Any chance to make liberals grow faster so i can get more and more reforms?
Piss them off: don't give them the reforms they want, but all other reforms. That way, they stay liberal if you don't give them voting rights You can also steer the Liberal Revolution events to massively increase your UH liberals.
Playing as Belgium, used my NI to encourage craftsmen and lowered poor taxes. Yet I'm really lacking manpower in my factories, what can I do about it? Gone full liberal (which I'm starting to regret as I can't really play the game anymore) so I don't really have much choice in anything at this point, I guess I should be closing down factories?
And how should I judge what to close down? Just the money it makes?
You shouldn't lower taxes too much, else the craftsmen you have may get enough money and promote to middle-class POPs. Check the Population screen and see if that's the case. Apart from that, with Belgium the problem is that they're not a big country. I'd advise you to try and get some provinces from the Netherlands. To increase your industrial score, I think it takes into account the factory profits, industry tech and number of craftsmen. Try to find under-supplied products in the World Market (Trade Screen) with reasonably high prices and build these factories if you can (assuming you can change your ruling party to a Planned Economy/State Capitalism one).
Another Quickie: I don't understand the trade screen very well. How can I a) purchase the necessities for BUILDING Ironclads (I can do this normally already with my $$ and prestige), and b) NOT purchase the materials to MAINTAIN them? ___ I'm trying to beef my MIL score by having tons of 0 maintenance Ironclads. I had ~30-40 of them but I had to reduce the NAT stockpile down to almost 0.... and this lead to my land troops also being undersupplied and unable to hold off revolts
I'm playing as the US, and I have some factories that need coal, now I produce well over 200 and they only need abit, but it keeps saying that there is none, and only abot 80 peices are sold on the domestic market, What is wrong and what should I do?
I'll post all 3 tactics I know of, of which, one is not useful to you right now:
1) invest heavy in the +20% diplo point modifiers.
2) decrease their opinions in other countries, even if slowly. they'll panic and boost points into those.
3) remove the shared land border by conquest. I have used this before against France to get Spain, etc, in a few games.
Another question ,where do you see infamy?
I'll post all 3 tactics I know of, of which, one is not useful to you right now:
1) invest heavy in the +20% diplo point modifiers.
2) decrease their opinions in other countries, even if slowly. they'll panic and boost points into those.
3) remove the shared land border by conquest. I have used this before against France to get Spain, etc, in a few games.