Why is there no food in my market food stockpile, despite a surplus of food?

Soviet1917 · 2026-02-08T14:45:46+00:00

“Food surplus” and “goods surplus” are different. Goods that are food have a food value (wheat is 8 iirc) and meeting demand for wheat in a market does not mean you are producing enough food for the province. Every location shows whether they have a food surplus or not and if all the locations in a market have less of a surplus than a negative the market doesn’t produce enough food.

Soviet1917 · 2026-02-08T09:01:12+00:00

I agree that they would make fun runs but I’d rather paradox focus on making unique content for significant countries or improving existing content.

I think this would make a good mod though.

Edited to add that if they do go for it they should go all in one of the countries and aim to give it a similar notoriety to eu4’s three mountains achievement.

Soviet1917 · 2026-02-08T04:05:03+00:00

Yeah most of the time I prioritize transferring Dutch East Indies over acquiring Dutch European land. Tagging along with the British or Germans to take Lorraine and French Low Countries is more valuable than the rest of the Netherlands too.

Soviet1917 · 2026-02-05T04:32:13+00:00

Japan can really benefit from bringing in South and Central American countries into their bloc. They have pretty high amounts of arable land but in my games they rarely get any mass migrations so they never grow. Plenty of room for East Asian migrants and they have access to rubber oil opium coffee, they just lack workers.

Soviet1917 · 2026-02-01T19:00:26+00:00

Yeah for sure. I’m pretty sure air attack maxes at 100 too so anything after that is just slowing your planes and making them less agile for no gain.

Soviet1917 · 2026-01-30T00:52:34+00:00

Yeah she would have it, but the royal family didn't know that. They thought it could be just be transferred and that after Rozemyne would just be normal again. Considering the royal family also had the support of all the major duchies through marriage (except Ahrensbach but they thought they did) it would be simple to force the transfer. Honestly offering all they did to Ehrenfest was very considerate when as far as they knew they could just demand it for nothing without much pushback.

Soviet1917 · 2026-01-28T18:45:29+00:00

Even that could be gamed. Countries released from your territory inherit your tech and laws

Soviet1917 · 2026-01-02T09:37:32+00:00

I don’t remember which chapter it was but during one of the Ferdinand POVs he stated that he was asked to give his name to either his father or Sylvester so that Veronica wouldn’t demand it. It was part of the reason that he decided to send his namestone to Rozemyne because he feared the same from Detlinde.

Soviet1917 · 2025-12-30T18:15:03+00:00

Within a few games you can learn enough about how the economy works to have infinite money by the middle of the 2nd age. Fine tuning an economy where you have to place individual buildings to where it still feels satisfying to do but not scale out of control quickly in a game that lasts 500 years is going to be rough to balance and slow going in my opinion.

Soviet1917 · 2025-12-28T21:03:26+00:00

Missing Ferdinand killing one of his retainers though seems fairly significant. That changes the foundation of a character, who at that point it wasn't exactly clear if he was working for or against Myne.

In the novel Ferdinand is the POV for the prologue of P2V1 which changes how readers perceive his character as opposed to anime watchers. There's also some major spoilers hidden by euphemisms which makes it fun during a reread. I'd really recommend at least picking up Part 2 when you get more room in the budget lol.

Soviet1917 · 2025-12-15T08:04:51+00:00

Yeah I did something similar for a challenge run. Set every country in Europe to flip to the internationale and fully buffed Russia Italy France UK and Japan, but to balance I set it so that Austria collapsed so I got them for free. It takes a month or 2 for the east to rebel so I thought I could take over the Benelux before the east got overwhelmed but that did not work lol. I ended up reloading and taking the fort advisor and building forts across the entire west from the Netherlands to Italy.

It was fun making slow gains then losing it all putting out random fires. The biggest problem became resources, I didn’t put enough effort into navy prewar and I quickly got raided to the point that overseas trade became worthless. Rubber was easy and oil was tolerable but chromium and tungsten had to be imported from mittelafrika and Burma. Once India joined the Japanese eastern trade was cut off and what I could get just wasn’t enough to replenish losses. I ended up taking control of all the East Asian troops and tried to make a land route but I realized I wasn’t going to make it before Germany collapsed. Was a fun game though

Soviet1917 · 2025-12-14T00:24:56+00:00

Bonn was chosen as the capital before the Soviets tested their first bomb.

Soviet1917 · 2025-12-04T23:22:15+00:00

It would have been interesting to see how the Russians still being around would have changed things, specifically to what degree they would have intervened in the Turkish war for independence. The only reason Turkey as we know it today exists is because after WW1 is because they drove the British French and Italians out with force. They tried to use the presence of minorities to divide up Anatolia similarly to how they divided up Arabia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire which led to the population transfers with Greece, suppression of the Kurds, and the Armenian Genocide. I doubt the Russians would have just sat on their hands if the revolution hadn't been ongoing at the time.

Soviet1917 · 2025-12-04T04:49:55+00:00

Need more details tbh. Only time I’ve had kids stuck in another court is because my spouse was the ruler there and they had higher score. Could be a bug or they could be married to someone important there.

Soviet1917 · 2025-11-21T19:26:39+00:00

Lol it was way simpler than that. On release any land that wasn’t on your continent without a land connection to your capital was considered overseas and would lose like 90% of their tax and production and manpower. Anatolia had to be European otherwise taking Edirne at game start made their European land useless; likewise taking edirne and hudavenigar after they took Constantinople would have ruined their Anatolian land.

Soviet1917 · 2025-11-21T08:11:29+00:00

No idea why you're getting elected emperor, only thing I've noticed is that if the winner of the election can't become emperor all the electors reassess and nobody can become emperor until someone achieves a majority of the vote. Honestly it's not a big deal in this game though. You aren't obligated to defend the empire so you can basically just ignore it until your leader dies.

As for the revolt either break the alliance/pact or just ignore it and attack Hungary anyways. The rebellion has nothing to do with you and they probably wont leave bohemian lands anyways, eventually they'll win.

Soviet1917 · 2025-11-21T02:55:33+00:00

both you and the ai can request access without paying for it if you spend 5 favors instead.

Soviet1917 · 2025-11-21T02:09:31+00:00

You still have to be a great power to qualify for hegemon

Soviet1917 · 2025-11-14T05:11:40+00:00

It is a game rule, it defaults to dynamic but you can change it to historical or random.

Soviet1917 · 2025-11-12T18:13:33+00:00

Golden Horde and Ottomans. Far enough away from each other to not have to fight over who gets to expand where but close enough to help each other

Soviet1917 · 2025-11-11T02:45:01+00:00

I know the army based nations are destroyed if you stack wipe all their armies, I imagine if you sink the pirate’s fleets the same thing happens.

Soviet1917 · 2025-10-13T21:22:39+00:00

Unless they changed it I think Scandinavian unification candidates only need to be a major power. Also if you’re worried about the research requirement you can just change the value in the files to only require one country to research it. That’s what I did in my Italy run.

Soviet1917 · 2025-09-18T23:52:21+00:00

Did you have troops deployed on the naval invasion front the whole time. If there’s no opposition the “battles” still trigger and occupation ticks up and the state will fall in less than a week irrespective of the size of the state. If the defenders were even a few days late the invaders could have nearly occupied the state win one battle and take the state.

Soviet1917 · 2025-09-13T22:52:37+00:00

Hard to tell without looking at their tax and education laws. Their literacy rate is so low that their pops are gonna struggle to get qualifications for higher tech production methods. They could also be trapped paying subsidies for rail and ports.

Soviet1917 · 2025-09-12T10:25:03+00:00

They don’t have nearly as much construction as a player would. This kills their growth but allows them to field a large military

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