v.Manstein said:
I have a little objection on two things.
1. Thing: 10% industrial efficiency
This is a little it over the top. This means, that you must have about 8-10 factories to have an IC of 1, which would mean that some nations neither build nor afford an army, and cannot pay any research. As a result, we have to aid them via events - nothing I really like.
2. Thing: Industrial revolution via Event
This causes some problems in my eyes. First, it makes it completely uninteresting to play as a minor. Together with Issue 1, this would mean that some nations are stick to rather no industry without having the chance to improve. This is quite unrealistic too. If we have a look at the 1897 map, all nations (even Liberia and Abessinia) reached a certain level of development. Keeping them away from any industrial revolution whould mean that they are at a tribal level, which is simply wrong. All territories with a tribal administration where under control of european powers by 1897.
Any settings like 10% etc. can be discussed, obviously. But please play it first and see how it works out (I haven´t played it either a lot yet).
EDIT: looked into the files, it is 25% for pre-industrial. I saw that 1 IC nations seem to remain at 1 IC.
Stuck at a certain level: sorry: very realistic. Any technology can be researched in two to three years by any nation. So if you permit constant research from tribal to 2nd industrial revolution, every nation will be there by 1905.
The nations I have set at pre-industrial are:
Madhiya, Ahaggar, Benin nations (Sokotra), Samoa, Jebel Shammar, Abisynnia, Afghanistan
The nations I have set at 1st Industrial revolution without possibility to research 2nd:
Bhutan, China, Liberia, Hawai, Hejaz, Oman, Persia
All others can research 2nd industrial revolution.
NO tech team is going to sit down in Ahaggar and develop steel industry by 1910. And China is not going to modernize between 1897 and 1905. We might see a change by 1910, but China was still backwards in 1937 when their war with Japan started.
At the moment I am still disappointed that it is not possible to have significant differences between nations in 1914 if you start the 1897 scenarios.