Early game France

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The year is 1846 in my GC game victoria revolutions vanilla as France. I've already done what it says in the VickyWiki about playing as France in the early days but the capitalists still just get 0.14-0.40 in saved money each day

I don't know if that's good or not but now, Prussia, USA and the UK have all higher than me and Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Bavaria and Sweden have started to breathe me in the neck ( especially Russia have dubbled their industry in some way )

What should I do to give France maximized industry ( without modding or cheating ) and still a happy people?

I don't know if it's worth to set a better party as the ruling cause that will cause revolution or something I think


Although, the capitalists in Paris, Lille, Metz, Bordeaux and Marseille have builded a railroad each

 

[OHgamer]

First confirming you are playing Revolutions. Second did you download the hotfixes (see my sig) for Revolutions. They rework the French POPs to make FRA more capable to industrialize, as well as fix other problems with bugs/errors in moddable files that have been discovered since the release of Revolutions.

The thing with France is you sort of have to coddle your capis even more than normal - you need to maximize exports (and with your meh RGOs that is harder to do than for other nations), keep taxes as low as possible for your capi pops, and just be patient more than anything else. France have very low POP growth compared to other nations, so consider political reforms to try and draw in other European immigrants before the USA gets too far ahead in the plurality/reform race to attract immigrants.

But the big thing is making sure you do everything you can to keep exports at maximum so that daily income for pops is as high as it can be, and that as the state you are not taking too much of that daily income in the form of taxes or tariffs so that the capis can build up their reserves to build factories and railways.

 

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After I've installed the hotfixes is it just to extract it into the Victoria folder direct?

And is it a VIP for revolutions and should I install it?

 

[robou]

is the French Capitalists bug in the FAQ? it seems to be coming up quite a bit now!

 

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Where?
Can be good to know

 

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And where and how do I turn regular pops into caps and why can't I fix the Republican party to become allowed?

On the whole thing, why is France so bad from the 1836 campaign?

 

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Hm the more capitalists there are in one pop the more money they will gather

 

[OHgamer]

And where and how do I turn regular pops into caps and why can't I fix the Republican party to become allowed?

On the whole thing, why is France so bad from the 1836 campaign?

you can only promote capitalists from clerk pops, so convert a farmer/labourer to a clerk first, then promote the new clerk to capitalist

parties can be unbanned only during elections. Hold an election and then unban the party during the election

 

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In real world history, France couldn't have been this bad or? They did win at least one war aginst Austria together with Sardinia-Piemonte.
And if I'm thinking out really was'nt it France who was one of the first nations to create railroads?

Well thx

 

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france

actually, france was historically poor at building railroads. during its war with austria, france was hindered in getting troops and supplies to the front by rail as the government had only laid a single track going towards the sard/pied border, so the game is actually very accurate in that regard.

 

[Emp_Palpatine]

I disagree.
The second Empire was great for railways with number of km increased 10 times. It's true that, just like in most Europe, there were only lines between great cities (so not to the Alps) in 1848, but in 1870, the french rail network was very good for that time.

The first nation to have railroad was UK, followed by Belgium and then France.
France was not as bad as in Revolution. In VIP, it's more historically correct: France often stands 3rd or 4th (after UK, US, Germany) in economy; 3rd or 2nd in military, that is correct.

 

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In my game I am 4th in Industry but while I have got almost +40 in economy, UK has gotten +400, Prussia +150, USA +150, Russia - Sweden - Austria - Bavaria - Belgium - Netherlands - Piemonte-Sardinia +50-100

If it keeps on like this Russia will have as good economy as France in 1860-1870 if not some industrial boom happens

But I think I've stabilised it now with a 42000 big pop of capitalists