What are the current plans for foreign investment?

[lachek]

Why not just for the beginning allow click "+" button for buildings in your subject's territory using your own construction sectors and build queue? What's complex in that?

• Multithreaded construction queue processing, requiring deep code refactoring to allow for constructing in other countries using your own construction sectors without tanking performance.
• Who gets to downsize after you've ordered an expansion? If your subject can just downsize what you just queued up, that's extremely frustrating. If we don't permit them to do that, do we allow them to do it after the construction is completed? That's potentially even more frustrating. If not, how do we determine whether a subject may or may not downsize their own buildings?
• If your capitalists expand buildings in your subject's territories, they'd just be benefiting the other country, without even increasing the wealth or political power of their own profession type. So why would capitalists ever do it?
• On the other hand, if we only permitted government construction in subject territories and no private construction, aren't we basically saying the economic systems that were most prone to foreign exploitation of resources and labor are now the least able to do this?

Just a few points off the top of my head, during design sessions we've identified at least twice this number of concerns we'd need to solve.

 

[lachek]

While these are all very reasonable, are they really worse than the complete lack of foreign construction?

Long-term, if this was the only solution to the problem, we'd probably have to make it work somehow. But I don't think anyone wants us to spend time implementing something janky that might tank performance and is frustrating to use in the short-term, if we can spend that time implementing something better that avoids the issues but takes a bit longer to complete. In the short-term there are event-driven mods that can be used to direct your subjects' expansion efforts, that likely introduces less issues than what hacking in a short-term systemic solution would cause.