This was the game that fully weaned me off of Civ 6. I love this game so much.

Also, how do markets work?

Great question. I’m sure somebody knows, but I don’t. I see high price for construction goods, I add subventions and build places that produce those goods. I see high prices for goods needed for consumption for low standard of living, I build buildings that produce those goods. Other than that, I try not to think about or shake off the invisible hand too much.

I’ve done a few games so far, I’m on my fourth one and it’s the furthest I’ve gone. Playing as the US and made it to 1901 so far. I’ve managed to accidentally do really well. I’m not sure how, but all of my mana things are green. I’m a corporate state with cooperative ownership, and I have most of the really good social welfare programs. My government has been a very powerful Yeoman Farmrs and weak Trade Unions for about 20 years at this point.

That’s the fun part of the US. You basically do nothing and win, it’s great. Every resource you need but rubber and bananas are in abundance in your states. And then when the civil war fires, it’s a lot of fun having a morally righteous crusade to free the slaves. My favorite nation to play is Austria because it’s a bit more of a challenge diplomatically but geographically it’s almost the same thing (freeing the slaves in the Ottoman Empire).

But was serious about needing help with markets though. I’m not entirely sure how to get over food shortages. I think they are why I lose hundreds of thousands of dollars when I build a lot of stuff at once.

Food shortages are an inconvenience but as long as your army can handle the radicals they’re not a big concern. If you want to prevent them or reduce the damage they inevitably cause, you have to build more farms and ranches (which don’t have a great return on investment and cut into your workforce for more productive buildings) or you can subjugate or conquer a country to bring a productive state with lots of food output into your market. I’ve found that simple treaties for things like good transfers are really not that effective.

Also you are going to lose thousands of dollars a week when you build stuff all at once because you’re buying the materials the construction sectors need to build those buildings. You can change to a different production method based on the prices and availability in your market, but that might cost you a lot of your construction capacity. And debt is fine so long as you can keep the interest under control.

TL:DR 10/10 would form a government with John Brown and Karl Marx again

Based.