I agree that the economic system is the best but the trade economy is beyond busted.Never played that game but I:R has (or had) a similar market system and for me its crap. You just end up trading the highest quantity of goods possible without any consideration of another better approach because, really, there isnt any other.
Victoria 2 its still the best economic system (as how world and countries market works, disregarding SoI's that are bugged) in any paradox tittle for me by far, and when i mean far i mean "a million light years" far.
Did you know that Vic 2 has a top to bottom trade system? (Where ALL resources are distributed to the greatest powers first and the worst nation last). So even if you produce a valuable resource like coal, you cannot even use it because the major powers gobble it all up for their steel factories!
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