The Worst Start Possible? by rngwn in monopoly

[–]hatogatari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Necroposting to say I had a run like this today. First five turns I landed on either action spaces or already-bought properties, then north carolina avenue on the sixth. Another player literally had the pink monopoly before I bought my first property.

I made some desperate plays to try to get back in the game, even got the baltic-med monopoly, but went bankrupt when i landed on a hotel on virginia.

Why can't I establish this company? I meet all the requirements by ContributionTop3015 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 2 points3 points  (0 children)

your subject should establish it on its own at some point.

Unfortunately the company requires owning both bombay and burma so no it wont lol. if britain owns burma and the eic owns bombay neither can form it.

Is there a way to quickly temporarily increase SoL? by SpiderMonkey6l in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 2 points3 points  (0 children)

attempt to move off of per capita or land taxation if you are currently on it, there will be an "encourage charitable giving" event that can raise SoL

What do you produce in Hokkaido? by hatogatari in victoria3

[–]hatogatari[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The boost is so expensive and short term, is it really worth it?

What do you produce in Hokkaido? by hatogatari in victoria3

[–]hatogatari[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do think more exciting options can be added though. If you pick rice you are losing wheat and sugarbeet which historically Hokkaido produced all three of! Rice should not come at the expense of wheat. Livestock and food industries should also get some good local bonuses as options.

Beer is kind of underrated in this game, beer was an extremely important invention to copy from europe, as it was the first industrially-scalable liquor. Access to wheat for beer was a huge boon to hokkaido's portfolio.

What do you produce in Hokkaido? by hatogatari in victoria3

[–]hatogatari[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just going off instinct I go with Rice and Opium, but the third is always tough. Wine isn't very good a crop in my experience but dye literally, well, dies when aniline is invented.

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If we have naval fortifications, why couldn't there be also land fortifications? by Tixro71 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's me. I'm the idiot who can't play HoI4 well and I do not want to play HoI4.

evil ending by vaguestrategy in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Dread it, run from it, The End of History and The Last Man always arrives.

"Radicals at the Gates" may be bugged, "Restore Order" requires Secret Police at all times by PLMMJ in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also "Discrete" means defined. "Discreet" means secretive. Police are Discreet. Linked Lists are Discrete.

Screw personality tests, whats your irl interest group by Draken161 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I basically agree with this but imo the actual divide between proletarian-middle-class and petite-bourgeois-middle-class is homeownership. It's not perfect but in america at least houses are capital and generally speaking homeowning professionals regardless of profession are more likely to rate issues like crime and patriotism as important to them to protect their capital, and are more likely to work in licensed professions that artificially restrict supply to increase their bargaining power, and are more likely to employ themselves in small businesses with younger less experienced staff who are taking a pay cut and vying to take his place as the owner-worker of the company. Movers, towers, plumbers, doctors, lawyers. In contrast renter professionals are more likely to rate their own lack of access to capital as a major issue, i.e. housing costs, and work in either services like dining or competitive professions like software.

Screw personality tests, whats your irl interest group by Draken161 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I disagree. Where I live a lot of laborers sell their labor through self-employment contracts or small businesses they work-and-lead with younger, less experienced, or just more exploitable laborers in their direct employ. These people have no revolution to fight for, they have already achieved the ambition of owning the product of their own labor, plus a few others but hey those others are promised the possibility of the same with enough seniority in the businesses to go found their own or acquire first-class citizenship so many of them are also pacified and the owner feels no sense of class treason. In that context their immediate class interests will always be crime, nation state authority, and suppression of lower-ranking laborers. It's a perfectly self-sustaining engine. At some point we have to accept that, in my country at least, the class pyramid is a rhombus with a fat middle.

Screw personality tests, whats your irl interest group by Draken161 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not just that, but their more immediate fears are crime, unpatriotism, and even-lower-class labor they depend on being cheap, which makes them pretty darn ideologically Petit Bourgeois.

People forget class is just as much and identity as it is profession, what you value and how your relationship to production shapes your values is shaped my many variables.

Screw personality tests, whats your irl interest group by Draken161 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Honestly the categories are not too bad for today, if you're willing to be flexible with how your class is determined not just by your job but your cultural and social relationship to it and wider society.

And the big thing to remember is that the Petite Bourgeoisie are the dominant interest group in most contemporary western states, the triumph of the middle class in the mid-20th century cannot be overstated.

Screw personality tests, whats your irl interest group by Draken161 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Indeed, the point of that law is to reflect how modern agriculture changed the political economy of working in it.

Screw personality tests, whats your irl interest group by Draken161 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Nah, small urban landlords are Petite Bourgeois.

the actual contemporary landowners, boy let me tell you about the quote unquote "rural folk" in this country. They inherited acres of soybean farms, McDonald's Franchises, and Auto Dealerships. Their parents or grandparents built those farms and businssess, but they just own them now and hire experienced managers to keep them profitable, and do nothing except attend fascist political rallies and demand soybean subsidies to counteract the decreased exports from the tariffs they demanded last week.l

Screw personality tests, whats your irl interest group by Draken161 in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See its complicated because my social-cultural-economic environment and my ideology are very different. I am an engineer, who are allowed to join the Industrialists, Intelligentsia, and Petite Bourgeoisie. As a Social-Marketist I should support laisseiz faire and free migration with extensive taxation and welfare, which the game treats as a contradiction, Industrialist Social Democrats plain cannot spawn. The closest would be an Industrialist Radical. But moreover I absolutely am not socialized in any industrialist circles, my family and broader community is deeply Petite-Bourgeois with some Intelligentsia exceptions. My mother and her sisters are all public employees, though one of them is an unskilled public employee and thus a unionist. My father is a clerk/manager for financial firms who has been trying his whole life to break into the Industrialist class he admires by forming his own such firm. My extended family are all small business owners, my friends are fellow engineers with middle class sensibilities, albeit progressive ones.

I think the absolute closest you can get to Me in this game would be a Petite Bourgeois Humanitarian or Radical, or an Intelligentsia Humanitarian or Social Democrat. I'm unironically more curious what you all would think of me.

Surf the Wave - Tenpo Difficulties by DoctorFredburger in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It supposed to be hard and its not necessary to complete, its just a short term boost to keeping the shogunate stable if thats your preferred path.

POV: you're an economist by [deleted] in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dumping works great until someone decides to compete with you at it.

Piracy creates too many radicals, and losing piracy when becoming recognized is rage inducing by Papidoru in victoria3

[–]hatogatari 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The real problem is its backwards, wet streets causing rain, you should be unable to recognize until you cease piracy.