Yes its early but that's the best time to input criticism of the system as its the easiest time to change thing if the trade system of EU4 was criticized early on maybe it wouldn't be a one way system that the devs now wish to change but cant because its too hard coded in.
One of the things I liked about Victoria 2 is how many things you actually didn't have much agency over. I'd often start up industry myself but mostly let the capitalists handle it afterwards. Definitely not excited about directing the economy myself.
This I want agency over how my nation develops but I don't wanna do that all myself you might give funding to an agency in a government but you wont tend to micromanage that agency unless they really screw up XD.
In Vicky 2 I end up modding the ideologies file to give my respective political party ‘state capitalism’ as their economic policy since the capitalist AI was so random at picking which factories to build in a given state.
*rolls a dice* well old chap, this dice says to build a clipper shipyard.
I have never done that, and done everything in power to prevent L-F parties every coming to power, they close factories and mess up the economy in V2. I always pushed towards S-C or Planned. It didn't really occur to me anyone wouldn't with large countries as L-F is such instability.
God no I fine that extremely un fun At most I will set up the economy with a few core industries switch to interventionist and just destroy bad factories
I know you still have later diaries, but please add an Ai governor or the like similar to stellaris if we don't want to personally micro buildings. Like guide them to say please focus industry, agriculture, etc.
Some people think that economic processes are rolled at the macro level. Factories come about by chance, purely according to the individual entrepreneur's taste. The game does not simulate the individual level. The factory stands for an entire complex. The wrong decisions and the bankrupt entrepreneurs are not simulated. The possible failure is only simulated in a longer perspective. Which is why I don't necessarily have to let AI build factories in order to simulate a laissez-faire market economy. Building a "factory" can also simply pose the question of whose money is used, who benefits from it, what share the state gets.
Liberal parties were almost guaranteed to crash the economy once or twice in the mid-late game.
Exactly for the reason it never went like this with historical great powers. The state repeatedly intervened in the interests of certain groups. The beautiful fairy tale of the power of the free market economy was mainly reserved for gaining access to foreign markets. Or to tell the workers that with a little effort anyone could do it.
Except there were such restrictions that governments often faced. Look at the US in this time period, when the federal government was often constrained in directly engaging in such projects.
I did that too, at first, but real life principles and in game mechanics just don’t jive all that well unfortunately.
Arguments about the historicity of governments directly deciding what sort of industries should be build are imo, secondary to the fact that the AI capitalists struggled to make the proper decisions real life capitalists would have.
Was it considered to implement player agency via indirect actions, such as subsidies or tax breaks to certain industries?
