States vs Provinces?

[swilhelm73]

Factories are built by states but workers are located in individual provinces, AFAICT.

So, when trying to decide where to expand/built factories you have to go to the ledger, add up the unassigned from each province and then decide based on that...right? This seems awkward...am I missing something?

 

[TheDarkside]

I like to click on a province and get the "state window" which has the factory icon on the bottom. On that window you see all the POPs which are working in RGO's for each province in the state, and based on that I decide if I should build a factory there (alot of workers assigned to RGO's means I have plenty of POPs to convert to factory workers). It will also have icons on the right for each POP type in that province, but unfortunately not the number (I really hope Paradox prints a number there). But based on those icons you can determine a good deal about the situation in that province, besides- unassigned craftsmen that you never knew about is extremely rare AFAIK

 

[TheDarkside]

Eh I guess unassigned workers at the start is not too rare afteral. I have only played minor nations, so I just started a game as England to see the situation, and they have some situations where craftsmen/clerks are ina state with no factory.

Example of the window I mentioned:
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from that window, I see alot of people assigned to RGO's, so I have plenty of people here to convert in case I wanted to build factory here. The pop icons on each province though are showing some have clerks and craftsmen, but unfortunately do not show their number. But this is the best way I know of- maybe there's something else we're both missing?

 

[unmerged(5110)]

Unfortunately, it does not seem that this was mentioned in the manual, but ALL unassigned POPs (unassigned craftsmen, unassigned clerks, unassigned farmers, all officers, all soldiers, etc.) are counted when you click on the factories button... They are displayed at the bottom.

This is a good way of telling which states will be most receptive to a new factory. Click the factory button and have a glance at unassigned POPs. The more the merrier.

 

[OriginalRafiki]

You can also get a fairly good idea of how filled up your factories are by looking at the efficiency percentage under the factory icon on the state view. The percentage is the amount of slots that are POPulated. A low percentage here shows that you have room for more workers, a high percentage that it might be time to think of factory expansion or a new factory.

Rafiki