Nuclear plants and Radar etc.

[TremblingBlue]

As far as I know (from gameplay), they take manpower to construct...why do I have to mobilise to create these installations?

 

[General01]

You don't, they take minute amounts of manpower that can easily be supplied from just having even a volunteer army. Remember, 'manpower' doesn't just represent the grunts and the generals, it's also scientists and base technicians who are recruited by government and taken out of the labour pool.

 

[TremblingBlue]

Well, the problem is I can't seem to construct them without mobilising. Whatever initial construction there is, it's eventually halted.

 

[General01]

Do you have 0 manpower? That sounds.. odd. Can you explain the situation more fully, please?

 

[am300307]

If your playing as USA, dont reinforce your units and you will have enough manpower to do it.

 

[TremblingBlue]

I was playing as France. I have long beaten Germany and ended mobilisation...I can build IC, but not reactors or radar. My manpower is 0.

 

[General01]

I guess that's a flaw in the game's mobilization system, then. Really, demobilizing should push you back down to whatever level of conscription you were at before, with a little bit extra manpower from the soldiers staying on. Why not just add some manpower in your savegame? That would seem perfectly reasonable.

 

[Lord Finnish]

Remove a division or two that you don't need. It should give you a lifetime supply of nuke plants.

 

[TremblingBlue]

I guess that's a flaw in the game's mobilization system, then. Really, demobilizing should push you back down to whatever level of conscription you were at before, with a little bit extra manpower from the soldiers staying on. Why not just add some manpower in your savegame? That would seem perfectly reasonable.

I figured that was the problem. Demobilisation puts my manpower at 0 every time. In fact, I've rarely had above 0 manpower in peacetime, and only about 20 due to events/decisions etc. But that soon goes anyway.

I'm not really familiar with editing save files. Maybe I should see if the new patch (whenever that comes) actually solves the problem. I just find in peacetime that I'm totally paralysed with mobilising.

Remove a division or two that you don't need. It should give you a lifetime supply of nuke plants.

I would, but playing as Italy etc, I do need every division I've got. Usually I find that I have to expand every few years (because I'm so bad at handling the economy lol)

 

[^_AC_^]

You probably have 0 manpower because you reinforced your divisions after demobilizing. Disbanding a unit should help, as Lord Finnish said.