So How High (or Low) do you put your stockpile slider on?

[Descri]

Now, first thing I have to say, when I started playing V2 I was Dazzled by the scale of it. It isn't like any other paradox game that I played. But now after some trouble I managed to (theoretically at least) grasp how the game's different systems work,except one - Trade and The National Stockpile Slider. It's not that I can't grasp the systems themselves, I realize that when I automate (which I intend to do, at least at first) I am supposed to just let the AI set the amount, and I control only the national stockpile slider.

The Problem is: I don't really know on what amount should I put it on.

so I ask: what amount in your games do you usually put it on, and why?

Thanks

 

[unmerged(131989)]

The national stockpile slider essentially buys stuff for your stockpile - stuff used in projects (factories, railroads, etc. if you can build them), as well as stuff used to maintain your military (small arms, canned food, clippers, steamers, etc.). Keeping it on 100% ensures that all of your projects are getting fully funded, as well as ensuring that your units are fully organised due to having 100% supplies.

 

[Kainser]

So basically, as long as you don't have any oversea provinces or are buying stuff for projects you can safely keep that slider low while at peace.

 

[lordofzwergs]

I keep it at 0 most of the time. Unless, of course, I need to fund a building project, at which point I turn it up all the way, make sure I got all the materials I need, and then turn it back down again. If I'm expecting or am in fear of a war I will slide it higher to be more prepared. In a way it feels like the Army budget slider from EU2, in that I generally kept it at minimum and after I put it up, it took a bit for my soldiers to be fighting fit. That kind of felt nostalgiac(sp? spell check says that's wrong) for me.

Edit: From what I can tell, it is safe to keep it low. However, I have no clue what effect this would have on overseas provinces as I had none.

 

[unmerged(131989)]

So basically, as long as you don't have any oversea provinces or are buying stuff for projects you can safely keep that slider low while at peace.

Pretty much, though it can take a while for organisation to come back, so be careful that no-one wants to declare war on you.

 

[BRK]

I have it on 75-80 when at war, 50% otherwise. However,if some capitalists take it into their heads to start building a completely unnecessary factory,I've tried sliding it all the way back so they give up due to a lack of supplies: don't know if it makes sense but at least they stopped.

 

[quetzilla]

This one screwed me over with my first attempt playing Egypt (maybe not the best choice for first country... but its Egypt!)

Don't know if this is true at all for civilized countries, but I found that if I set stockpile at 0, that gave me a bunch of money to pump into other sliders, which then made my pops better off and gave me even more tax money, so that at first I was in -$40 per day with stockpile at 40%, but after a few years of fiddling with the sliders I was able to put stockpile at 100% in peace time and still have my other sliders high AND still make profit.

I *could* put the slider lower, but I realized that setting stockpile higher adds demand for goods from Artisans, which puts them back to work since mine were always mega unhappy. For civilized nations this probably doesn't apply as much since they can make stuff from factories.

Now if I can only stop my Clergy from running away all the time!

 

[Descri]

I just played a bit and I think I pretty much understand it now, I pretty much keep it low unless I just got a big project started and I need it supplied or in war.


So, in a sort of indirect continuation of my first question: Does reinforcing and reorganizing the army only depends on stockpile and army investment? and what do I need in order for my armies to reinforce (not reorganize) faster?

 

[Darkrenown]

I have it on 75-80 when at war, 50% otherwise. However,if some capitalists take it into their heads to start building a completely unnecessary factory,I've tried sliding it all the way back so they give up due to a lack of supplies: don't know if it makes sense but at least they stopped.

Capis buy from the WM, not your stockpile.

 

[unmerged(94472)]

So if I understand this right, if you are playing a Interventionist economic policy and want to build railroads, the thing to do is max out the stockpile slider until you have all the material you need. Correct?

 

[Darkrenown]

You can, but you don't need to. If you have cash you can just run about hitting "build railway" and autotrade will handle buying all the supplies for you.

 

[unmerged(131989)]

You can, but you don't need to. If you have cash you can just run about hitting "build railway" and autotrade will handle buying all the supplies for you.

Yeah, but it goes through your national stockpile first, so you need to have at least some funding (if set to zero it will never auto-buy). Additionally, you will get the resources quicker if you have full spending on your national stockpile.

 

[FrEDa]

Yeah, but it goes through your national stockpile first, so you need to have at least some funding (if set to zero it will never auto-buy). Additionally, you will get the resources quicker if you have full spending on your national stockpile.

Unless it is Iron

/F

 

[Darkrenown]

Yeah, but it goes through your national stockpile first, so you need to have at least some funding (if set to zero it will never auto-buy). Additionally, you will get the resources quicker if you have full spending on your national stockpile.

TBH I never touch that slider