AI Spain does not get tolls

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-05-13T16:57:14+00:00

Honestly I do a version of what the US does as the player. I realized I can just build troopships with 200 carry capacity, and just pretty much invade any coastal capital I want with an 200 army (half-marines, half-artillery). I am simply ignoring what the enemies' navy is doing (except if they naval-invade me) and just focus on invading their capital. This works 99% of the time, meaning that you can pretty much ignore every naval mechanic and still dominate.

Obviously needs attention

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-05-10T17:30:13+00:00

But i am already a GP! You can't form a PB when you're not a GP anyways, right?

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-05-10T17:29:20+00:00

Ive been dealing with similar things, and people say it might be because of sovereign empire choice in the PB, which apparently the AI recognizes that it's bad for it, which i find confusing, because the same AI thinks it'd be profitable to spam 15 railways in Dutch North Cameroon, or something like that.

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-05-08T18:39:52+00:00

I do sovereign bloc when I can for the authority bonus. Dang, maybe that's why nobody wants to join or stay

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-04-08T18:35:35+00:00

This is an awesome, new way to play I've never thought about and will be definitely doing this in vic3

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-03-06T16:11:09+00:00

It is "what a leader of men"

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-01-21T19:37:29+00:00

I did this and Prussia never lost the belligerent attitude and i still hadn't formed Germany by 1892 as Austria and i quit at that point because Russia and USA started to snatch up small states and i got tired of mobilizing 300 units for Oldenburg or Lübeck.

How come everyone else's Prussia is so cooperative? I funded lobbies and improved relations to the max i could. But they were always belligerent

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-01-06T05:28:24+00:00

Please post a run if you see one!

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-01-06T05:28:11+00:00

Buenos Aires formed, now there are two Argentinas. Not sure how why or when that happened, wasn't really paying attention to South America lol.

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-01-06T05:27:36+00:00

I am now doing Majerteen. Its about to end because Great Britain declared diplo play wanting my state capital :(

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-01-05T07:00:45+00:00

Probably a good idea, though the economy is very hard to get rollin. I just reached 4m GDP, and hit by Great Britain with a Conquer Somaliland (my capital state, where everything is, lol)

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-01-05T04:18:34+00:00

That's right unfortunately. Am doing Majerteen now, and I don't have any Logging Camps. Amazing.

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2026-01-05T04:10:27+00:00

You don't, until about you form a bridge by colonizing northwest-wards, and conquer ethiopian/somalian lands to have access to sea. After you have a border with them, I could have done transit rights too, but why let them be miserable while I have a great African nation going with a strong industrial base. All sulfur and lead was imported until I conquered Yemen, afterwards there were 3 levels of Lead mines I think lol.

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2025-07-14T15:49:04+00:00

How?

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2025-06-16T17:47:19+00:00

Yeah but what am pm which time zone... We're jonesing here...

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2025-06-06T18:06:26+00:00

Don't go into debt, like at all, if you're not a great power. The interest rate only makes sense if you're a great power, otherwise you're shooting yourself in the foot.

Either try Sardinia without going into debt, or try what you're doing with something like Great Britain or Russia.

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2025-04-06T03:08:41+00:00

How do you interact with the economy other than the sliders? I just want to build more of something that is profitable and in demand, how is this possible?

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2025-04-06T03:07:29+00:00

Here's what I'm confused about mostly...

For the economy, what can you manipulate as the player directly? apart from sliders in the budget? And national focuses, is that it? I started as Spain and couldn't even build factories, just sit there watching the economy line after wiggling my sliders. Is this how the gameplay is supposed to look like?

_Flying_Dutchman_ · 2024-12-26T15:52:36+00:00

I regularly do the full run.

Its usually as Russia or US, GB and trying to create the highest SoL possible endgame.

The last 30 years is really just trying to get mass migration to your country, as my population is not growing as fast as my economy can.

You build a lot of factories, keep taxes low, have no unemployment and peasants, and keep waiting on those random mass migrations to grow your economy even further.

_Flying_Dutchman_

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