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Just want to say i enjoy your comment. :)

I can't say for certain whether or not focusing on a single priority or a pool is more efficient or not, but I doubt it personally. Although I don't know the exact conversion of percentage of GDP allocated to a project contributes to one successful point, I don't think their exists any mechanic that lessons or increases the rate at which those points are completed, so ultimately their shouldn't be any difference between your two examples. If you wish for a more definitive answer and have the time you can always test for yourself whether or not their is a difference. Simply make a save and run your examples a few times on one country and see if their is any consistent difference between one method and the other. On why I say Iraq makes for a good spoils country, it is because oil producing regions give a bonus to completing spoils projects in a country. You make a good point about the high starting unrest reducing the income gained early on, I overlooked this, because, beyond rarely using spoils on nations and honestly managing money poorly, I often employ an unrest reducing councilor early on so I didn't notice the problem. I was thinking about doing a run and making a video focusing on how to generate obscene quantities of money later, but right now I have been attempting to conquer the whole world and will make a video on how to do that next. Thank you for your useful list of spoils nations, if I ever get around to that money video I will certainly find that helpful and might cite your comment in the future, if that is okay with you.

@@mranalytical5255 Yeah, agree that I should run some tests and see if various priority percentages get any kind of "bonus." But if that's not the case it puzzles me why all of the preprogramed allocation (and the AI allocation) are almost all distributed rather than focused? RE: Spoils, I'd argue that employing an unrest reducing councilor on a spoils nation is a terrible waste of precious counselor actions (especially because even just maintaining unrest below "resting" unrest level requires a counselor to run the reduce unrest mission about every other action). But some nations, like Saudi Arabia, becomes a fantastic spoils nation after a year or two because, while it starts with high unrest, its resting unrest value is zero (or at least below 2), so once you let that starting unrest decay it becomes quite valuable. Many of the African nations have the opposite problem; they start with lowish unrest but have high resting values, so they give good returns for the first few months but their IP/turn degrads over time. Happy to have you cite my comment or not, as you prefer. I can also send you my spreadsheet if you propose a way for me to do that. Something I've realized since my original comment is that (1) the order of my list of 2/3 CP nations is wrong and (2) the two and three CP spoils nations are actually quite a bit better than I thought early game (because some % of uncontrolled IP will be devoted to spoils) and become almost exponentially better the more CP you've taken in a single nation. It's not as efficient on per CP limit basis as the single control point nations listed above, but (assuming high influence values and/or good starting support) it only takes three actions to get that income started rather than 8 or so to control a comparable amount number of smaller nations. For example, Canada (which I now think is the best Spoils nation at game start) running at 100% spoils will give you $450/month with 1 CP, $1472/month with 2 CPs, and $3091/month with 3 CPs. Benelux ($2852/month), Taiwan ($2644/month), Australia ($2507/month), Poland ($2495/month), Spain ($2489/month), Gulf States ($2455/month), and Vietnam ($2325/month) are also almost as good, if they turn out to be easier to take in the first week or two.

Depending on how aggressive you are at gaining admin orgs from the marketplace and from opposing councilors and how quickly you gain your fifth and sixth councilor respectively, holding Russia isn't that much of your control point cap. Although, it is still best to pair Russia with a stronger nation, like the USA, India, China or even the EU.

I agree, even if it was just a flat increase gained through the medical techs, it would be a nice addition.

After discovering the immense economic power of the Caliphate, I have been toying around with the idea of starting a game around Saudi Arabia or the East African Federation. Perhaps even making a video spotlighting the nation.

@@mranalytical5255 Honestly wish I had seen this earlier. Running a China game right now where I built up the surrounding countries MC to absorb as soon as I finished the research. Also, figuring out you can sell resources by clicking on them would have helped earlier given one of the sites on the moon for me had around 50 fissiles and a couple years in got hit by a meteor and one successful dice roll increased it by 50%. When I figured out you can sell them I literally had more than 10K saved up so I've gone on a bit of an investment spree.

They are definitely strong choices with great growth potential, although I tend to see great success with India in my games and it seems significantly easier to gain control of compared to China. I recommend you give it a try some time.

@@mranalytical5255 I always grab the US anyways just to deny the aliens and the servants the US military and it's nukes. The alien invasion if they have the US on their side can be rough. Specially if the alien nation annexes the US. I do believe India and even Africa are viable for sure, the growth you can get from a well managed India is awesome, it's just hard to survive since you spend the early game improving them. I do think Russia is a bit of a noob trap. I often just control them long enough to disarm their nukes, then drop them for someone like India or China later when your CP cap is up. USA + China/India is op, you get the US military, plus either India or China, hell I like India in the long term better, it's demographics are much healthier than China or the EU, so they are better than both in the long term. I personally so find the EU overrated, it's not as powerful as the US early on, and by the time you unify it, India can easily overtake them. Hell a United North America also beats the EU with it's great pop growth and high starting stats.

Thanks for the advice. I am new to this sort of thing and just made this video on a whim, but I have been thinking about doing a few more videos in the future.

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