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I feel like TW benefits a lot from having a focused timeline. Since TW doesn't really focus on strategic elements of the campaign and we've never really had a TW where warfare was drastically different at the end compared to the beginning.

Just the 30 years war would suit the TW format better IMO.

Have you played the game? It was perfectly serviceable at launch. It might not have been a game for everyone but there really weren't any technical issues. Just stupid journalists that claim that CIV II had a more intuitive learning experience, you know a game that was shipped with a manual.

They should have the US start on consumption taxes again. The US should be able to grow from their private investment pool whilst the federal govrnment should be struggling to build out the executives power before it can be throwing it's power around.

The Netherlands

The Netherlands did not have the economic incentives to really industrialise because their global empire was build upon spices. They industrialised much, much later then their southern brethren.

Britain's industrialization was very much driven by their textile industry that was already very much existent without their empire. Before the different cloth producing machines they exported the wool to the low countries (mostly modern day Belgium) because they had a lot of population surplus to have a massive cottage industry. It's in these conditions automation had a chance to shine in Britain. Which then later allowed them to exploit the cotton production from their empire.

Forming a republic is usually an act of no kings by definition,

There have been a lot of el presidente "republics" in history. Turns out that for a lot of heads of state keeping the power is a very tempting thing to do. Venezuela, Bangladesh are just two very recent examples.

I would like it if the devs actually tried to represent federal states. For one, to have a better representation of the US but also to have more interesting possibilities when it comes to Russia, Austria, pan-slavism. Have an alternative German formation when it isn't just Prussia strong-arming every other minor state and potentially have another interesting way to represent the warlord period in china.

Collective action by definition requires coordination.

Not from the uk, from Belgium, bought my first home in 2021. At the time of signing my mortgage payment was just under 40%. Now with my pay that automatically get's inflation adjustment it's around 30%. (net income of course.)

The issue is that the power bloc system in game is too much of a power bloc yet the game likes to pretend it also represent international institutions like zollverein and the Metternich system. One could argue that Spain should be under the Metternich system. As the absolutist Bourbon rule in Spain at the game start (How is carlos?) was very much put in place by France with the support of the holy alliance and the congress of Vienna.

The game needs international institutions. Ways to represent multi state organisations without a clear #1. It can represent a Zollverein where prussia can't just kick out Bavaria . It can represent a Metternich system that has all the major powers in Europe in it trying to combat the rise of liberalism. But it could also be used for things like the worlds fair; the western scientific community, the 1922 treaty of Washington. These are all international institutions that do not fit to fall under a single power as a leader. Especially if that also blocks that power from having a powerblok to do powerblok things.

Trade centres pay out dividends to their capitalists like other buildings and a percentage of those dividends go into the investment pool.

I think one of the core issues is that trade is done by creating buy and sell orders in discrete steps which makes them hard to compete on top of the fact that they need to overcome MAPI.

It makes only very high price difference trade worth it. Often such a high difference that tariffs aren't impacted.

Honestly I think MAPI should be revised. Traditionalism shouldn't have a MAPI impact, it rather should give individual states a 10% tariff on market bought goods that go to the local landlords. Whilst a system like communication capacity should exist like tax and transport based on the population in the state. Where urban centre levels, railroad and port levels and consumption of telephones help meet the need. If you completly meet de need you don't get any MAPI penalty.

It does glow, no? It just doesn't light up the area around it. But the entity itself has a light level independent from it's surrounding. Honestly light level updates has been such a bane for performance the idea that they would influence the light of a surrounding area was IMO always a pipedream.

The biggest difference would be navy. Germany catapulted itself into being a massive colonial empire and there are kilometers of hostile coastline between their home naval bases and their empire. I suspect that they would heavily invest into carriers once it's clear what role aviation would play in the navy. Seeing they wouldn't expect their air force being able to sufficiently support heir navy west of the channel.

100 and 50 aren't good as generals go up by 30 per level and admirals go up by 20. So either go 60 or 120.

Latest I heard was everything 65W and up. Seems like it's still an evolving story though.

I would love it if it was 1 to 1 copied though. Biggest gripe I have with HOI4's navy system is that there isn't really enough time to make use of it. By the tie you developed, designed and build a navy to your liking you're at the end of the game.

I don't know the ethics of calling your helper a tool even if it's true.

Obviously there are modern states that have existed as cohesive continuous states before the concept of modern nation states.

No, Germany was pretty late on having states and there is a big part in Italian history between the roman empire and modern Italy where the many governing entities within Italy failed to be a state.