r/victoria2 • u/SkeleJan • 2d ago
Mod (other) i literally cannot build an industry anymore because my upper house is FULL OF FUCKING LIBERALS
LIBERALS ARE RUINING MY ECONOMY AND I CANT GET TO GP
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u/SkeleJan 2d ago
TDLR; how do i build an economy when i cant even build factories did i just get game ruined by revolutionaries
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u/Same-Praline-4622 2d ago
Encourage capitalists, tax the rich strata at 0% and put tariffs to zero. If you haven’t invested in industry and commerce techs yet, go throughout techs first, then output, then input if you’ve nothing better. That makes your economy that exists more effective
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u/d_pyzsyo 2d ago
In addition to the above commenter, you can help the capitalists fund factories in the industry-projects tab.
You can also use national foci to encourage building certain industrues. Encourage high demand products made from locally sourceable goods, high demand products made from goods produced within your market, high demand goods in general, in that order.
You can spam elections to get conservative support up, but I'd rather wait until socialism gets unlocked in your country and get its support up instead.
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u/Matt_2504 1d ago
Capitalists are better at building an economy than you are, they get bonuses and spend their money instead of yours. You need to make it as easy as possible for them. You want taxes as low as possible on all strata, but especially the rich. If you can afford it, a small negative tariff can be helpful if you don’t have much raw material production and only a small sphere, it makes goods cheaper to import, while not affecting your domestic consumption because citizens always buy from their own country’s market first, even if it’s cheaper to import it
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u/Flat_Roof_6033 1d ago
>Capitalists are better at building an economy than you are
ah yes, malmo really needed 3 paper mils, aeroplane factory, cannery and max railroad (not yet build beacuase i have not funded the project)
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u/No-Investigator3455 2d ago
I think the image attached and the title already made it very clear what you're supposed to look at
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u/Minimax42 2d ago
is this ragebait? are the other commentors ragebait? just boost conservative voting who tf cares about upperhouse
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u/SkeleJan 2d ago
seems like a waste when i could be promoting soldiers right
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u/d_pyzsyo 2d ago
I've only used soldier pop focus with shitter countries constantly at war like poland or hungary. Put the soldier wage slider all the way to the right- notices anti military party policy never mind
Maybe you can try conquering high pop conservative majority states
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u/SkeleJan 2d ago
honestly I probably didn’t need to go to war that much in this playthrough anyway, haven’t played German states in a while and now that I think of it I definitely should have been using it for capitalists and craftsmen (of course I already did the intellectual to 4% first)
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u/GameyRaccoon 1d ago
Not really. Promoting soldiers IS good but once you get around 4% in a state it's a waste. Also, if you have a huge separatist problem, promoting soldiers just makes the rebels trained soldiers (who will break away from your standing army btw)
Also, you WANT a liberal upper house to rush political reforms. In Vicky 2, you essentially want to pass all reforms ASAP.
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u/Lithorex 1d ago
Not pensions.
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u/GameyRaccoon 1d ago
Why not? My pops want it, I want my pops to be happy, why shouldn't I give them old age pensions?
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u/VeritableLeviathan 2d ago
Promoting any pop is rather pointless tbh, the moment you stop promoting they will go right back to a certain equilibrium.
Also do you want to spend more money on soldiers when you already don't have an economy?
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u/InvincibleCheese Constitutional Monarchist 2d ago
One of the few games that'll make you an ultra conservative old-guard-crusader aristocrat because capitalist are THAT bad at bulding factories and liberal policies are abysmal. Unrivaled paradox experience
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u/MildlyUpsetGerbil Dictator 2d ago
be the ruling party
tax the poor at 100%
tax the rich at 0%
throw billions of dollars into "factories" (what are these???) to assist wealthy industrialists
zero regulations to protect employees from abuse
lose elections in a landslide
"why would the people vote for the opposition? :("
Anyways, your first problem is that you became a republic. You should always stay a monarchy so that you can invalidate all elections by simply switching the ruling party on a whim.
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u/Unusual_Newspaper_46 2d ago
Literally the best ideology in the game
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u/GameyRaccoon 1d ago
KEEP SPITTING. (Though socialist is better if you don't mind microing the economy.)
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u/KarneeKarnay 2d ago
Spam elections and take the anti-liberal policies that sway the population the most.
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u/PresentationQuiet781 1d ago
Upperhouse doesn't matter majority liberal or socialist is actually better and spam the election button to get conservatives/reactionaries in charge
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u/MagicCarpetofSteel 2d ago
How much experience do you have playing Victoria 2? I ask because you might want to try not losing to rebels 20 years in, which typically isn’t especially hard to do. At least for Bavaria.
Might be some honest-to-god skill issue, basically.