Penury of Iron

[Tomaka17]

Hi,

I'm new to the Victoria serie, so correct me if I make a mistake. I think I understood most of the mechanics of the game, but I prefer to make everything explicit, just in case.

I started playing with two sicilies a few hours ago, and I'm facing a problem: my factories are not building because of a lack of iron.
The tooltip explicitely says "gathering the following goods before construction can begin: Iron 0/33.76". The same happens for capitalists' projects, all the materials and money are gathered, but the iron stays at 0.

I don't have access to iron in my domestic market (I'm not a GP for the moment, and two sicilies doesn't have any iron mine). The tooltip for iron in the world market says: "Supply: ~912 Demand: ~1417". So basically if I'm correct, my country doesn't have access to iron at all because other countries with more prestige simply buy all the stock.

Is there a way to solve this? In reality I would simply show up and shout "I'll buy all your iron for 500 £/unit", but the game doesn't allow me to do so

 

[unmerged(105596)]

I faced the same problem as Brazil. I started stockpiling Iron. Not much was gained though, because all the high-prestige nations took their share... but slowly some iron trickled to me. Then I enabled the "buy from national stockpile" -option, so that my capis could by from there. From that point on, everything went nicely!

Another point: iron will be less scarce as the technologies of iron-producing nations advance.

Yet another one: If you don't have it, take it. In my game, Bolivia has some iron mines...

 

[Tomaka17]

Yet another one: If you don't have it, take it. In my game, Bolivia has some iron mines...

I though about this, but the iron mines neaby (northern Italy and Algeria) are protected by either France or Austria

If a GP includes me in its SOI, will I have access to iron through its domestic market?

 

[Temrek]

I though about this, but the iron mines neaby (northern Italy and Algeria) are protected by either France or Austria

If a GP includes me in its SOI, will I have access to iron through its domestic market?

I think you will have priority in buying it yes.

 

[Kainser]

If you are in a SoI the nations in the sphere gets to buy the iron in that market in order of prestige. So if you have high prestige and are in a SoI with a lot of iron, then yes.

 

[Tomaka17]

Thanks for your answers,

A few minutes ago Austria declared war on Prussia, so I'll try to conquer one of its vassals

 

[Snall]

I think you will have priority in buying it yes.

Yeah if you're in a SoI it goes to that market before the WM.