I assume its impossible to properly industrialize and get the landowners to fuck off?

>conquer böhmen from austria
>it came with 1 fucking million peasants
I felt like I hit the jackpot. I really should pay attention more to what sorts of states are around me

How do I have fun playing France?

>>2405067
You ignore tax collection for peasants, concentrate all of your industry and admins in a few states to collect taxes there, and snowball with your massive workforce. Never use institutions unless you want to spend an actual fortune on paper and only go homesteading if you want the rural folk to permanently have power
>>2405085
Go legitimist, support the carlists in spain, get a personal union and fuck up germany

>>2404935
>spend decades growing radicals (by overtaxing?)
>provoke a civil war by trying to pass an extremely unpopular law
>pikachu face
bro is roleplaying modern eu doing replacement migration for "your own good"

>>2404935
>Dutch fascist revolt
>its actually Belgians

>watch Japan video
>"heres how to modernize with Japan and achieve 6 gorillion GDP by 1850"
>unpauses
>day 2 gets Modernizer agitator
I swear 99% of vic3 videos are plain cheaters

>>2405105
Dude just restart 1000 times to get the modernizer its so fun :)

>>2405067
As a certified China enjoyer, my loop has been:
>opium war is kind of eh these days, it used to be pretty good for instant recognition with the help of russia, but actually landing any british states is hard in current patch, even though britain won't be successful landing you either
>build up the iron having states first
>don't worry about bureaucracy, most of your tax collection boosts will be from tech/legislation at some point, run high taxes and stay on your starting tax law until development reaches a certain point (i.e., once prop tax goes positive)
>some swear to homesteading, there is an argument to be made for it as a stabilizing factor, but long-term it tends to cause stagnation
>institutions are no bueno until you reach the point of development where you can comfortably change tax law
>conquer burma, siam, vietnam, central asian states and then eventually indian states
>migration controls can actually be helpful, china is one of the only countries in the game were losing population isn't always necessarily bad

>>2405105
>>2405113
It's pretty reliable for Japan by exiling the Intelligentsia leader, given how relatively strong they start compared to many other countries.

>no migration policy that "allows" undesirables leave but not come back
But why?

>>2405120
Emigration is pointless for China because it's too slow. Unemployed pops reproduce far faster than they leave.

>>2405152
True, might help shift the ratio of radicals to loyalists though.

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Playing Germany makes me feel so powerful. All that iron, coal and food... perfection

>>2405172
I have literally never played germany in this game. I really should do a germany or britain game one of these days just to enjoy the powertrip of it

>>2404938
Fuck if I know. It's more then twice what I had, and I got as much conscripts as possible.
>>2404940
But they have worse laws and shit. Everything will be weaker.
>>2404941
I have no idea. I make the most comfortable to live in nation in the world and people fucking go apeshit.
>>2405039
I started as Belgium.
>>2405097
Funnily enough, this was not long after passing stricter immigration laws.

>>2405183
>But they have worse laws and shit. Everything will be weaker.
Like what?

>>2405178
Germany is alright up until the unification at least, I think Austria is more fun but obviously much more difficult with the NA content. Britain is a snoozer, basically just playing with cheats.

>>2404904
>>2404849
>>2404911
Vanguardism. You're thinking of Vanguardism.

>decided to play vic 3 multiplayer, none of us have the DLC so i thought we'd be more or less fine
>makes it to only fucking 1845 before the game actually just collapses upon itself due to desyncs involving the retarded boats
bravo paradox, bravo

>multiplayer
Nobody cares.

>>2405326
Ya, I tried playing multiplayer a year or two ago with friend and it worked for ~20 years and then just broke and desynced.
Did paradox stop doing those big inhourse multiplayer sessions? Its probably for the best since most people always played the game single player and focusing on multiplayer balance was a detriment to the game, but it would be nice to do multiplayer larp games with friends sometimes

>>2405172
Also, fuck that little Denmark-Sweden cuck strait. I did not enjoy doing a naval invasion on Sweden for Scania and England for Denmark

>>2405361
Bokoen1 and friends seem to be doing those just fine.

>>2404018
This is the fun stuff!
Yeah
It's that bad

No, warfare isn't fun

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>>2404849
>>2405299
Why isn't vanguardism in my political movement?
>>2404901
>socialism JE
It didn't exist in that for me. Nor when I failed it. The movements only have anarchists and communists and any rebellions are anarch-led.

>>2404850
Immigration and assimilation of those immigrants.
How you specifically focus on getting Dutch immigrants I don't know. The game doesn't really do that.

>>2404940
>game is retarded that it gives you lose screen for losing to revolution
Just pick the winning side!
I don't get it either. They should just give you a penalty for it if they think you're just going to abuse civil wars, like a low legitimacy ceiling for 20 years.

>>2405105
>watch any tutorial video
>open any written guide
>ask any redditor how 2 gitgud

>"First thing is to [character ideology via spawn, invite, or event and to use DLC to grant leadership]"
Funny how politics in the game is literally what dear leader says the hive mind follows.
Is it a surprise the enlightened royalty interracial event was added that triggered every single game 5 years in? Even the devs know that's how their game works

>>2405390
>Why isn't vanguardism in my political movement?
You can always expand to see modifiers that affect the weight, but it's mostly RNG.

The game does not currently have ideological development and progression of socialist theory.

Marx fell out with Anarchism after the failure of Cantonal Rebellion in Spain 1873. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was a smackdown so hard it destroyed Utopians. Vanguardism itself rises out of bitter debate about the role of a political party as reflection of people's will (that had been propagandized to all their lives, and kept illiterate) and one that leads them to be better. Social Democracy and attempts at peaceful reform being largely failures did not help.

>>2404935
>8M radicals in a country of 10M
>WTF why are we in a civil war i dindu nuffin

>>2405416
Only a fraction of elderly and newborn kids aren't for government's blood.

>>2404935
>Commitment: Raise AVERAGE SoL from 18.5 to 33
Jesus. No wonder everyone clicked concessions before. Paradox you have to make these reasonable if you expect us to use them at all.

>>2405420
It's all relative, you know. The trick is to use it early, when you're on track to get Homesteading/Peasant proprietorship from Serfdom. There's nothing wrong with mechanics falling off later game.

Especially since this time period isn't known for being politically harmonious.

>>2405423
You say that but I know these are the same swedes who slapdashed together the same checks for CK3 which will fine you an insane sum of gold off an event. They just have no system in place for reasonable scaling.

I just learned that you can manually promote generals for more army capacity...

>>2405435
The EU4 experience of discovering buttons to press is too authentic. They really should get rid EU4's influence. Rivalry system creates the dumbest diplo play scenarios.

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They must've fucked up the AI. India is just jerking off instead of helping the British like they always do. When I played Germany and helped Russia invade China, the fucking Russians only sent 70 soldiers to the frontlines against China's 600 instead of going full force

Favourite Victoria 3 track? Glory to the Queen for me.

>>2405458
EIC can't really invade with gorillion jeets anymore because they don't have the boats
also they might be stayed home due to high liberty desire

>>2405500
faded rose is too good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6AGNYZg41c

>>2405420
That or other dumb shit like build 150 more agriculture or government buildings. It's so fucking dumb. What were they thinking when they decided to remove the only decent option before fixing everything else

>>2405390
Get the Council Republic Expanded mod, it's great for commie gameplay.

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>Be Ottoman
>Fight Egypt to reduce automy and take lands
>Frontline fucking disapears out of nowhere
>Can't naval invade because not enough transport capacity
>Fucking loses the war because I literally can't win
Nice fucking game Paradox.

>>2405957
had this bug too, just switch tag to Egypt and surrender
Beautiful map by the way

>>2403010
so I've waited to buy vicky and I wonder; is it finally good now? Worth buying or not?

>>2405990
Yeah if you mod it at least

>>2405992
what mods and DLC's would you recommend make it good, and what kind of nation should I play first?

>>2405995
Hail Columbia is my personal favorite, but I'm a burger. I also really like the dev's other mods such as War is Politics and Council Republics Expanded.
I dove in with America, got my butt kicked, but had a great time anyway.
>DLC
You don't need any, but Sphere of Influence helps.

>>2405990
it's good in general but not at the moment as they have fucked up the naval DLC (patches 1.2.x). wait for 1.3 and 1.3.x patches, should be a really good time to jump in - i personally can't get back to liqqy2

>>2406110
sorry im fucking retarded, fucked up patches are 1.13.x, 1.14.x should be the solid ones as, per Wiz diary, they will double down on improving AI interaction with game systems

>>2405990
yeah, it's good just get or pirate the major dlcs

>take Lombardy from Austria
>go to establish Mantero Sera
>they already established it
So... is there any way to get them to unestablish it, or am I just locked out of it until they get annexed or something

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>get a heavenly kingdom revolt
>annex them
>whole economy is permanently fucked now
why yes i love barely breaking even with max taxes and no construction sectors

I've been reasonably enjoying EU5 but the patches keep fucking up my save and the economic gameplay doesn't really seem appropriate to the time. Should I give Victoria 3 a shot? What's the state of warfare these days? Part of the reason I skipped it was some of the early decisions.

>>2406363
This is normal after revolts. Just reset PMs and maybe delete some army, you might also be losing taxes due to incorporation issues and receiving higher interest rates due to dropped power rank.

>>2406365
No toy soldiers.

>>2406363
You're missing probably like 20% of your taxes just from the lack of bureaucracy.

>>2406394
This is the number one China noob trap lmao

>>2406397
No, it's not. Trying to max out local taxation is a noob trap. Having a balanced bureaucracy (so at least 0) is a must-have for any country, unless you decide to avoid taxing people at all and instead rely on tariffs and other sources of income, which is rough.

>>2406397
>>2406398
Yeah, negative bureaucracy double dips your tax revenue.

>>2406363
>£-283k
wtf are you spending on?
I've never played china

>>2405405
>You can always expand to see modifiers that affect the weight, but it's mostly RNG.
It's straight up not in the movement.

>>2405420
>raise SoL!
Sure I'll get right on creating jobs and pulling resources out of thin air for 40m people to buy.
I can definitely do that at any point and I don't have zero control over it and how it's 90% a wage issue.

Yeah, all the other options were always retarded, especially with lategame economies. "Build 40% more bureaucracy!" might not even be affordable early game now either.

>>2406459
>I've never played china
NTA but go look at their pop numbers some time. They are playing an entirely different game over there from anyone else

>>2406365
>What's the state of warfare these days?
Navy update broke the AI ability to play the game. Moving armies across the sea is annoying as fuck right now because of how bad the army UI is. A bandaid fix makes ships ferry troops back and forth in little chunks for as much carry capacity as they have, sounds nice right? Now you have 50 stacks of 2K guys each with no general, no org, and have to remerge them yourself. On top of that blockades with boats are brokenly weak because of how it divides blockade force across states by volume of trade going on. With enough trade flowing (read any) your expensive warships are worthless for anything except transport duty and coastal defense if the AI manages to figure out how to naval invade again. It won't.
Generating interests in regions on the map to be able to play the game is annoying. Having a direct land border with locations doesn't mean anything.
Roll back to 1.12 patch and it's much more playable if you can tolerate magic swimming armies the boat system was meant to solve.

What the hell does the AI spend all their time and money on that you can reach top 10 GDP with minor nations and easily become the #1 producer for multiple goods

>>2405990
the naval update has ruined the game for me and I don't even own the DLC
it's just Hoi4 all over again which I stopped playing as soon as the navy was given fuel and a ship designer
I'd want a refund so I'd never be tempted to play again but my hours would say no

i was already not liking how the game was going with the global market because it's not a properly built mechanic, it's just tacked on, so I can't actually see what's going on so it's sucking the fun out of the economy game

>>2406479
Civil wars, mostly

Not played this shit extensively or in a while, thinking of getting back into it. Looking for a few answers
>do civil wars still game over you if you lose?
>are railroads still always unprofitable and need subsidizing due to no demand for transportation good?
>is colonization still retarded where africa becomes an ungodly ugly mess instead of straight clean borders
>do you still become GP #1 if you're playing at all competently by 1880 as any country?
If the answer to all of these is yes I probably won't bother.

>>2406484
Yes to all of the above. More like Africa just doesn't get colonized right now though.

>>2406487
Damn, I need a less broken game. I'm going back to EU5.

the war and peace "negotiation" system is such fucking dogshit
i want to end my war against prussia early without enforcing the german leadership wargoal, but nooo, anhalt, schaumburg-lippe and brunswick say otherwise. why the fuck do they have any say whatsoever in when and how the war ends, and why is there no separate peace option so i can abandon my co-belligerent(s) or force the enemy to abandon theirs without a full capitulation?
what the fuck were these idiots at paradox thinking

Anyone ever tried 'forcing' the world economy to be productive? I mean shit like flooding the world with cheap ass merchant marine even when it's not profitable for you.

>>2406484
I think railroads got better and investment pool builds them frequently, but sometimes they still do need subsidizing

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What the actual fuck? I specifically stationed my troops in WA to prevent this very thing.

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>>2406504
Figured out what was going on:
game thought that army was stationed overseas. Even though it obviously wasn't.
At least when the front eventually moved to the south, they got unfrozen and tried to move back to hq (as exiles). Rebels got 3/4 of the country without a fight as my army bounced back and forth, until they were finally able to make it to the front and won the war in three battles.
>TAD

>>2406480
Imagine getting filtered by the ship designer of all fucking things.

>>2406504
>>2406513
This certainly explains why I sometimes see independent uluru, bravo paradox

>>2406504
tbf sea travel would've been the only way to make that trip irl. Even NSW to Perth overland wasn't possible until the railway was build in 1917, let alone northern WA. But yeah, troops movement overseas is fucked rn; successful Aboriginal uprisings happen every game because the AI just can't get armies there.

>>2406503
They become decent when you enable the rural labour saving PMs. Before that there's no demand for transportation so railroads need subsidies. That fact that railroads are just a boring building you have to build when you run out of infra is so demoralising. I don't know how I'd fix it though, the concept of transport infra and its effect on the economy is so awkwardly split between MAPI, infrastructure, and the transport good. They're all kind of trying to represent the same thing, but don't interact in any way and have different effects on the game.

>>2406520
We can't have army men but give an autist his model train set to play with. They already have the 3D assets on map.
How about this napkin sketch of an idea: Replace "railroad" with a railhead building you would have as endpoints or hubs along routes, then you build rails from A to B in states in between which drives down local prices for goods along the route. Transportation as a good would probably have to be reworked.

>>2406504
i hate that paradox add more tribal bullshit especially in australia
loud minority of wakanda revisionists genuinely need to be put down

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>japanese radical revolt wins with 3000 men and annexes imperial japan
kek. you can't convince me 1.13.5 didn't completely fuck up the ai

>>2406576
Kaurna starting as a civilised protectorate of the UK and the borders that creates annoys me so much. It's ahistorical and probably just so there's a playable Aboriginal tag. South Australia did uniquely have explicit protections for Aboriginals but they were still pushed from their traditional lands to make way for British settlement. The Kaurna language had died out by 1900.

>>2405990
Same question but pirating instead of buying. That game looked so fucking trashy that I wasn't even willing to pirate it.

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Save my run /vsg/....
The chain revolts will destroy großß east asianiums....
1895 and everyone is a radical, from SOL rather then discrimination
Any feedback appreciated

>>2406635
>universal suffrage with giga overcharged peasants on homesteading
>no home affairs
it's probably beyond repair
going universal suffrage before depeasanting is a really bad
other than that, you just need to grow faster and depeasant more aggressively
asian countries can build rice paddies to accelerate depeasanting since it doesn't result in unemployment
foreign investment are good on big backward countries

>>2406641
I have a large unemployed pop in big states. Does building rice paddies take away land from subsistence farming?
Would going commercial agriculture help?
I've heard that since 1 level of rice paddies hires less then subsistence farms, it causes unemployment

>>2406646
rice plantations with no labour saving hires 10k, same as subsistence. It's the only one that doesn't create unemployment.

Start by getting home affairs to reduce the turmoil penalities. You're pretty fucked even then though, it's probably even worth granting investment rights to other GPs and releasing some of your Chinese land as puppets.

>>2406646
don't use labor saving pms until you ran out of peasants, you just tank productivity for no reason

>>2406646
you gotta put people into the coal mines, the japanese yearn for it

Anyone played the 1776 mod?

>>2406515
I don't like fuel
If EU4, when sailors were added, decided manpower should be used in both armies and navies, I'd have quit that one there too rather than when they decided colonies need to be culture converted and abbos are stronk centralised kingdoms

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>russia asking for a piece of your land every 5 years
>heavenly kingdom deciding to fuck you over
>britain randomly joining wars against you
China is actually surprisingly hard. Everyone treats you like a punching bag, but I survived, and it's time for revenge

>>2406522
>How about this
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by drives down local prices. The only way I'm interpreting that is deleting profit.
I feel like railways should increase MAPI relative to the best access province they're connected to. I wish MAPI was... different... somehow. It feels like any landlocked region more easily trades with London and Amsterdam than the next province over.

>>2406832
>I feel like railways should increase MAPI relative to the best access province they're connected to.
I was playing with a mod that lowers base MAPI and makes railroads and ports give MAPI. It still didn't feel right that the government has to subsidise them for the sake of industrial efficiency. In real life railroads were massively profitable and created huge investment bubbles.

Are there any good mods yet?

>>2406635
>expensive groceries, clothes, liquor
Food factories and clothes factories, if you can afford it.
>10% of radicals are TU aligned
That might mean your peasants are fine, might not.
>Restricted Child Labor
Retvrn to child labor (if you can):
1) you have a peasant economy, this is free welfare from the magic money tree because paradox doesn't model child labor as laborers, they can afford to buy more which will help when you build more consumer factories
2) increased mortality will reduce radicals
>Industrialists and Landowners have more radicals than loyalists
OOF

Do you know what their minimum expected SoL is? I can't remember if you can see, just that social tech increases it and subsistence halves it or something

You might want to go through your tariffs and take them off the essentials (don't put on subventions) but this relies on the world producing what you need at a lower price than you and your trading capacity to be big and profitable (oh and ask what your traders are currently trading if anything)
Check your PMs are actually good, i.e. turn off labor saving in places with lots of peasants and IF your consumer factories are struggling to be profitable, what you can do for that
Sorry that my advice is "just get a better consumer economy, lmao"

If you need quick cash, remember to privatize but that requires your industrialists to have money in the first place

>>2406646
>large unemployed pop
If the game let you encourage emigration I'd tell you to do that
If you're talking about your chinese province... well I'm not saying figuring out how to reduce their market access and their food supplies is a humane solution, but it would limit the economic impact on your functioning states...

>start a game as non GP
>need to build iron/wood/tools for construction
>need ports for infrastructure
>need universities for faster research + qualifications
>need stuff pops need
>need army stuff
>need navy stuff
>a single building takes 2+ months to get done
>if you go too fast on construction sectors you're in deep debt on the first year
So in this game you basically idle click stuff and only start really playing on 1870+ ?

>>2406880
No, you only really start playing on 1900+

>>2406884
This, shame the game ends not long after you start playing

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How am I supposed to get all that investment money out of there? I'll go bankrupt before they ever go red

>>2406927
it's basically impossible to have enough construction as china, investment transfers will cover all construction goods costs
also iirc there's some fuckery with private construction queue, there's a cap on how many things it can have, but i don't remember the number

>>2406923
'Member when fences were an endgame tech unlocked at the same time as electric fences?
>>2406927
Do you think modern countries also ask how do they get all that money out the private sector?

Anyway, if you can somehow reform off poll tax onto graduated, you might find it solves all your problems. It taxes dividends but only after investment so you get the benefits of capitalism and socialism in one law.

>>2406520
Don't pops use transportation? I don't remember having any rural building labour saving PM's enabled and I got profitable railroads

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>>2406975
Yes, however it's used by 20SoL pops (and nothing else besides labour saving?) so if you have infrastructure problems you need farms, mines and loggers to fund it for you if you don't want it funded through taxation

Unless the wiki's wrong, there are also other quirks:
>train PM increases infrastructure at the same rate as transport
>except electric trains produce more transport, and with the Transport Infrastructure bloc principle diesel trains produce more infrastructure
>the carriage PM is all about producing more transport, aka go back down to wooden or no carriages to have pops pay for more, shittier trains, to fund more infrastructure

I hope they rejig the PMs, like how they made it so electricity doesn't start with pollutionless hydro power
It feels wrong that trains have a historic line of progression PMs when they all use different resources and you can unlock diesel trains at the same time as electric trains... it all feels a bit more gamey than the rest of the economy (economy with oil beats electricity beats coal beats nothing), which I can't tell if that's the point
Oh and then there's the whole thing where the engines you make in your engine factory have PMs for steam, electric and diesel... and that doesn't matter because they're generic engines that eat whatever fuel you feed them in their destination building


I'd prefer something like
>PM for engine tier
>PM for fuel type
>PM for +infrastructure -transport, balanced trains, -infrastructure +transport
or maybe to make it so that railways *just work* with minimal micromanagement. This game is really annoying with how it's always you need to build the rail to flip the factory to rail transport to then prove to the capitalists railways make money so they start building them. Victoria II did this fine somehow.

>>2406818
Yes, you're a fucking casual and a shitter, we get it.

You don't even need to bust out the word "fun" when faced with any degree of difficulty, we already know you do it.

>>2407066
>you're a fucking casual because you don't like mana bloat
Okay anon
Why don't you just play Captain of Industry or that Soviet city builder or whatever if paradox is too casual for you with its phone game UI?

>>2403726
>Singapore is Han supremacist
Singaporean Chinese are native Hokkien speakers and got Mandarin beat into them for decades

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>>2406932
>can't have enough construction
I didn't believe you at first...
>-1.65m welfare payments
I fugged up

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>>2407123
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>>>>He doesn't know...

>>2407035
>Victoria II did this fine somehow
Yeah, by making railways a passive throughput bonus, you dingus.

Just subsidize the things and force RGOs to consume transportation. Private ownership of railways was a mistake in real life, too.

>>2407148
Which welfare and can you run out the clock? It'll be HoI4's problem instead.

>>2407170
Just poor laws. I've done wage subsidies once, and it was fucking horrible. Everyone refused to work and just leeched off the state.
Yeah, I think I'll survive. Kinda broken that the interest rate is only 3%. I've been like 40-50 years in deficit. It's also crazy that I made it with 30-50% radicals throughout the whole game without any coups

>>2407175
>Kinda broken that the interest rate is only 3%
My favorite strat is to push credit multiplier to 0

>tfw failed to get Meiji in power
How the fuck do you do it?
Gotta wait until his Sickly father dies to progress with the Imperial Reformation journal? I think I went too fast.
Also doing the Imperial Marriage route on that makes me rewind all my good laws (migration and trade). Are you supposed to skip it?
Second time I merge the Shogunate and Emperor (leaving the Shogun as ruler). But these Tokugawas are all shit characters.
Also this time I managed to win the Tenpo Crisis with time to spare.
Always end up having the religious fuck too powerful though.

>>2407193
Also forgot another question
How can I put Samurai in power and keep 50+ legitimacy? Big clout or just aligning my laws with their ideologies?

>wonder why my generals keep dying
>the game spams you with 50+ yo grandpas

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>>2407198
With a baseline autocratic monarchy you can have up to 170 legitimacy (full legitimacy chart not included in image related) if your ruler's IG is samurai and samurai are 100% of the clout.
A short version is you want an autocracy if your ruler is the right one but an oligarchy if they aren't. I find the army doesn't get much clout in a democracy but that's because they sort of fall off in all of my games. Maybe I'm not building an army the size paradox thinks I should.

Political concessions provide bigger clout boosts for the army than most other laws, remember that you need to focus on having the pops that will align themselves with the faction as +40% clout doesn't mean much if there's no clout.
Peasant levies is an exception because it's only appropriate in pre-industrial countries and makes a lot of aristocrats suddenly think they're a part of the army, because that's what the law is supposed to model, else it's entirely based on your population of officers and servicemen.

Interestingly servicemen, if conscripts, have a weight towards the TUs. If you underpay your army, that means more of your conscripts will want to be in the TU interest group. Presumably low-paid professional soldiers will just join the unaligned, and also get radical for having no money.

>>2407148
>welfare before depeasanting
clicking on shit is fun, but it's a really bad idea
especially poor's law, it gimps your lower classes making shit harder to reform

>>2407215
Yeah on Japan the army IG (Samurai) already start at 5%+ so its easy to give them concessions (I'm on the patch before they gave 100 authority cost for that, I will not tolerate this shit)
So I guess I have to increase their clout in any way I can (replacing Landowner/Daimyo generals with Samurai I guess) and lowering the Daimyo clout
And try to align the laws/leader ideology so its not too different from each other

>>2407217
>(I'm on the patch before they gave 100 authority cost for that, I will not tolerate this shit)

>create siege reform system
>[Everyone disliked that]
>add concessions
>[Everyone abuses the only part that works]
>destroy concessions
>[Everyone REALLY disliked that]
I hope someone mods a fix if they haven't already, not playing until I find one

>>2407219
They just need to keep the system as is, but heavily balance the numbers.
No one picks the other options because its way too outrageous
The "pls pass this law" option is ok, sometimes even if it regresses one of your laws. You can just pass it again later.

I'm abusing foreign investment as Japan and yoinking their shit back whenever my coffers fill up. However, you can't nationalize shit built by foreign companies? Why the fuck not, let me takeover that shit

>>2407221
You can't have an active investment rights treaty active, cancel that first and then you can nationalize it

>>2407224
This
But beware it fucks with relations and I'm not sure it's even relative to GDP

Is it true Bismarckianism is always the most OP strat?

>>2406646
Playing in East Asia in tricky because most "normal" options are a trap. You should ignore agriculture completely. Only build up natural resources and industry. East Asia is a Malthusian nightmare that can only be solved through heavy industrialization.

>>2406927
You have to periodically let your government construction queue go empty so the private industry can spend the money. It's really stupid and unintuitive.

>>2407294
>Malthusian nightmare
I'd ask for Malthusianism to be an early game ideology, like Jacksonianism, but I don't think any of the laws support its concept, there are some... challenging... materials surrounding it that outright state Britain's lower classes were replaced by the middle classes (and propagated their values) because birthrates were not at all how Victoria 3 models them, and probably most importantly for this game, Marx had bad things to say about it because it was popular.

>>2407320
Malthusianism isn't a political ideology, not as one traditionally thinks of one. Like for example, it has no opinions on how a government should be formed. Mathusianism is an socio-ecological model. I do think it should be implemented, but you'd have it parallel to the existing political system.

A Malthusian ideology would be pointless since it would be identical to Feminism.

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>brits lose control of part of their territory
>suddenly your troops are now cut off with no way back home
>they'd rather die in somalia than violate borders to walk back home

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>1890
>already exporting South African cars to the world
I really am just leeching off GB's tech and third-world resources

>Two Sicilies
>Sicily and Campania both have an eruption within 6 months of each other
Eruptions in general seem overtuned as fuck IMO. They happen all the time in V3 while IRL ones that matter are practically once-a-century.

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:)

>>2407700
NULL_STATE is my favorite location in the German "Empire".

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>game is almost over
>france still has 0 industry states with 400k unemployed/400k peasants
Why is the AI so bad at building? I'm single-handedly industrializing their country 1 state at a time

Giving away Foreign Investment rights doesnt seem all that bad. You can nationalize their shit once the treaty is over
>muh relations
its -1 per building level. On a 5 year treaty they will build what, 10 buildings?
>muh money
100k per level. Just dont debtmaxx early
>muh treaty duration
Of course you wont give it away for 25 years.

So I bought this stupid dlc just because I want the Japanese flavour nothing else the ship designer looks shit

>>2407810
It is shit
You either go the weakest options to inflate the navy
Or strongest options to kill shit
Or dont even bother because AI will never upgrade their ships until you kill the previous fleet
And troop transport is absolute cancer
>you can have 0.4 of a battalion in a fucking man-o-war
Lmao

>>2407812
Can you sell ships? That part sounded fun, I dunno why they don’t just keep these ideas simple and easy to execute instead of just bloatmazing all the time

>>2407823
its yet another multiplayer thing
AI is retarded and will never sell/trade theirs and pay pennies for yours

>>2407532
Have you tried violating borders?
It's a wartime button
You're in war
Yes you should be allowed to march through unciv territory and it's bad that you have to respect their fake country borders

>>2407812
>>you can have 0.4 of a battalion in a fucking man-o-war
A battalion is 1000 men. You can't fit thousands of men on a sailing ship. 400 sounds about right.

give me a fun nation to play

>>2408050
I only play Belgium, Japan, and Canada.

>>2408050
GrossGermaniumsImperialis

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>>2408050
russia

How do you convert your populations culture and religion? Is 100 years enough time to do that?

>>2408050
I honestly only find Japan fun to play, I always did in vic2 as well I think Japan just really captures the essence of the game

>>2408083
Use the edict and select laws that place pops in the correct tolerance tier.

>Is 100 years enough time to do that?
No.

>>2408076
> Victoria 3: State and Revolution - Immersion Pack
Literally named after Lenin's work.

>On the day of the decision to dissolve the Duma, when the court as well as the liberal circles were going through a paroxysm of fright, the tzar wrote in his diary: “July 7. Friday. Very busy morning. Half hour late to breakfast with the officers ... A storm came up and it was very muggy. We walked together. Received Goremykin. Signed a decree dissolving the Duma! Dined with Olga and Petia. Read all evening.” An exclamation point after the coming dissolution of the Duma is the highest expression of his emotions. The deputies of the dispersed Duma summoned the people to refuse to pay taxes. A series of military uprisings followed: in Sveaborg, Kronstadt, on ships, in army units. The revolutionary terror against high officials was renewed on an unheard-of scale. The tzar writes: “July 9. Sunday. It has happened! The Duma was closed today. At breakfast after Mass long faces were noticeable among many ... The weather was fine. On our walk we met Uncle Misha who came over yesterday from Gatchina. Was quietly busy until dinner and all evening. Went padding in a canoe.” It was in a canoe he went paddling – that is told. But with what he was busy all evening is not indicated. So it was always.
Post yfw you realized someone at Paradox, right now, is reading Trotsky and other Russian Revolution literature.

>>2408126
>Naval DLC and Japan pack
>No Russo-Japanese War content
Please add some in the Russia pack I beg you Paradox

>>2408130
>anno domini 2026
>gsg's still don't simulate bodies of water freezing in the winter and the importance of warm water ports to naval powers
I guess Port Arthur could be a treaty port?

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>game crashes
>reload from last autosave
>suddenly every political movement decides to revolt at once

Russia cucked me, 1880 as Japan I’ve taken Korea but the Russians managed to get a land border with it. I have a decent navy but my army can’t stand up to the Russians

>>2408332
>be china
>russia invades you
>lose all your land in 1 year
>attack russia with cars and almost double the army
>takes 15 years to push them all the way to germany

>>2408343
I don’t think I’ve got the mental bandwidth to play China

I see what they’ve done here with this imitation of Vicky 2, they’ve made it so that pretty much by about 1900 no matter what you do you’re almost certainly going to have a liberal revolution, you’ll be strong as fuck after it but that’s always the outcome

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Victoria 2 better?

I’m not saying this is a bad game, as far as paradox releases go these days this one’s actually pretty good I don’t know what it was like at release though I’ve only started playing it recently

>>2403296
RIght wingers use neo-liberal to describe the current Establishment, not as a synonym for capitalism. It also has an esthetic dimension to it, you recognize a neoliberal leader at first glance, it is this sort of fake cool no tie sleeves rolled up "Let's import millions of third worlders because muh GDP, also I love LGBTQ causes because it doesn't cost much to please the Left with that and let's hire more women because they ask less often for raises etc". Bean counting wrapped as progressism.

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>>2403828
I've paired an 9070XT with a 9800x3D to finally display Vic3 map comfortably at 1440p.

>>2405178
It is not just the power trip, I had a lot of fun having real world ambitions like redesigning the Middle East and Asia.

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>Daiymu dies
>imperial marriage journal just vanishes
>got to wait till his son comes of age to try again
does the dlc deal with this?

>>2408418
>not as a synonym for capitalism
Anybody who is not a Marxists/Commie has no reason to refer to capitalism, as it is really a buzzword made by Marxists/Commies. While you can say neo-liberals care a lot about monetary graphs going up, they are not are not for free markets.

I have been at war with Lucca for a year now.
They have one unit.
I have 500k, plus subjects.
They keep losing battles (fucking obviously) and then instantly re-entering battle without wiping, preventing me from advancing.
What the fuck am I supposed to do

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>>2408460
This is genuinely the most humiliated I have ever felt playing a Paradox game

>>2408463
Skill issue

>>2408460
set attacking tactic on your generals?

>>2408465
>said in only PDX game where there is no skill to war
>>2408466
They were attacking. In fact I think they were attacking literally nothing for the most part, at least judging by the battle list there.

anyway I finally won once I decided to try a simultaneous naval invasion on a desperate whim

>>2408460
That bug has been around for a while, you can just save and reload and it fixes itself

>>2408459
Capitalism is a real historical phenomenon as a successor to feodalism (where economy is mostly about owning some land and cultivating it, with very limited finance) and a good political shortcut for private property (inc. of means of production) and free (to some extent) markets.
And of course, it is very relevant to Victoria games...

>>2408477
No.

>>2408477
Feudalism isn’t a real thing. Medievalists don’t even use the word anymore.

Capitalism isn’t real either, economists don’t use the term, the only reason historians still use it is because they know dropping it would generate massive seethe from religious devotees of Marxism.

>>2408460
>>2408463
They hold a Thermopylae style pass. Millions of Germans are powerless against their superior geography.

I feel like the tech rate is abit slow, I’m at 1914 and nobody is even in the dreadnought era yet

>>2408709
so not only they broke AI university wise, you have a skill issue. truly cursed world

>>2408130
They said they didn't add it because scripting wars beyond the early game feels too forced considering the state of the world could be very different.

It would be cool if there was an event or JE the first time a non-European power wins against a GP. Maybe you need to to be considered a proper GP? Japan wasn't really taken seriously until the Russo-Japanese war, even 10 years pripor they got bullied by the euros into rolling back the terms of the treaty of Shimonoseki against China.

>>2408709
Skill issue in your case, but the AI doesn't build universities due to not being able to handle the economy now that they can't easily conquer and rely on nazinomics.

If i play as Sweden and control the strait. Since my market access/capitol is behind the strait, do my own trade centers get taxed and if so is ti on import/export or both.

>>2408805
Do I just spam unis everywhere then? I mean I’m already at 60% literacy

>>2408858
The best strat is generally to just build a huge stack in a single state in order to take advantage of throughput, preferably choosing a state that has high production of paper. You also benefit from exceeding the research cap thanks to technology spread.

>>2408477
No it isn't. Capitalism is not a system. The definition only refers to private property ownershup, which also existed under feudalism.

>>2408463
Lucca has a pretty nice encirclement there
They have the entire German army wrapped up in a neat little bow

Maybe try a naval >>2408467 glad to hear that worked. Wonder what was going on. I'd guess they were initiating battles that were assigned no army to defend, and that meant it couldn't add to occupations or something.

>>2408463
Why are you positive +40K income anon? You have a giant surplus you could be dumping back into your country there

>>2409189
>reee why aren't you in debt?
Settle down, Keynes..

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>>2408858
>I'm already at 60% literacy
I would recommend looking at how tech points work

The short version is tech is gained from unis and literacy
Unis can give you more points than your cap, which adds to researching techs other countries know but you don't (not that good if you're leading in research)

Literacy is gained from education access, which itself is gained from your schooling institution (remember it has to be an integrated state, not a territory) and SoL
Some jobs provide more education access but very few pops work these jobs
Universities DO NOT provide education access but qualifications, which I don't know if that has ever mattered
Promote Social Mobility helps if all your population is sat inside 2-3 regions and you have the authority to spare, it's crazy for small countries, and yes you might have noticed education has nothing to do with social mobility
An unhappy clergy HURTS this quite badly

Oh and another anon can tell me how I'm wrong when I think that public schools are busted and private schools don't ever catch up at every SoL level... and then it's the only one with literacy growth, and then it has fervor AND assimilation on top AND you start the game with it unlocked AND both goodguy factions want it over no schools (you may start with a school law so may need to revert it first)

Does Austria get to keep its unique laws upon forming Germany/the Danubian state/Central Europe/etc.?
The way the wiki is worded implies to me that it doesn't but I want to check

>>2409401
IIRC I kept their unique laws forming HRE but it has been at the release of the DLC so it might have changed since then

>>2409401
easiest way to check is to start in console mode, enact all the unique laws and then form germany after cheat annexing prussia
I don't have the relevant dlc so can't check for you

Is Indian Territory literally impossible with the rework to interests? You can only interact with USA, Texas, and Mexico.

>>2408534
Feudalism very much is a real thing, and we do use the word plenty as a broad descriptor of the system of devolved military and political power that evolved in Europe following the collapse of the Carolingian Empire. Any historian who denies the existence of that trend; pretends that it was not a broad, multinational phenomenon; or claims that the similarities between feudalism in Europe and similar systems in other parts of the world somehow weakens, rather than strengthens, the pro-feudalism arguement is a hack who can be safely ignored

>>2409205
The devs are socialists. Not shit public schools are objectively the best and the others are joke options.

>>2409758
I doubt Frederick the Great was a socialist. I'm pretty sure only lolberts disagree with this.

>>2409805
He's also an exception. Most premodern countries that bothered simply had mandatory education, which ended up mostly handled through parochial schools or private enterprises

It's the same with healthcare laws. Public healthcare is comically superior to all other options, so much they may as well not exist. The game has a very obvious statist bias.

>>2409928
>The game has a very obvious statist bias.
Much like reality itself.

>>2409636
Colonialism in the US needs a complete overhaul. Right now it is
>settled US territory conflated with shit in the ass end of the Rocky Mountains that absolutely was not settled but instead the era's equivalent of flyover country on the way to Oregon
>Indian Territory, which has no mechanics and instead is border gore for most of the game
>Mexican territory, which was nothing but a collection of missions north of the Rio Grande that got regularly raided by Comanche's to the point it was still an issue post-Mexican American war
>Canada's unsettled beaver trapping zone, which was so irrelevant they gave it up the second the US put pressure on it
And I'm not disparaging Canada or Mexico in particular. The area is fucked and completely contrary to reality. Everyone involved deserves mechanics, but instead we have to pretend it was simply 'unincorporated' territory.

>>2410007
It is quite a dilemma for a game dev to balance a game that is rooted in reality.