Civil factories

[Fownie]

Hello!

I'm new in hoi4, in my first game, I have 24 total factories of which 6 are civils. The problem is that I need 8 (-2) civils for goods and I don't have any civil factory for converting or build a new one. Are there a way for unbloking this situation?

 

[Zauberelefant]

You can build equipment without the resources at hand, albeit with an efficiency penalty. Civil factories (CIC) are too valuable to be used up for trade, do that if you either have a truly crippling need (lacking more than 4 of a resource) AND have enough CIC to keep building stuff.

 

[jura28]

Strange situation. Look if u can get some civil factories via focus tree. If not, you can:
- manually destroy some of you're military factories to lower the number of civil factories needed for consumer goods,
- enact war economy to lower % of your civil factories used for consumer goods.

 

[Fownie]

I had to destroy military factories for unblocking situation, but you may get blocked if you don't have enough civil factories....

 

[Bunnytob]

Who even starts off with an economy of 18/6?

 

[Secret Master]

The answer might be to build things with mic that don’t require you to import resources.

Who even starts off with an economy of 18/6?

That is a good question. I can’t think of any country like that. Did the OP console in some extra factories?

 

[squid_hills]

I think what happened is that they started with the usual spread of more Civs than Mils but, not knowing how vitally important Civs are, they went and spammed Mils in their build que until their economy laws locked them out of having any Civs.

 

[Fownie]

Who even starts off with an economy of 18/6?

It was my first time playing this game and I chose Spain, I converted some of my Civs in military because of civil war. When the war ended I found this situation.

 

[GSP Jr]

Start your game again from the beginning.

But read this first so you have some idea what you need to do: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/beginners-resource-collection.942432/