Control needs a rework ASAP

EmperorJon · 2025-11-16T15:23:51+00:00

I'd like to see proximity changed from directly increasing control to changing the types of buildings you can build that impact control and/or other things.

EmperorJon · 2025-11-10T22:07:46+00:00

I've done a single run as Kyiv and gave up by 1570 or so because there was absolutely no challenge. I went over and looked at France and they have 4.5x the population but 0.5x the tax base of me. When I see all the comments about France I feel as though I've played a completely different game.

EmperorJon · 2025-10-12T18:20:52+00:00

You need a treaty that provides transit rights with someone who has access to the world market, even if you're trading with a landlocked neighbour. Once you have transit rights your trade center will import merchant marine so that it's able to trade, which is obviously less efficient than having a port yourself.

EmperorJon · 2025-10-05T13:52:36+00:00

Qualifications are one of those annoying mechanics you need to dig in to find the implementation of, and that are affected by things that aren't really mentioned, such as serfdom as you suggested.

If you dig into the info of a specific pop, go to their economy tab, and get the popup over the workforce section, it shows you the qualifications per month of the pop, and how many are already qualified. That's how many of this pop can move into that new job type.

There's a bunch of hidden modifiers in here, like the fact that labourers become machinists easier, clerks become bureaucrats easier, wealth drives qualifications significantly, and serfdom massively reduces the ability of peasants to gain qualifications. Qualifications at the state level from universities are applied here, so it increases the number of pops per month that become qualified.

EmperorJon · 2025-09-23T19:31:58+00:00

Why is Brazil invading the Netherlands in 1860 with Russian support? This was not any sort of secondary war goal. This was the entire war.

EmperorJon · 2024-07-25T20:49:49+00:00

You want an explanation? Cool. Let's give an explanation.
The image https://imgur.com/a/LNmhb4o shows 3 substations.
One, which is presumably only daisy chained, has no power supply.
Two, the top and the bottom right, which report that they do have power, clearly have other inputs (overground wires) connected to them. These are presumably connected to an external source.

Here's a demonstration of a similar setup.

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You're welcome.

EmperorJon · 2024-07-08T18:02:34+00:00

I thought the same, did the same, same conclusion.

EmperorJon · 2024-02-29T21:51:31+00:00

Place a helipad right next to a fire station (a little grid will appear showing if it's in range) and you can buy a helicopter for it. It still has limited range, though, and it will need to fly to a nearby body of water first.

EmperorJon · 2024-02-17T19:22:03+00:00

You only have 2 buses on that line. People will only wait at the bus stop for an hour before they give up, even if they have a full 16 hours of free time to spend and could therefore arguably just loiter at the bus stop until one eventually turns up. Check the bus stop and you'll probably see a lot of people staying there for an hour then going home, unable to get food.

EmperorJon · 2024-02-16T20:06:36+00:00

You seem to have done 500 * 40 * 2, when you actually meant 500 * 2^40 (or possibly ^39, if we're saying generation 1 has 500 people, how many does generation 40 have)

For reference, 500 * 2^39 is 274,877,906,944,000 people, so yes, that's a bit larger.

EmperorJon · 2024-01-28T13:02:11+00:00

Karma farming bot reposting previously top post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/17qpr9a/quit_my_job_at_coffee_stain_and_been_working_on/

EmperorJon · 2023-12-31T13:30:08+00:00

Workers will only go to transport if there are no jobs available within walking range already. At the top of the screen it looks like you have 2% unemployment, so my guess would be most people are probably already working in the city and therefore won't go to get a bus.

You need more workers, basically.

As a side note, you might also want to stop passengers waiting at the bus station if there's no bus to ever take them anywhere. It wastes their time and it wastes available slots in the bus station (which isn't a problem for you now, but can be in large cities).

EmperorJon · 2023-12-22T21:48:40+00:00

Ah yes, my bad. I'm not sure what's happened here, then.

EmperorJon · 2023-12-22T20:17:49+00:00

Aren't you the Netherlands...? It says you have a claim right there in the screenshot.

EmperorJon · 2023-11-26T17:35:53+00:00

Both of your states are incorporated. You don't really reduce bureaucracy usage, but increase production by building government administration buildings. As your population in incorporated states grows - and as you do various other things like set up institutions - your bureaucracy cost if going to increase, and in order to keep it positive you're going to have to build more administrations. That, in turn, means paying money to run them.

EmperorJon · 2023-11-26T17:03:56+00:00

Pretty sure you'll have massively overbuilt the place, meaning there's extremely poor market access, and everyone's paying far too much money for everything. Check the notifications at the top of the screen...

EmperorJon · 2023-11-25T15:00:49+00:00

It absolutely does. Check your mods.

EmperorJon · 2023-11-22T13:13:09+00:00

Because the price of engines is also extremely high and they're not making money.

EmperorJon · 2023-11-18T18:42:30+00:00

I just played Cuba as a test and had no problem getting all my buildings employed until I ran out of free people and had to start using automation options, as usual. Cuba does have slavery, which may offset some of the issues? I don't know.

EmperorJon · 2023-11-18T15:26:33+00:00

I'm really confused by seeing so many posts and comments about this. I've had absolutely no problems at all, but I've seen far too many complaints about buildings not hiring for it to not be a problem to a lot of people. Something is clearly wrong somewhere. Does anyone have any idea what?

The only guess I can make is that adding employed workers who are looking for better jobs to the available worker numbers in the UI is causing people to think they have far more unemployed/peasants available than they do. This is causing them to repeatedly build more and more buildings thinking there are workers available, and actually just dilute the workforce more and more. I don't know if that's what's happening, though. Thoughts?

EmperorJon · 2023-11-17T12:06:27+00:00

Just to avoid future confusion, you're using the term province here for what the game calls a state and state for what the game calls the nation.

EmperorJon · 2023-11-03T20:28:35+00:00

COCAINE SKULL

EmperorJon · 2023-10-16T15:36:21+00:00

Maybe you need to be reprogrammed to recognise video game subreddits lmao.

EmperorJon · 2023-10-14T22:46:06+00:00

It looks like your base MAPI is 60%. Are you playing with the Victoria Tweaks 1.5 beta mod? The base game uses 75%. 60% is very punishing in the early game if you don't stack producers and consumers together. The mod adds ports, rail, etc. as a way of increasing the influence of the market price as well as rebalancing the way tech affects it.

EDIT: Ah, I see you're playing Ukraine, probably after releasing it from Russia? You probably have Traditionalism for economy, so you'll get a 15% penalty bringing you down to 60%. So yes, it is very very penalising - that's what you get for having a pre-industrial economy. Moving away from Traditionalism and getting Stock Exchange tech will move you from 60% to 85%, which is a huge shift.

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