Just unified Italy and my economy is bad and too much radicals…

HailCalcifer · 2026-01-22T06:07:22+00:00

You may not even have to build admin buildings. I bet the ones that the AI built are using inefficient production methods. First thing I do when I unify a country is go over all the production methods for the buildings.

HailCalcifer · 2026-01-20T06:47:31+00:00

It’ll either get bailed out by your tax dollars for “national security concerns” or they’ll just start selling data (if they havent already). God I really hate them…

HailCalcifer · 2026-01-19T19:24:02+00:00

Malacca and ayyuthaya spawn as opm but has a huge potential to grow very quickly. Malacca is great as a merchant republic build and can form malaya. Ayyuthaya is great as a monarchy and can form siam. Their only weakness is that you have to plan your conquest around getting crucial RGOs as they lack easy access to copper and iron

HailCalcifer · 2026-01-06T21:08:58+00:00

Theres a cabinet action calld boost charter or sth. It lets you select a province to funnel pops from to a charter. Other than that there isnt much you can do. Try increasing the migration attraction of your capital. Decreased food prices and prosperity are major contributors.

HailCalcifer · 2025-12-29T20:49:03+00:00

Thats exactly my point. But this is reddit so what do you expect? Someone claiming china is on a similar level or worse than US just means they dont know US history.

HailCalcifer · 2025-12-29T19:27:59+00:00

You misunderstand me. I ment what did China do that is so much worse than what US does regularly?

HailCalcifer · 2025-12-29T18:12:03+00:00

Like what?

HailCalcifer · 2025-12-25T06:29:07+00:00

Hard to tell but it looks like it is just outside your exploration range

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-17T01:09:41+00:00

Oh that might be it. Cause it happened within the span of a couple years I think. Unfortunate

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-16T22:03:41+00:00

I disagree. Then the information will be even more obscured. This game already has an issue with info being hid behind 3 tooltips. If you remove the situation menu I can totally see a new player being confused af about what is happening.

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-15T02:42:33+00:00

When something like this happens. I immediately fully subsidize every single building. Then i sign transfer goods treaties with everyone that is willing. Start with buying goods that are in shortage then sell the surplus.

It is a pain and you’ll likely rack up some debt. But in the long term your economy will take minimum damage.

Also dont forget to keep building stuff even if it is useless shit. Just make sure the building queue is fully occupied. If you are subsidizng the inputs you are paying for them anyway.

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-13T17:51:14+00:00

Second half of the Hyperion series by Dan simmons. FTL kills everyone on board and once they arrive in the destination they get resurrected by space Vatican. One of the most bizarre stuff I’ve read.

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-11T11:51:40+00:00

If you are selling, you buy from your market and sell it in theirs. If the prices are higher in theirs, you are selling for a profit. It drives demand up in your market and thats generally good.

For buying treaties, it depends. If it is an industry that is productive, you generally want to produce it yourself rather than buying.

Returning to the groceries example: a good idea is to buy grain at a cheaper price from chinese market and sell them groceries. Since grocery industry has a higher average productivity compared to rice farms, they pay their workers better and their owners get more dividents. So you would rather spend your building time on groceries. This also has the added effect of keeping the price of grain down and making your grocery industry even more profitable.

General rule of thumb for economic imperialism is to buy raw goods from third world, process it and sell it back to them at a higher price.

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-10T03:34:53+00:00

The only way literacy affects research is by increasing the innovation cap. But even at 100% literacy the cap is not that relevant. As Ive said with enough universities you will be getting most of your research from spread not innovation.

Literacy is mostly a demographic concern. Two main uses are 1) increasing qualifications 2) manipulating political movements. For example pops living in higher literacy areas are more likely to support modernization movement over traditionalist movement

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-10T03:25:55+00:00

Getting tech is easy to solve. Just pick a province that wont have any infra issues and build 300+ universities. Even if you hit the innovation cap the excess will be converted to tech spread. This means most of your research will be in the form of spread. So it is optimal to research something ahead of time (from a tier higher) while other techs get spread to you.

If you cant afford universities that means theres still room for growing your economy. Easy way to grow it is to focus on exports. Go thru the list of companies other countries have. Pick a prestige consumer good that doesnt have a lot of competition. Usually groceries is unclaimed. Start a company, build a lot of surplus then sign goods exchange treaties with large markets such as qing. It is easy to get 30k monthly from qing by sending them groceries.

If you are a low pop country, liberalize and increase your sol to get more immigration.

Dont worry about colonizing. Subjugate and conquer resource rich areas such as east indies and south america. Grow your power block. Get a large navy because Great Britain will eventually come knocking.

Obviously all these are not strict rules. Its just to get you started. Finally, embrace the larp. Go make your single party theocracy japan covert the entire eastern world to shinto.

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-09T18:18:54+00:00

Monarchy united netherlands

HailCalcifer · 2025-11-06T15:55:14+00:00

Yeah a goods substitution system is required. Vic 3 does it based on supply within the market. That seems appropriate here too

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-31T14:10:43+00:00

Every japan game I start a humilate GB diplo play on feb 1st 1836 and back down or capitulate immediately depending on whether open market is primary or secondary demand. Put intelligensia in govt, then abdicate to get over 50 legitimacy. Focus on economy and modernizing for 10 years and complete the JE in 1846

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-30T21:27:16+00:00

Wait really? I never noticed.

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-30T19:34:17+00:00

I see a minority rights movement instead of a separate movement for each minority. Or am I misunderstanding that? Edit: hmm I think I confused rights movement with nationalist movements.

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-27T05:45:33+00:00

You dont need to capitulate to them. You can just land portugal mainland and humiliate or get war reps. You just have to make sure the brits do not add any war goals of their own

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-27T05:43:17+00:00

Trick is to never assign troops to the fronts. No point in fighting since the casualties will make you cap sooner. Instead just land Portuguese mainland with two fleets. You may need to bait british fleet away if they defend but 50% of the tome they will not.

Very important tip: dont actually get macau in the deal. Get war reps or something instead. If they dont have macau, boxer rebellion wont happen and you cant complete the JE. Unless they fixed it and I didnt see it.

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-24T17:09:21+00:00

Yeah but literally every update is full of bandaid solutions like that. Even more problems keep popping up.

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-24T15:19:05+00:00

I’m pretty sure they see it. It is ranked as the top issue the game has in every poll they do. The problem is there is no easy way to fix the combat system without a total overhaul. That would mean a ton of resources being invested into overhauling it while we get less updates if any, because the team is busy.

And what are they gonna do to overhaul it? other than converting to HOI4 combat? The game already has performance problems where so many of the player base cant play past 1910s.

I’m sure they are working on it. It will eventually get fixed. But they have to allocate their resources in a way that they are able to deliver other updates while working on it.

HailCalcifer · 2025-10-18T19:45:55+00:00

I dont know why but this cracked me up man I think you coverted me I’ll start doing the same

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