Undustrial score - any guide on how to properly farm it?

[WankoStankins]

OY VEY! Promoting craftsmen? You fool!

You should get clergymen to 4% in every state in order to maximize your literacy growth because you need a literate population to get mass promotion to craftsmen and clerks. Promoting craftsmen is useless if the conditions that would naturally promote them to craftsmen don't exist.

Also dreadnoughts raise your military score. Warscore is the measurement of how well you are doing in a specific war. Military score is what gives you points towards your total score and how strong the AI views you (which is important in making them avoid fighting you and going against you in a crisis). Naval bases are exceptionally important if you want to colonize or construct a large navy, which you should want to do (naval bases allow you to colonize and build more ships, and the new colonies you get will let you build more naval bases which let you build more ships and then colonize more...). You should upgrade all your naval bases to the highest level possible, even in Africa, because each one gives you more colonial points and increases the amount of naval ships you can supply efficiently. Forts have no effect on the population or industrial score or even military score, they just make it take longer for a province to be occupied. Having land occupied decreases your population and industry score though because people in occupied provinces will become unemployed and often emigrate to America until they're liberated.

As France you should easily be able to become the #1 industrial power in the world without ever going to war even (just try to stop Germany from forming or they'll take that spot probably). Subsidizing is good if you can be sure it is forever, but if there is a significant chance of a laissez faire coming into power in the future, you should have an industry that is prepared for that which means cutting down on subsidizing to avoid overgrowing your industries until they become unprofitable. To allow factories to stay profitable without subsidies and to keep your workforce employed keep tariffs as low as possible and keep taxes on the rich (capitalists) as far to the left as the slider will go, as capitalists having more money is always a good thing (unless you're a planned economy).

 

[Vincenzo_667]

But my average literacy is at 90% as you can see on the screenshots, it's actually went down a few points now, because the USA obviously has less literacy than I do, so caputring their provinces brings my national average down a bit, but it's only like 1% per state, I think that's ignorable. Funnily enough even though the USA obviously has lower literacy, their factories were full at the time I conquered them.

Here is the great power sheet. German region is not even close to being industrialy strong in my current game, both NGF and Austria are pretty weak (I take some credit for that). But that UK and USA seem to keep an average industrial score of twice the amount of what I have no matter what.

 

[WankoStankins]

Upload your savegame on mediafire and it'd be really easy to tell how to fix that. It just seems strange since I often see AI France get #1 industry on its own!

 

[Owl Raider]

Another thing to note is that you seem to be warmongering a lot in your games. This does affect your industry in several ways. First and foremost it creates an artificial demand for more soldiers(to cover losses) which in turn leaves less people to work the RGOs and Factories alike. Secondly war economy is very different from peace economy, so the factories that are great in peace time might not be as great during war time and vice versa. Thirdly war affects the industries of every nation involved in it, as having land occupied shuts down the factories inside it, which in turn has an effect on the global economy, especially if the nation being occupied is an industrial powerhouse. While you can create an industry focused more on military products(for a war economy) and work around the industries that tend to get shut down by war(those of the nations commonly being occupied during those wars) it's even more unpredictable than the peace time market which is already complex and effected by a great deal of randomness. So basically while it's technically possible to have a powerhouse of an industry while being extremely warlike it's not common and significantly harder than having a powerhouse industry as a relatively peaceful nation. That's not to say you don't want any wars, you do after all need to accrue some infamy to not let it go to waste, as infamy is a resource too. However you want your wars to be short and profitable rather than long and not so profitable.

 

[Maggix]

But my average literacy is at 90% as you can see on the screenshots, it's actually went down a few points now, because the USA obviously has less literacy than I do, so caputring their provinces brings my national average down a bit, but it's only like 1% per state, I think that's ignorable. Funnily enough even though the USA obviously has lower literacy, their factories were full at the time I conquered them.

Here is the great power sheet. German region is not even close to being industrialy strong in my current game, both NGF and Austria are pretty weak (I take some credit for that). But that UK and USA seem to keep an average industrial score of twice the amount of what I have no matter what.

You are playing vanilla where UK converts India and China into states and gets a shitton of craftsmen that way. USA is presumably the result of massive amounts of immigration. Buy the 2 DLC.

 

[KevinG]

Yeah in HoD it's literally impossible for the UK to get 20,000 industry unless it conquers all of europe. Your score of 7500 would easily make you #1 in the HoD expansion because UK can't turn Indian colonies into states. Also the formula for calculating industry in vanilla is different than HoD so the previous formula I posted of 4*factorylevel doesn't apply.