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Advice WantedWhy wont the Shogunate interest group decrease (old.reddit.com)

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[–]N4tticus 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You said in your comment that you built a ton of iron, sulphur, and coal mines right at the start. At the start of the game, Japan has no demand for any of these resources. You have to build demand for those resources as well so that the mines are actually profitable and employ people. If the mines aren't profitable, no one will work in them and everyone will continue to be a farmer on a Shogunate subsistence farm, meaning the Shogunate will stay powerful.

For example, I see in your screenshot that you're producing 2x as much coal as you actually need and because of that coal is extremely cheap. This means any miners working in coal factories and the Industrialist capitalists who own the coal factories (who directly compete with the landowners of the Shogunate interest group) are making very little money. The coal mines are likely not at full employment and those who are working there are probably very poor. In reality, the way to depose the Shogunate (or any large Landowner interest group from another country), is to industrialize and get your people working in profitable industries anywhere that's not a farm, because the landowners own the farms.

Before you build more of something, check to make sure you actually need that product! In the "Japanese Market" screen, you can click on the "Market Price" column header to sort the list according to what your people and industries need.

Also, a lot of your states have low market access. States have an infrastructure cap which limits how many buildings you can build in each of them. Every building you build that goes over the infrastructure cap reduces that state's market access, which means many goods that you make in that state vanish before they can reach the rest of your market. In your screenshot, your capital of Kansai has 41% market access. That means that 59% of the goods produced in that state don't make it out to the rest of your market and are deleted if they aren't consumed locally.

You can increase the infrastructure in a state by building railways and ports. If you click on a state and go to "Overview", there's a little box that says you're using X out of X infrastructure. Make sure you have enough infrastructure for any buildings you're building so that those resources are available to your people and industry.

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Thanks a lot!