I dont know why, but I can't get the "action lock" to work reliably.
can or can't? or are you talking about the timer lock? If so then yes of course it works, you just waste a lot of time compared to just locking it yourself when you want with a simple click.
Nah, I meant the click. Right now when I try it (its middle mouse button, right?) it doesnt lock it at all.
did you change the setting? You need to change timer lock to action lock.
Ah, I see. Yeah, that works, not sure why both options arent on simultaneously, but I think I prefer the timer one as I seem to sleep less if I dont need to click it. Thanks though!
... a lot. You cannot imagine. So much more productive.
Slip, my autocorrect is on fire today
You just need to own the Suez canal (and the land it's built on), as well as the Suez Canal building itself having hired 90% (or higher) of capacity. The last part is the tricky one, as the land you've bought from Egypt doesn't really have that large a population or enough qualified people to fully staff the building. Promoting social mobility and incorporating the state is what I did to fulfill the journal entry.Explain what I need to do like I'm Michael Scott
I believe subsiziding only pulls from the workforce of the state it's in, but I could be wrong on that. From what I remember, I did that, but it still took a number of years, before the building was hired to capacity.
Yeah it does, but it still helps because it pulls people from other buildings in the same state towards that one.
Ah, right. Problem is that the strip of land you buy from Egypt doesn't have any buildings, when you buy it. At least it didn't in my playthrough.
No problem! Subsizing, as per the above posts should also help, but just not right away.
They could still be subsistence farming, right? I doubt the pops wouldnt be doing anything at all. :-o
They probably are (I don't have a game going with this setup right now), but I doubt a lot of them have the qualifications to be hired by the Suez Canal building. I think it's machinist and something else, that's needed.
Be ready for them declaring that quite often.Oh, America. Are you sure about that, buddy?
Italy (200 Battalion) declared the same war on me (US, 800+ Battalions) I think 5 times. We didn"t even have a border, so I just had to wait for them losing war exhaustion each time.
The first major spanner has been thrown into my works. A civil war broke out in Great Britain, and the rebels (the proletariat) won. The new regime then decided they didn't like Chile very much and kicked me out of the customs union with the British market. My GDP halved overnight.
Not sure where I go from here. Either buddy with Spain or France, or expand the Chilean market in South America. The latter sounds a bit more fun. I am going to need to consider seriously readjusting my buildings in the meantime - there's now a massive overabundance of clothing for some reason...
Alright, I was gonna keep going and actually finish the Ethiopia journal challenge, but I'm basically at "coast until end game" state power wise and it keeps crashing in 1894 so it's time for a new save, lol.
I would agree overall that the AI is too passive. The great powers don't really try and screw with the minor ones much; that's partially a smart realization that if they do, the other great powers will screw them right back, and partially just them not being aggressive enough. In part, it's also down to Paradox just making defense really really strong.
If I could somehow magic a game mechanic into being, it'd be information asymmetry. Right now, it's too easy to make the "right" decision in foreign policy. You know exactly how many forces your enemies can muster, you know what resources you can get by attacking... it's just too straightforward, IMO. Needs an (interesting) espionage system of some kind to create more deliberate fog of war. That, and some kind of logistical system to make it harder for great powers to send troops around the world at a month's notice. Shit's silly.
I would agree overall that the AI is too passive. The great powers don't really try and screw with the minor ones much; that's partially a smart realization that if they do, the other great powers will screw them right back, and partially just them not being aggressive enough. In part, it's also down to Paradox just making defense really really strong.
If I could somehow magic a game mechanic into being, it'd be information asymmetry. Right now, it's too easy to make the "right" decision in foreign policy. You know exactly how many forces your enemies can muster, you know what resources you can get by attacking... it's just too straightforward, IMO. Needs an (interesting) espionage system of some kind to create more deliberate fog of war. That, and some kind of logistical system to make it harder for great powers to send troops around the world at a month's notice. Shit's silly.
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Was playing as Finland, because my gf is from there and it seemed like a cool place to build up and while my people managed to become super-rich, I basically was balancing in and out of debt for the entire game, until I accidentally nuked my entire economy by passing an economic reform that just drove my already massive debt into the stratosphere. But I did manage to beat Russia twice and get my independence even if that first war seemed like something I definitely should not have won.
Also, man, I like the idea behind the tutorial, but sometimes it's pretty useless lol. I tried the tutorial at first and it was literally:
1. "Build a building here"
2. "Make this profitable"
3. "Upgrade a building there"
4. "Double your GDP"
Pretty sure doubling the GDP is a pretty big ask that would require a bit more steps in between, but oh well. And even better, after improving my GDP the game just straight up said "Now keep playing and more stuff will show up eventually". Paradox, this is not how I learn the game lol.
Also, man, I like the idea behind the tutorial, but sometimes it's pretty useless lol. I tried the tutorial at first and it was literally:
1. "Build a building here"
2. "Make this profitable"
3. "Upgrade a building there"
4. "Double your GDP"
Pretty sure doubling the GDP is a pretty big ask that would require a bit more steps in between, but oh well. And even better, after improving my GDP the game just straight up said "Now keep playing and more stuff will show up eventually". Paradox, this is not how I learn the game lol.
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If you're not playing one of the recommended tutorial nations you often don't even get that much, lol.
God save the modders:
Mod to make the traderoutes overview more compact. Just came out today.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881996099&searchtext=
Mod to make the traderoutes overview more compact. Just came out today.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881996099&searchtext=
Same for the market details:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881762225&searchtext=
And a more useful construction queue that shows the region:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881774859&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881762225&searchtext=
And a more useful construction queue that shows the region:
God save the modders:
Mod to make the traderoutes overview more compact. Just came out today.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881996099&searchtext=
That's great, condensing the list was the main UI thing I wanted to change.
Been playing the US colonizing Africa, and it's been extremely going my way, but this needs to change badly: having the area you are colonizing rise up against you, so you can annex them in a war basically effortlessly, and you skip the long slow part of colonizing. I ate up most of Africa in just a few years with this repeatedly happening, so no other major powers were able to get anything.
This is tremendous, in CK I never quite knew what to do because there was no clear goal, but at least in the tutorial in this its very clear about what to try doing, and also explains how to do stuff and why.
Started as Sweden as suggested, and working on the GDP goal. Any pointers appreciated, I'm currently going hard on logging and trying to reduce the price of iron by creating iron mines and importing it, but for some reason the trade routes keep becoming 'unproductive'.
Also runs great on my M1 Pro MacBook, even though its an intel binary. The Paradox games were near unplayable on the old intel laptops.
Started as Sweden as suggested, and working on the GDP goal. Any pointers appreciated, I'm currently going hard on logging and trying to reduce the price of iron by creating iron mines and importing it, but for some reason the trade routes keep becoming 'unproductive'.
Also runs great on my M1 Pro MacBook, even though its an intel binary. The Paradox games were near unplayable on the old intel laptops.
Some good mods posted, browsing through the workshop I found some interesting ones like fix the Oregon Treaty and Mexican Cession for US. Glad you can use mods and still get achievements now.
Anybody know of some way to juice the population of a state...? Or at least spike infrastructure. Doing a Sokoto run (good start, getting verrrrry nervous about the number of Great Powers inserting themselves into my business) is starting to get hamstrung by the fact that my only resource-rich state is also my lowest population one. 22 infrastructure with road maintenance on is not gonna cut it, and I can't wait until railways.
I sort of get the idea of what they're doing, as I've always found Paradox games are best learned by rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty. So conceptually, I understand the idea of building a ramp and then shoving the player off into the deep end. The problem is when there are so many dials to turn and levers to pull, teasing out cause and effect isn't always easy or intuitive, and they don't ever seem to build enough runway with their tutorials. They always sort of just shove you in.
I got there eventually with CK3 but that's probably because I had already gone through it before with CK2. This is my first time with a Victoria game, so I'm still in the process of teasing out the causes and effects. I'm mostly having a good time with it and I've made progress, in that I'm pretty sure I have the basic gist of what I need to be doing. It's just a matter of figuring out what I should be prioritizing and what I can put on the back burner that I still haven't quite figured out, and things seem liable to go sideways in a hurry.
List of useful mods
While I am at it, I might as well make a list of useful stuff:
UI Improvements
Better trade routes overview: More compact list Highly recommended
Better Market overview: More compact list Highly recommended
Better Construction Queue: Show the region name in the queue Highly recommended
Better Pop List: Show all Pops instead of only 3 Highly recommended
Better Alerts: Settings to have Alerts as single notification Highly recommended'
Better Building Grid: Adds weekly balance, employee capacity and buttons
Better Notifications: Filtering and sorting notifications
Better Outliner: Adds interest group approval, infrastructure balance and unemployment rate
Spreadsheet Outliner
Thicker Standard Font
Colourblind mode
Declare Interest Button on Top
More Autosave Slots
AI Improvements:
Better AI economy decisions
More player like /agressive AI
Events/History/Mechanic changes:
Proper Mexican Cession
Proper Oregon Treaty
No end date
Balancing Changes:
Double Tariffs for Mercantilism/Protectionism
Doubles the yearly infamy decay from 5 to 10
Puppets can do diplomatic plays
More Decrees for health, colonization, suppression, etc.
1% production increase per year to imitate company tradition
Production Chains:
10 New production buildings and trade goods
Fun Stuff:
Lovecraft country and pops
More state traits to differentiate traits more [currently mostly Europe]
Shattered World: Every state as a single country [Less stable]
Shattered World: Smaller countries at start [more stable]
Uzzy Could you threadmark/pin it in the OP?
UI Improvements
Better trade routes overview: More compact list Highly recommended
Better Market overview: More compact list Highly recommended
Better Construction Queue: Show the region name in the queue Highly recommended
Better Pop List: Show all Pops instead of only 3 Highly recommended
Better Alerts: Settings to have Alerts as single notification Highly recommended'
Better Building Grid: Adds weekly balance, employee capacity and buttons
Better Notifications: Filtering and sorting notifications
Better Outliner: Adds interest group approval, infrastructure balance and unemployment rate
Spreadsheet Outliner
Thicker Standard Font
Colourblind mode
Declare Interest Button on Top
More Autosave Slots
AI Improvements:
Better AI economy decisions
More player like /agressive AI
Events/History/Mechanic changes:
Proper Mexican Cession
Proper Oregon Treaty
No end date
Balancing Changes:
Double Tariffs for Mercantilism/Protectionism
Doubles the yearly infamy decay from 5 to 10
Puppets can do diplomatic plays
More Decrees for health, colonization, suppression, etc.
1% production increase per year to imitate company tradition
Production Chains:
10 New production buildings and trade goods
Fun Stuff:
Lovecraft country and pops
More state traits to differentiate traits more [currently mostly Europe]
Shattered World: Every state as a single country [Less stable]
Shattered World: Smaller countries at start [more stable]
Uzzy Could you threadmark/pin it in the OP?
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There is the greener grass campaign decree, but it is an issue I am struggling with as well.
People will migrate to regions that have works open from places with low employment. The difference in Living Standards also helps bring people in there. Regarding infrastructure, the best / only real way is getting railroads or ports. I think it is done as a design to ensure countries with big populations but that have low tech will have difficulties. So basically just a way to make some starts much harder.
Now if there could be a mod that adds the currently used / max infrastructure in the building macro... (currently it's only either in the state panel, which is a pain when you have a lot of states, or in the buildings tab as tooltip)Same for the market details:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881762225&searchtext=
And a more useful construction queue that shows the region:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881774859&searchtext=
Apparently the AI fix also drastically improves the economic side of the AI: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2880152075
Just started a new game with it, we'll see.
Mostly economy actually for that one, its also included in the list I made above. There is an AI mod for war/strategy stuff making AI more aggressive, but I havent tried that yet and it was only connected to other mods, so compatibility seems iffy.
Mod that increases the tariffs for mercantilism and protectionism, actually making protectionism a useful choice and allow you to protect your goods a bit better in mercantilism with a slightly higher tariff:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882116675&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882116675&searchtext=
There is an option on game start that sets the AI aggressiveness overall, and another specifically against other player.
Ok, so 20 years in: that AI mod is really working. Playing as France, GB has almost 100M more GDP, Austria and Germany are not far behind me (271M/186M (me) / 150M / 145M).
And speaking of Germany: Prussia is actually pursuing the unification, they formed the north german confederation like 5 years in and are gobbling up the remaining minors, despite my efforts to prevent that.
And speaking of Germany: Prussia is actually pursuing the unification, they formed the north german confederation like 5 years in and are gobbling up the remaining minors, despite my efforts to prevent that.
I really want to do a shattered world start with the better AI and see what happens if everyone has a fair start.
Thicker standard font:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882155032&searchtext=
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882155032&searchtext=
Managed to get war reparations from France in my current game - teach them to insert themselves into minor nation power squabbles, hah!
Anyway I have an extra 140k to play with a week now.
Anyway I have an extra 140k to play with a week now.
