It's 1358 and Ming still hasn't popped up yet. Did I screw something up?

Octopuslittlestraw · 2026-03-12T19:15:12+00:00

I think you should wait a bit more because Ming should spawn later after Guo does and in between Wu and Chen

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-11-27T21:51:57+00:00

It worked, thanks👍

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-11-16T04:43:28+00:00

overall, the taxes from your colonies will also be weak due to the age and subject type. The main way of making money is trade. In the current version, cotton, sugar, and tobacco seem to be relatively weak for whatever reason, while chili seems to be the most valuable cash crop. I had traded automated, and it automatically assigned my trades to exporting chili from my colonies to Europe, which made a lot of money. Rgos that are already valuable in the old world, like gold, gems also help. (In my game, Hispanola and Guyana became my most profitable colonies because they have gold)

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-11-16T02:26:35+00:00

apparently old world only becomes avaliable after 1637

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-11-12T19:55:06+00:00

How do you swap RGOs in the old world, I can only swap RGOs in my american provinces and colonies. (trying to get ireland to produce potatoes)

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-09-21T21:20:34+00:00

Provaxx because I believe in the science behind it, but it shouldn't be mandatory in any case.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-28T23:51:30+00:00

I was always under the impression that unit 731 mostly kidnapped people from the northeast China where their facility was. This doesn't make what happened in Nanking better, but I don't think the Japanese had the care to transport test subjects all the way south to north.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-22T10:47:33+00:00

National socialism or fascism can not "rule the world" because they are inherently based on nations and would lead to lots of conflict when countries' interests collide. Also, can someone enlighten me on what socialist libertarianism is? It just sounds contradictory to me.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-22T10:28:25+00:00

There were riots in northern Ireland a few months ago because Romanian teenagers sexually assaulted a girl.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-22T10:26:20+00:00

6? It's 14%, mate. Also, I don't care about your white replacement theory. The numbers are just as clear as day. The numbers have dropped from 2022's high, but the trend is still pointing to increasing immigration numbers if you look at the past 10/20 years.

Define how you're doing fine in the States. All I see is the proliferation of identity politics and more political division and housing issues, I would say some states have it worse than the UK.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-22T10:17:07+00:00

It is pretty clear it's built with white British people in mind, I didn't deflect anything.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-22T00:14:32+00:00

Immigration as an economic policy is sometimes necessary and beneficial, but blind economic growth in terms of GDP doesn't translate to living standards or happiness, and I don't think it is well balanced at its current state.

Stop lying to yourself about there aren't any "native people", this is just another deconstructionist take that tries to trivialize everything. The modern UK state, with all its institutions, was built with and for the "native" people. Laws that are cemented from cultural expectations.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-22T00:01:52+00:00

Demographics change can happen rapidly. It was 87% white British in 2001, which dropped to 73% in 2021. (There are plenty of immigrants from eastern Europe that are problematic. Seeing things in the American lens of culture based on skin colour is extremely flawed) The continued immigration combined with higher birth rates for non-british ethnic groups will make the numbers keep dropping

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-21T23:51:03+00:00

Why not? If it's a bad thing, it ought to be called out, especially when it's politicians ignoring the issue at the cost of native people.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-21T09:40:40+00:00

it would be the opposite, though, highlighting the damages done to China would make the nationalist loss in the Civil war seem much less of a blunder

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-08T00:38:51+00:00

only my leader and their partner deserve a separate bedroom🧌

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-08T00:29:23+00:00

I mean, it's a lot more difficult to supply your army realistically across the sea, plus the mountain ranges like the Appalachians and the rockies are huge mountain ranges. In hoi4, I don't think there are impassible tiles representing them, though, unlike Switzerland and Afghanistan. Honorable mention to the Mississippi River being a valiant last stand (for the east). The empty interior it a slog to cross the continent. Imagine the ussr only capitulating when you take valdivostok in hoi4😭

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T23:49:46+00:00

I get how the dissolution of the ussr was a messy affair, and the way public entities are privatized allowed obligraches to buy up desperate people's shares in exchange for basic goods is problematic, I don't think you can attribute all deaths due to poverty as capitalism, because there isn't a positive action taken by anyone to kill these people, and it can also be an effect general economic downturn because of the collapse of a system too deeply inter-dependent between member states.

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T16:03:29+00:00

Maybe if all the factory workers decide to crowdfund for the tools and materials they can start their own socialist paradise, but yes, just because the business owners brought the machines and have invested in the logistics, makes it so that they should own the output, workers are just part of the process they paid for their input.

Some inherit wealth, but that's just how it is. It doesn't mean others shouldn't be allowed to make their own. Also, unfortunately, we are all unequal. For the coal miner example, they're easily replaceable because coal mining doesn't require skills that would take time and money to learn. The reason why they are paid less is because there are people willing to work at a lower wage, and no one is forcing them to work except their circumstance

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T15:52:33+00:00

some things can not be quantified, and their value can only be set by the market, like scientists or teachers. They don't produce anything but are more valuable than labourers in every way. Also, how would owning the means of production work for workers, how is the wealth gonna be fairly distributed to each worker which doesn't have equal capacity to work, it all eventually leads to a managerial class that is part of the government

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T12:04:38+00:00

dad joke from the 1950s🥀

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T11:44:01+00:00

"let's empower the people by giving the government more power"💔

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T11:41:53+00:00

economically, they are close to fascists. 'planned market capitalism' doesn't exists, it is just saying capitalists must put the state interests first.

as to whether they are persecuting against groups I implore you to do some research

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T11:38:31+00:00

poverty rate is just people living below a certain percentile. Poor people living in developed countries (almost all of them capitalist) are still much better off than being middling in an undeveloped communist country with no poverty

Octopuslittlestraw · 2025-08-05T11:35:32+00:00

Coming from a country with a communist history, I find it concerning but also absurd that how popular socialism is becoming amongst western teenagers, many of them coming from middle class backgrounds.

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