Capitalists and their interesting investment choices

[Gihren Zabi]

I know that capitalists are drawn to high end factories like luxury clothes and artillery because the finished products are worth a lot of money, but are they likely to profit from these without first building factories for the inputs?

I ask this because in my game as the Netherlands my capitalists seem to be prefer building these above the more simple foundation industries that wouldn't require them to pay for expensive imports. I know that artisans can make finished goods, but can they make enough for your factories?

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to start at the bottom with fabric, then move up to clothes, and then luxury clothing?

 

[MajorHeartfire]

Capitalist AI is not something that any of the mods have been able to fix either. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be anything that can be done about it. As you said, there is a clear disconnect on how to generate profit. Each Capitalist wants to make the highest profit factory, even if that particular factory has a very bad success rate (you may see Capitalists continuously try to open a Luxury Clothes factory, for instance, only to have them constantly go bankrupt).

Some of the mods can help this by diversifying the economy more (adding more industrial goods that can be made). But, for the most part, this is simply something that is unfixable. Maybe we get lucky and Paradox addresses this too sometime down the line?

 

[Gihren Zabi]

I like the idea of relying on capitalist investment to start your industrial revolution, but I wish that there was more room for player choice. Maybe using your national focus point to encourage SPECIFIC factories rather than industry types? It just seems silly to rely on an unreliable AI. Choosing factories was one thing that I liked about vanilla Victoria 1.

 

[MajorHeartfire]

Well, most governments in the game in 1836 are still monarch-based, which enables the player to put a party in power that enables the building of factories. You could try to encourage the party that allows the building of factories (through national focus). They just need to be the major party in a coalition government to be able to build factories.

 

[Nasr]

Just edit the game so capitalists can't build/open any factories.

Makes the world economy much more smooth.

 

[austrianemporer]

Just edit the game so capitalists can't build/open any factories.

Makes the world economy much more smooth.

Ahahaha!

That's funny. I see you are a huge fan of micromanagement and agrarianism.