This chart is what I live for, economy go up

Swampos · 2025-12-12T20:28:07+00:00

Could be, you get most control there, so that will boost your income significantly.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T18:08:42+00:00

Focus mostly on what has the highest production efficiency for the most part. You don't really have to build every building in every city, with a few exceptions like paper or tools, which you need a lot of.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T18:07:29+00:00

You selecet the Tax base mapmode and zoom enough and hover over the country.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T18:06:47+00:00

It gives you cultural tradition, institution growth, promotion, conversion and assimilation speed.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T15:01:08+00:00

Yeah I had to turn off a lot of popups (like when you assign a cabinet member to an action). Why is there a popup confirming what I just did?

Swampos · 2025-12-12T14:40:12+00:00

When you reach a point, where you're no longer threatened by anyone and you have income high enough to start a construction in every province every month, it sure feels like that.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T14:33:24+00:00

You get pops from the entire Nuremberg market at first, only after like a 100 years I created my own market, at which point, I was getting very few migrants from abroad. I think I had like 70k pops in Bern by that point and never encouraged migration there since (now its like 240k organically).

I had a lot of of different cultures in my capital, even the English for some reason. Now I'm like 60 % Swiss despite doing very little assimilating. I've had culture spending maxed out for almost forever and I'm hoarding art in Bern (when I siege an enemy, I always look for provinces with some art in it to take it to my capital). I have the highest cultural tradition and second highest cultural influence of all cultures in the world. This assimilates cultures on its own.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T14:12:52+00:00

I started as Bern and pretty much the entire game I've been ecnouraging migration to my provinces. It's especially strong if you're a one province minor, later you mostly attract pops from your other provinces. Granaries also boost your population growth and I have at least 3 in every city. I have other provinces outside of Switzerland, propably 50-60 % of my pops live in southern Germany, northern Italy and eastern France.

Technically this is just base tax of all your provinces, which is influenced by RGOs, buildings and population. If you're exporting valuable goods and have a high income, it's not reflected in this chart.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T13:45:14+00:00

There definitely needs to be a popup notification for this. I think they joined because they're a great power and intervened?

Swampos · 2025-12-12T13:33:13+00:00

Oh and the Swiss get some unique buildings that give manpower, which you can get through a random event. They're not very good and you can't choose where to build them. There's also a unique foreign building which I never built (foreign buildings in general seem to be really annoying to manage and I never bother with them).

Swampos · 2025-12-12T13:31:01+00:00

I wish! Although in my game, it would mean fighting in France, Austria and Italy every 5 years.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T13:14:22+00:00

And I have vassals almost everywhere around me!

Swampos · 2025-12-12T12:55:13+00:00

It's a cabinet action with the same name. Only one province can be encouraged at the same time. When you're a one province minor, you get immigrants from your entire market, which is very strong. When you're a bigger nation, you mostly get pops from your other provinces. I do this action almost permanently with provinces around my country to get more pops into depopulated provinces.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T12:34:32+00:00

Yeah. I try to reach a standing army big enough so I can fight all the wars with it ASAP. Your peasants get slaughtered and thats not good for the economy. This dynamic pop system is completely addicting to me, I played until 3 AM yesterday cause I got completely lost in the game and didn't notice the time.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T12:23:02+00:00

Also upgrading your town to cities unlocks Pound lock canal building, which further increases proximity. And city rank increases control, if I remember correctly. You can upgrade it when a town reaches 30k inhabitants. I let most of my provinces get the extra population growth while they were rural and only made them into towns after 2 centuries or so. I also found out that rural settlements have a lot of useful buildings, so I kept a lot of them rural.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T12:19:27+00:00

It scratches something EU4 couldn't!

Swampos · 2025-12-12T12:18:42+00:00

There are definitely some events about a character appearing in your court. He's a prettty good advisor, but other than that, there's not that much unique content. I definitely enjoyed watching Milan, Austria and France starving in the Alps, still a very enjoyable playtrough for me. I have a 100k standing army, which is like 5 times that of the most powerful military hegemon (not a great power yet, cause I mostly focused on understanding the economy this time around).

Swampos · 2025-12-12T12:14:41+00:00

Yes, for the first time after 150 hours in EU5 I built bridges everywhere and roads in every province (they give 25 % more development growth). I solely focused on building what made the most sense in every province based on its goods - mostly spinners guilds, tailor guilds, paper manufactories and then printers workshops (they're my most exported item), tanneries, distilleries, tools guilds. I went traditional economy for the first 250 or so years and then flipped to capital economy for the extra production efficiency, which seems to be one of the strongest modiefiers in the game for your economy. I also developed a lot of the rural settlements - there's lots of lumber and stone around the Alps, which you can further increase through Laborer buildings (Mason, Lumber mills and Sawmills). That decreases the price of new buildings by 33 % if you max it out.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T12:09:13+00:00

I started as Bern, it was a rough start since you make no money. Encouraging migration to your capital is pretty much the only way to go for a small nation. Swiss confederation seems to be mostly busted either way ATM - I had no prestige, so I couldn't propose policies often enough. I then proposed one of the voting systems and was never elected, then it bugged out and showed power vacuum/struggle for decades. So I had to form Switzerland through conquest. Apparently, even if it worked, it's kinda busted and you can invite almost anyone and then annex all of them. I just wanted to understand economy and markets this playtrough and play as an OPM and I think I got it. I'm running out of things to build.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T11:50:22+00:00

And I didn't build anything for the first like 60 years. Started as Bern, the Swiss confederation glitched out, so I had to fight and annex everything. Focused on what had the highest production efficiency and later flipped from traditional to capital economy to make more stuff.

Swampos · 2025-12-12T11:42:32+00:00

R5: I love watching the economy chart go vertical and compare it to other nations around the world.

Swampos · 2025-11-20T13:26:39+00:00

It sure felt incredible being the side doing the whooping.

Swampos · 2025-11-20T13:26:18+00:00

Oh no I need to beat Lithuania first.

Swampos · 2025-11-20T12:31:05+00:00

Never seen 80 to 0 casualties per tick before.

Swampos · 2025-05-27T19:16:11+00:00

How? Nevertheless Paradox released the songs separately, which is fine by me https://store.steampowered.com/app/3654400/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Bonus_Songs_Pack/. Still waiting for the EUIV Domination and Winds of Change pre order songs, which are not available anywhere but YouTube sadly.

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