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Is there any method to ease the construction of railroads save by putting either a state-capitalist, interventionist or laisez-faire government in?

State-capitalist governments seem very nice at times, but it's EXTREME micromanagement to pick every single province and upgrade it's railroad, not even once but /6/ times. It seems like a huge game breaker for playing almost any large nation, especially as an extremist, expansionistic ideology.
 

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Pikeman85 said:
Is there any method to ease the construction of railroads save by putting either a state-capitalist, interventionist or laisez-faire government in?

State-capitalist governments seem very nice at times, but it's EXTREME micromanagement to pick every single province and upgrade it's railroad, not even once but /6/ times. It seems like a huge game breaker for playing almost any large nation, especially as an extremist, expansionistic ideology.

If you gather enough money and resources to upgrade several provinces at a time it's enough to select one province with the mouse, then use the keyboard and type in 'r.r.r.r' if it's a four province state. 'r' means build rail, '.' means next province.
 

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That's why large countries work better with a free market system. All that land to drive spikes into and only the king to swing the hammer :rofl: .
 

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I guess the key to railroad builiding under laissez-faire gov is to obtain one railroad tech then wait for capis to build railroad in all the country then research the second railroad tech and so on ...
all is brightly explained in OHgamer ARR, check his sig.