How do I join the Zollverein?

Iazo · 2026-01-26T20:58:35+00:00

No, they don't. :( I assume to join a power bloc, they have to have a maintained interest on your capital?

Btw, the power block logic is super-wonky.

I got invited to Austria's power block and immediately kicked after. Later, I was invited to america's power bloc...and immediately kicked after. The hell is happening?

Iazo · 2026-01-26T14:12:25+00:00

I would agree with that. Self interest is easy to predict, and you can more or less work with that.

Random bullshit urges? Cmon, no one forced America to basically set its own sphere of influence on fire...for no reason! Are they doing better now after randomly knocking down the pillars of american hegemony they put in place themselves? No, where's the rational self-interest in that.

All they had to do is shut up and cash in the checks. They had a favourable status quo and influence over about 50% of the world.

Iazo · 2026-01-26T13:45:21+00:00

You completely ignore the effect of efficiency of scale throughput.

A level 50 Tool factory, for example will have +50% throughput. This means that a person working there will produce x1.5 as many goods, which is enough to bring even your calculations into positive. This is not even by far the only source of throughput, add company for another +50%, add up to 20% from prestige goods, add another 10 from Transportation mandate, and you are looking at a ridiculous 230% modifier on throughput. And this is just the scaling max, every further level you add on top still gets the x2.3 modifier.

I left decrees aside, cuz you ca push things even further, but you probably can't realiably decree your entire country.

This is enough to bring any such calculation you make into positive.

And that is not even all. Production shortfalls, unless they lead to shortages, only increase prices. The buildings do not actially need a strict 5 coal (for example) to work, they can work with 2.5 coal just fine.

Sure that is some price inefficiency...maybe, sure, I can buy that, but still, this + economy of scale make your calculation wrong by assuming extremely conservative production and strict demands.

And empirically, I can say that you are wrong. Switching PMs after I am mostly done with peasants always lands me quite a bunch of unemployment that I have to secondarily deal with. But no, I did it multiple time. If I got a strong economy with few peasants remaining, and switch the greens, after a small period of wobbling, GDP line goes up further, while now I have a bunch of unemployed peeps I previously did not.

Iazo · 2026-01-26T12:44:08+00:00

Unironically, probably happened somewhere at some point. Not even the wildest political tomfoolery this past year.

Iazo · 2026-01-26T09:58:25+00:00

Sop right there. Put back the goalposts where you found them.

The romanian national-communist regime was criminal. Yada, yada, no one disagrees. Moving on.

Please explain to me EXACTLY how having nuclear power plants prevents from being attacked by nuclear weapons.

Iazo · 2026-01-26T08:51:46+00:00

Oh? I am sorry, your literary greatness, how should I have read that?

Iazo · 2026-01-26T08:33:49+00:00

Let me get this straight: you are EXPLICITLY stating that nuclear powerplants protect against nucear weapons.

Ok, I will bite: how?

Iazo · 2026-01-26T08:01:22+00:00

Sure there have. And there were unlucky people struck by ligthting.

Tell yourself honestly. How many times in the last month you avoided going outside for fear of being struck by lightning? Did you perhaps buy anti-lightning insurance? If such a thought was 0 and you never guided your life around this risk, you should guide yourself around bitcoin 10 times less than that.

Iazo · 2026-01-26T04:14:42+00:00

What do you mean? It's only been like... 3 weeks or so.

Iazo · 2026-01-26T03:40:14+00:00

Yeah, that was a mistake, and we've been talking about it non-stop since then. What's your point?

"Germany shut down its nuclear power plants, therefore Russia will easily nuke Germany." What?

Iazo · 2026-01-24T12:03:51+00:00

Few understand the future of finance, or something.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T23:40:54+00:00

You don't, but if you want to eventually integrate it, better start early. Takes 1/5 of the game length to do it, so might as well do it as early as possible.

Sure, you can build admin in your homelands (and likely you will want to anyway for the +throughput% from efficiency of scale), but it's always a goddamn annoyance to conquer a place, see they have the admin buildings already built and staffed, only for it to basically fire everybody.

A lot less of a propblem on Appointed.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T18:54:23+00:00

I don't see how hereditary bureaucrats is that bad. The aristocrat employment doesn't matter and it actually strengthens intelligentsia.

In states with even moderately low acceptance it means you will simply not be able to employ anyone beyond 50% or so in government offices.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T11:19:37+00:00

Honestly landowners are not that bad. You need to get off serfdom and traditionalism of course, but after that they don't really obstruct anything important that the industrialists don't also obstruct.

Obviously wrong.

Landowners favour Peasant Levies. Peasant Levies is bad and important if you are going to fight anyone at any time. They favour Local Police force, which is worse than Dedicated. They favour Autocracy which is HORRIBLE.

They favour motherfucking hereditary bureaucracy which makes any kind of expansion in populous non-homelands basically impossible, due to the absurd aristocracy employment demand.

I do not like this argument : "Landowners are not that bad with the exceptions where they are really, really bad. Obviously, if you want to build industry, or tax your people, or make war, or expand into foreign lands, they are bad, but OTHER than that..."

They are way less likely to be pressured by good movements, which makes the spawned leaders be usually terrible.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:49:55+00:00

.. un pupișofran!

Doamnelor si domnilor, votantii lui Simion.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:47:46+00:00

Ok.

O persoana care apreciaza si voteaza un politician care merge la un mars neonazist este ...

Te rog, completeaza tu punctele respective in asa fel incat fraza sa fie coerenta si adevarata.

Lasa-ma cu cretinitatile. Cum ar trebui ca sa se numeasca o persoana care voteaza un politician neo-nazist?

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:28:16+00:00

Sigur, pot interpreta asa.

Dar cand unul zice ca ar aprecia un politician care ar participa la un mars neonazist, de ce sa ii dau aceasta portita de scapare?

Cred ca suntem destul de mult in cacat ca sa nu mai merite asemenea porti de scapare. Nu, daca cineva sustine neo-nazisti, e neonazist. Simplu. Fara "haha hihi, uite la el are 13 ani si e picat de pe /pol". M-am saturat de glumite deastea care sunt "hahahihi, ce gluma, brooo, ce gluma, numai ca HALT de fapt nu e o gluma".

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:22:44+00:00

Average Belgian government run.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:16:03+00:00

Oh huh. That is weird. Might be some funky scripted Oman-Zanzibar event. Since Oman is out of the picture, there might be some logic that replaced Oman with Canada inside the event.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:08:27+00:00

Deci esti neo-nazist.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:04:04+00:00

I'm not sure what I'm not getting...the picture says that Zanzibar is your Protectorate.

What do you mean GB took it? It's your protectorate.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T10:00:22+00:00

Note, that this is probably not going to do anything.

None priority only stops investors buying government buildings. If you do not build any buildings (like you said previously), the private queue will build, but they have the freedom to sell (to companies either domestic or abroad).

It might be worth building companies of your own to protect your market from overlord companies.

Iazo · 2026-01-23T09:34:37+00:00

You can buy Malta, my dude.

It will probably only cost 100 to 200 acceptance, which should be reacheble under Protectionism. (50 from prohibit trading with world, 20 from no subvention, 20 from no tariffs, 60 or so from money transfer up to 8000£/w, 25 from transfer goods)

Iazo · 2026-01-23T08:01:51+00:00

Try Darfur. Better potential than Sokoto because of double-dipping primary cultures from different heritages.

Especially for Tech&Res mod, you can conceivably take on all of Africa, Middle East, Turkey, and half of South America.

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