Accomplishing anything at all as the British Raj

[orimazd]

I've played as the Raj a couple times, and was never really able to do anything except conquest, and expand the RGOs.

There's only one political party, and there is too much clergy to increase consciousness above zero, and so raising taxes to 100% for an extended period of time only results in a tiny increase in revoltrisk, which goes back to zero after a couple years, so no revolution. That political party also has moralism, so I can't demote any clergy pops.

With only a few small british pops and virtually no immigration, I can't have more than a couple factories by the end of the game, and for a while I have to build all the railroads myself.

About the only thing I can do is, come the sepoy mutiny, reload the game as Mughalistan. Do they get anything for winning, or even taking all of India? I don't remember if they are civilised or not, also.

 

[LodovicoAriosto]

There has a similar thread about playing Dutch East Indies a while ago. I think that at least Palisadoes has said that VIP is primarily focused on covering historical paths of nations. As soon as these will be sufficiently processed into event chains, then we can talk about ahistorical paths such as Indian rebellion in the 19th century and thus opening the possibility of large industrialization thanks to tons of newly gained national POPs.

 

[Mattabesta]

right now BI is really just there for gameplay balancing.

 

[unmerged(131989)]

There are plans for the next release to have chains for early dominion status as India (no longer "British India", but simply "India", for this reason). There will also be more political parties, so a much better chance of industrialistion.

 

[JoeGiavani]

Playing as Mughalistan is pretty satisfying. You have cores on nearly all of india and are civilised by event pretty early on IIRC. You also then have lots of high level profitable RGOs with state culture workers.

 

[|AXiN|]

I've had quite a lot of fun playing as BI - the Raj ruled from Saigon to Baghdad. You get to be the bully-boy of the world without bothering with industrialisation. Good times.