I bough it, now I need some help...(PIC Heavy)

[xGhost4000x]

Okay, so I bought the game, and now I have continued my campaign from my friends house (he emailed me the save game).

I am Brazil, the year is 1871 and well....pictures are worth a thousand words.

As you can see here I am doing alright in Prestige, but poorly in Military and Industry. What must I do to improve this?

Here is my economy screen, I think it is properly balanced, but If there is anything I need changed please tell me.

I don't even know where to begin in this screen, so I have left it alone, but I would like to learn what to do here.

Here is one of my biggest problems, the French have seen fit to attack me once in the past and I am concerned that another assault my follow, how do I defend against such a powerful country?

My population breakdown...

Research...

My weak armies....

And finally, this...which I have no idea how to use...

I don't know how to industrialize, I don't know how to build railroads, what factories I should be building or even how to get the US or another power to back me so I don't have to fear France. What do I do from here?

EDIT: Also It seems I can't build factories because of my ruling party or something like that. Yet it seems WAY to easy to switch to a different party with no penalties. Or am I missing something?

 

[fletcherreed]

I bought Victoria and Revolutions about a year ago but have only really started playing a month ago but I think I have a decent grasp on its basics and some advanced topics.

For one, as Brazil I wouldn't worry about the score at this point. The Ind. Power I believe is a representation of how many factories and railroads you have and the Mil Power is how many divisions and ships you have. Technology I don't believe has anything to do with it. What I would try to do is build up your reserve divisions (look at the bottom of your military screen at the "increase mobilization" button) which I think is 40 canned goods and 40 small arms to do. This will give you 4 divisions of infantry when you "Mobilize". So you get all these divisions only when you want so you don't pay for them until you need them! So this should help in your conquest of South America.

Your budget screen looks good.

The political screen gives you a lot of information but beware where you click. The first "button" on the screen you posted is harmless, just shows you the parties of your country an there beliefs. The second "button" will show you the reforms for the politics and voting. You can change your voting rights and other political freedoms you can give or take away. These cost money so make sure you're sure before pressing anything within this menu. The third "button" has social reforms which lower the militancy of your lower economic pops but cost a lot of money. Be very sure you want these before you click them! They cost a lot of money and cannot be retracted and have no confirmation pop up.

What I would do about the French is to make friends with a major power and maybe make a defensive alliance with them. UK would be great but maybe the US would deter them enough. Otherwise, increase your mobilization reserves like I said above to help in every war.

Everything else looks fine for now; the last screen I almost never use. I let the computer use automate the convoy screen and never really encounter any problems.

Finally, I would take a look at the VickyWiki ( http://www.paradoxian.org/vickywiki/index.php/Main_Page ) guide for any other small questions you have. That's where I learned to play and enjoy this great game!

 

[Orm]

Convert more POPs to soldiers and build more divisions.

Convert a Clerk POP to Capitalist in at least one of your most population-rich states and then make sure that your government is either Laissez Faire or Interventionist. The Capitalist will then start building rails and factories. Keeping rich taxes low will make this happen faster. Beware that you will have to turn farmer/labourer POPs into Craftsmen and Clerks that can work in the factories.

Switching party comes with a penalty: increased militancy. Do it once to many and your nation will rise against you.


Edit: looking at your research screenie, you've fallen behind in tech, and it's a bit un-balanced. I'd promote some really large farmer/labourer POPs to Clerks to get better research points (RP) generation. With a surplus of RP you can also trade for techs and catch up.

 

[Eärendil]

First of all, you're doing very well for a first game. What you're missing is industrialization. Do as beowulf said and promote a clerk to a capitalist in a state with a big population, set rich taxes low (preferably at 0%) and watch them build factories and railroads for you.

The reason France attacked you is probably because you have too many badboy points from conquering provinces in Bolivia. Press F12 to get the console and type in 'badboy' to see your badboy score. If it's 15-20 something it is too high for a nation with a low military score. What you can do to get a higher military score from expanding the mobilization pool as fletcherreed said.

When you've learned how to industrialize you can try focusing on getting immigrants, but that's a bit tricky. More can be read in one of the stickied threads in this forum.

 

[unmerged(16676)]

What to do...

First off, reduce rich taxes to zero and tariffs ALSO to zero, you are making enough to cover doing this. The reason for this is you want to make your captialists rich and happy so they will make you free stuff, and that is how to do it.

Next, research ONLY industry till you have 10 industrial techs, then do the same for army & navy untill each is at ten, you have to much imbalence in your reseach. Army reserach will help you fight better also.

Now, about converting pops.

The way to do this, you select one that is of your nationality (Brazilian) that is about say, 15,000 or more, from Rio, since Rio has a lot of people in it. Next, you must have the trade goods that are required to make the changes you want, to find this out, select for example 'Clerk' and if you do not have what you need, the tool tip will tell you what is missing and how much it costs.

Now convert that pop to a clerk, and click on it again, and try to convert it to a capitalist. same procedure, it will tell you what you need. To find your resouces you use the trade button which is not shown in your screen shots. Its the one right below 'production' on the left under your national flag.

This opens up all the goods traded on the world market and shows what you have. The computer handles this unless you manually handle it. It has sliders and you can buy and sell, to covert pops you need items such as furniture, clothers, luxury clothers, tabacco and so on. Just buy what you need to convert that one pop.

Once he is converted, and taxes and tariffs are at zero, in a short while you will get notices that he started to build a factory in rio, you are on your way! Keep reseraching that industry so you have railroads (which are 6 levels), because that capi will make them ALL OVER YOUR COUNTRY for free.

Now, you need some help with France, the best place to find it is either butter up the french (send them money to like you) or better yet, butter up germany till your friendship is al least 150 and your German friends will garuntee your independance. The Frenchies will now leave you alone, as attacking you means war with germany!

That should be enough for now, try it and we can add more as you learn.

 

[xGhost4000x]

Ok, well, I've done what I was supposed to, however I had to reload a few times because Great Britain or France attacked me and I can't stand up to them, I had Germany at 190 relations but they are to busy fighting the great war to gaurentee my independence....

Things were going good. I'd converted some pops and they created alot of railroads for me, and my production of a greater army was going good. However, it turns out that greater army would be needed sooner than I had planned, as I have had to mobilize ALL of my forces. And it's not another nation that has forced this upon me, no. It's rebels, they will NOT leave me alone, and I can't even figure out why everyone is so damned pissed. Even Rio de jinero revolts every other week....

 

[unmerged(16676)]

Mobilizing makes EVERYONE hate you.

People are probaly unhappy for two reasons, high taxes or lack of voting rights & goods.

Lower taxes on the poor and middle class to 20% for awhile and that should calm people down, also, give full voting rights, all unions and a free press (retain right to ban) and that will also help.

You can discover why people are angry if you click on a province, and highlight a pop. It will tell you what is making them made, expressed as numerical values.

 

[Orm]

You can discover why people are angry if you click on a province, and highlight a pop. It will tell you what is making them made, expressed as numerical values.

Or go to page 6 in the in-game ledger, where all your POPs are listed with all relevant information. In the list you can sort the POPs according to any of the stats by clicking on the column header. This way you can easily find out which POP is most militant, or which POP has the highest yearly increase in militancy, an by hovering your pointer over the value you get a tool-tip telling you what is causing the increase.

 

[xGhost4000x]

Ugh...I am getting very upset. The rebels do not stop, GB continues to harass me, and I've lost to much territory...more than I can afford to rebels.

I've enacted social reforms..political reforms...tax reforms(lowered)...but they just keep rebeliing at a rate far faster than I can compete with them. Especially with my now significantly crippled economy from the lost territories and the reforms.
Could someone PLEASE tell me why they are so angry? I don't understand this screen:

 

[xGhost4000x]

Well, I seem to have fixed it...Open Voting, Min Wage and Max Work hours seem to have calmed the storm.

 

[Eärendil]

What kind of government type do you have? Did you change ruling party at some points?

 

[xGhost4000x]

I still have the Partedo Conservador (spl?)

 

[xGhost4000x]

How can I change that party? I want to switch to something that offers citizenship...also I want to get rid of slavery how do I do that?

 

[xGhost4000x]

Ugh...the game just ended. I was really getting into the grove of things...with almost all of S. America under my control I looked to Central America with war in my heart. With 108 bb and a manpower pool of 200k I was ready to take the fight to mexico.

Is there any way to continue?

 

[unmerged(77251)]

IIRC there is a nolimit patch somewhere; or - if you own hoi2, you could use the converter and pown your neighbours there...

 

[unmerged(161960)]

[I noticed too late that the game is already over, but nevertheless I let my answer stay like that ]

Your industrial tech level is abysmal and your exports are horrible for a population of 10 Mio.You are in one line with some uncivilized malaria ridden African countries.

Brazil has actually an easy way to industrialize. There are certain events firing as soon as you start on the road which will give you many free factories.

Ok, what to do. Like people said take at first a province with many pops (in your case Minais Gerais has 19 pops as seen in the 8th screen)
There you promote at first one large farmer/larbourer pop (40.000 and more) to clerk (he will need certain goods, make sure you buy them on the trade screen).Then you take the same clerk and promote him to capitalist (again you need certain goods, buy them).

You have an interventionist party at the moment, but you are a Constitutional Monarchy. Hence you can easily change to a laissez faire party - just appoint them.

Then you lower the taxes for Rich to zero and also for poor to zero. This will take care that your capitalist gets enough cash and that the militancy for your farmers and labourers reduces. The reduction of militancy will go a LOONG way, hence be patient. In this case you run a deficit but your cash base is enourmous and as you can easily rely on laissez faire for the construction of railroads you dont need much cash.

In general keep the taxes of your people below 33 % , better to raise tariffs or to cut spending (but not on education or crime fighting !)

Forget about your military at the moment, you need money first. In order to keep those Britishers , French and Dutch off your land you simply gift all the lands around their lands at your Northern border to Venezuela.

Apart from this you should switch instantly to industrial techs. Forget about all that culture, culture is good, but money is better.

There is one other way though. As you are already laden with Cash you could also directly switch to a socialist party and then start constructing factories by yourself. Nevertheless Brazil has too many provinces and hence it will take a LOT of money just to cover the Western coast with railroads. Also in this case you must keep taxes up which goes against the idea to reduce militancy.

What to do, when the game is over ? Well, you simply start again and this time you try to take Brazil to 1st place