Im like 4hrs in and retsrated multiple times trying Upper Canada and still realize I know nothing of what Im really doing so far....even after watching this I understand very little lol.
Paradox: talks about creating a game where you are ruling a nation from the top. Also Paradox: creates a game where you are choosing which type of axes and showels some random miners in Pennsylvania are using.
Hopefully a game like this helps people understand the power of markets for helping people make decisions and being efficient. Thanks goodness for spontaneous order.
@@zachnar0125 Pretty sure they will make a DLC focused on war since the game's timeline includes WWI, but just don't expect it to be anywhere close to HOI4's lvl of war mechanics.
Don’t worry Paradox games are always like that in the begging but you will soon realise they like in depth They are wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle
Lmao same.... I've played plenty of EU and HOI and legit have no clue what I'm doing here. The only thing keeping me motivated is the feeling of being overwhelmed when I first played EU, then finally getting it after many hours of playing.
@@TheCrayonMan529 Exactly man, it actually feels kinda good. I started EU4 when Rule Britannica first release almost 5 years ago. HOI4 before that, CK3 was actually pretty easy to get into and I had a lot of hours in CK2 already that carried over. It's been a LONG time since I've been this lost in a game, and with Paradox you know its going to be supported for damn near a decade (outside of Imp. Rome). If I had given up on those games at the beginning I would have missed out on some of my favorites of all time. Definitely not complaining, its just *so* different than their other games. Having a blast though
Victoria 3, even after my about 100 hours of gameplay, I still have no idea how the economy works, every game I just become a protectorate of a major power to be a parasite on their economy. So thank you so much for this!
I can see how people might be disappointed by how wars work in this game. I guess you could say it's a very 'radical' change compared to other Paradox games where you're directly in control over units on the battlefield. The combat reminds me a little bit of how Hearts of Iron works, as you just assign commanders to a frontline. The only difference being you can't micromanage individual units. You just have to trust your generals to do a good job. Which is kind of realistic if you think about it.
holy crow, I was just getting the hang of Crusader Kings 3 and now this. I had climbed a hill and was pretty satisfied with myself but now there is a mountain in front of me!
I picked USA bc I feel like since I know somewhat of the history and government structure it’ll be easier to follow and manage without it being too confusing but I’m still confused AF!!! Like I literally don’t know what to do lol all I’ve done so far was click improve relations w Texas, then just looked at the screen unpaused like …. 😀
I knew how complicated this game is, so I chose Belgium as my first country. Wanted to start as the US too but I thought it would be much easier to learn on a small country as Belgium/Netherlands. I wasn't wrong lol. I would recommend picking a very small country somewhere in Europe to learn. It's not gonna be easy to manage such a powerhouse as the US.
@@TeRRm0s That makes sense man. I guess it’s equivalent to picking a King when playing CK3 for the first time. I’ll give Belgium a go today, I think I seen them as an option in the learning tab or one tutorial countries. Any other tips you got ?
@@hoodie5004 Canada is a good one to start with too, small nation to start but with lots of space for expansion, and it's closer to how a US game would go if you want to work your way into that.
@@canadianeh4792 hmm Canada does sound a little better then Belgium. I just got off work and gonna jump in, I think I’ll go w Canada. Have you been playing w them too ?
@@canadianeh4792 hmm Canada does sound a little better then Belgium. I just got off work and gonna jump in, I think I’ll go w Canada. Have you been playing w them too ?
Great video! I'll also share a little trick I've learned from CK3: at 22:05 you can right-click the little broom symbol that appears on the right to clear all notifications ;)
I suspect it will be too much to run if they make the war mechanics anywhere close to hoi4's level, since the game already does tons of calculations with the economy on a level unseen on any other paradox games. I think we will get a DLC focused on war in the future though, since the game's timeline includes WWI, but don't expect that to get the game's war mechanics anywhere close to hoi4's level.
@@thatguyriverside it's a bit more complicated than that. The way you put it it sounds like eu4 works like risk, the boardgame, wich it certainly does not. Btw all paradox Games rely on "dice rolls" even HoI4
Yeah I never played any of the Vic games and I'm gettin the grasp on Vic 3 quite easily. I once tried Vic2 on a free trial, didnt understood a thing, the game crashed and i never bothered to try again lmao. But with Vic 3 I'm kinda learnig as a I play wich i think its the most fun way to learn
After 50 hours of vic3 I can say I grasped around 2% of the game. There were moments in my runs in which I was having a deficit of 500k, no taxes and maximum payments to boh burocrats and army and I was seeing my reserves going up, I guessed was because of "leize-fare" or whatever is the name of the economic law, but how that could happen is just.. vic3. That run ended up with me not having pops to put into industries because all of them already had a job but luckily enough I was sitting on 5k of burocracy and I could import huge quantities of stuff to make them happy.
I got the game and played while a buddy watched we made belgium a terrible place to live and the economy collapsed at least 5 times but it was a blast.
Thank you i was thinking of trying this but now i am realizing this is mostly an economy managing game not as much as conquest as EU4. So yeah looks like an easy skip, managing that stuff would drive me up the wall.
Just got it stumbling thru the Chilean tutorial lol , thought i was too stupid for this game , prolly still am but im trying .. go the kiwis keep doing what your doing jumbo i like your taste in games
Man I have a feeling it’s gonna be like ck3 to me. I see a video on it that gets me so excited buy it. Play it and realise I have no experience so get confused so I just stick to watching vids until eventually I create a cannibalistic Baltic empire and rlly enjoy playing
Watching this coming from about 60 hours on eu4 and 1000+ from hoi4, clocked in about 5 into Victoria and honestly got the hang of it really fast. Just want to know if there’s anything more to learn.
This popped up in my recommenedation and I'm checking this game out now! I have 3,000 hours in Civ 5, i would love to something new, are you guys liking the game?
Get eu4 or ck3. It's very similar but far easier. Get ck3, eu4, vic 3 and hoi4. Then get the converter mod and play through history like civ 5 but far more complicated (former civ player myself)
What does the negative blue number mean? what does the orange bar % mean? Does the negative blue mean the market doesn't need it? There is a shortage? Does orange mean it's to high price to make nobody wants it? Why is there a price and tall coins? Is that mean i gotta pay that to buy my own? do I get that if I ship it?
Only got it yesterday, but this was a problem in V2, too. Years ago, I asked on the forums to explain the flow of production & trade numbers, and how they added up . (they didn't add up, that was the problem). Nobody could explain them precisely, not even the real experts. The replies were generally to not get hung up on the details of the numbers, after all, IRL, states didn't have the info we are given in game anyway. Just get the broad overview "we lack weapon making". Can see that view, but then why does the game throw 845.3 numbers at you per 3.6 screens on average, +10.5 diplomacy penalty? It's like it is *hiding* the info, not presenting it. Will persevere, but V3 feels worse than any other PDX game in this respect so far. Played all their games since EU1 and think a big part of the attraction is that they make those who play them feel very clever - to the point they deliberately avoid simplifying and tidying the game.
They should make a mod where it helps manage things (at least on the economics side) for you depending on what mode you select. I know it's a pillar of the game but it has more micromanagement than Vicky 2 and it would be a turn off for many players
But that is literally the game. If you automate the economy there won't be much else left to do in VIC3 as everything else is keept as simple as possible. That's why wars are the way they are, so that you can focus on the economics instead.
The trade routes that are in high import or export demand seem to be worded backward. I click on things in high demand (export) only to find they are not, it's confusing
the military system. is awful . Not having the possibility like in previous Victoria moving your troops and ships takes off a lot of the fascinating war actions
I'm worried that being...okaish at the military system in Vicky 3 will make me less terrible with the similar military system in HoI4, which I'm awful at. I play enough Paradox already!
For every question that is answered, there are 10 new unanswered question’s😅. Start with the basics, why are some numbers green and some red - go from there haha
I play as Japan. It's about the M O N E Y S and always accumulating more stuff, that's why I have 4 "very basic" questions about the game rules: 1) My Gold Mines are producing 35 gold, but nobody buys it. Where does the gold go? Does it produce wealth anywhere, as if I was able to trade it? 2) Uncollected tax money (due to insufficient Taxation Capacity) stays in people's wallets right? Does that mean that countering the Taxation Capacity deficit in Japan only fills up the government coffers at the expense of the wealth of the people? 3) When you have full gold reserves, but still make a "profit" where does the excess money go that can't be stored as gold? 4) What about so called Wasted Taxes due to low Bureaucracy? Does this money just stay in people's wallets, thereby increasing their wealth? Knowing how the game calculates & handles such simple, but impactful stuff is crucial for determining the best strategies. Thanks for your answers, have a nice day!
gold goes into your gold reserves. so you dont go into debt instantly when you lose money. instead you lose your gold reserves. not sure if uncollected taxes go into peoples pockets. i think that money just evaporates. but i dont know for sure. when you have full gold reserves and still make profit, that profit evaporates. (otherwise it would go into your reserves if there was room for it) you need to be constantly spending excess money so it doesnt go to waste. game isnt designed to be hoarding money, because as in real life, that would mean that inflation would be rising. instead you need to be investing money into more production, and in return get more profit back, that you can invest into even more production. its snowball effect, more you invest, more you get back so you can invest even more. rising your GDP again, not sure about taxes, but i think it doesnt stay in people's wallets. i think it goes waste, but dont know.
@@spatrk6634 Thanks for your answer. I wasn't precise when I wrote "35 gold" - as Isolationist Japan it appears in the Market overview as 35 sell orders with 0 buy orders, under Luxury Goods at a price of exactly 100£. Logic would imply that the 35 gold aren't used for minting, because it's gold bars not coins. Maybe these gold bars can be traded... we'll see later... it's 1855 and maybe I'll open up the Japanese Market before having 30 electrical Textile Mills or so in Kensai. Especially as Japan knowing if Taxation Capacity is a real problem or a relatively "negligible" one makes all the difference. Knowing where resources & money get annihilated ("evaporate" as you elegantly write) is crucial to get good and competitive at the game.
>gets game >skips tutorial because I assume I know what I’m doing >win war against Texas >crash economy a year later due to not knowing how to manage resources and trade
@@EkoFranko I’ll have to play more to fully grasp it myself. From what I understand you want a good base supply for food and raw materials, then I guess move towards industries like tools and such.
I took over all of nigeria cameroon and congo as the uk and maxed out the sugar platations and relied on that i turned queen victoria into a sugar mommy💀
So, that is an expensive victory for Brazil regarding human losses. At 30:04 Brazil has already 22,500 dead and 18,800 wounded troops against 7,280 dead and 8,009 wounded troops at the side of Gráo-Paro. Shame to the Brazilian commander, what a butcher his is for his own troops, the Brazil human losses shall never return home and can't be used any more after the demobilisation in the Brazil economy. By the way, now we can see that the battlefield model is much better as many said with simularities with HoI4 as there exist real units and the generals have real ranks with the compared to their rank realistic limited capacities to command troops effective. And the generals also use changing tactics on the battlefield against each other as in HoI4 battles.
i preordered the game and in the main menu the curosr bugges freezes on the left side of the screen. i adjusted different graphics options in the launcher and my software of nvidia or anything else is updated so wtf is up! i reinstalled it several times and let steam search for corrupted datas. it's just such a pain in the ass...
This game isnt for me... Literally the most important thing for me is war, intrigue, dominance, absolutely and vicious violence, RPG elements.. Basically things you expect from a grand strategy game where nations compete with each other.. I guess this game will please players that like economy, politics and social dynamics simulators.
@@JumboPixel Argentina. During the Victorian era, it was an economic powerhouse. Its location means it has room to expand in South America and on the world stage as an emerging power in 1836. Who knows, maybe you end up having a large base of Portuguese and Indigenous language-speaking interest groups to balance with your own?
Dear Sir, would be willing to explain to me why even when using an unlimited gold reserves cheat i still screw up my living standard and my people starve? Do i build to many buildings or choose the wrong goverment types?
A beginners guide that actually was a beginners guide would be pretty handy. Too bad this isn't it. Though I did learn something useful, what institutions are, hovering on the tool tip tells you what they do, not what they are, or where to find them, so thanks for showing that. So starting the game in tutorial mode I select Chile, games starts I go through basic instructions and then unpause the game. Game highlights Journal says build a livestock farm, so far so good. Journal has a second entry, Fix capacity deficit, wtf. OK I click on it and up comes a message, Restore bureaucracy balance. OK, go with the how to fix a capacity deficit instructions, and by the time I reach the end I knew less than when I started. So it does tell me that Institution Investment level might be a thing to deal with this problem. A hotlink to the institutions section of the politics screen would also have been helpful. As we all know Paradox doesn't do helpful. So two hours later and thanks to your video,I go to institutions and see I have level 2 colonialism, so click on level one colonialism and get the message, changing to level 1 50 weeks. Really mor than a year? The game only covers a hundred. Chile has a bureaucracy defict of 25.6, On your video Spain has a bureaucracy deficit of 206. Im guessing you will have that fixed around 1928, or am I missing something? So as a beginners guide, how about a video on fixing Spain's bureaucracy deficit, which would actually help some of us beginners get started.
Guide completely skips how construction costs are calculated, alas. Doesn't it? And it is essential to understand why construction can be so expensive. Also, where do you see how much goods you produce vs your domestic demands?
Warfare is pretty bad…so bad…it is about production methods, if you are advanced but can’t keep up the production you lose, if the supply lines are too long, you lose, if you can produce everything but your economy is not so strong you will bleed out, and somehow the game does not tell you this at all, that you can’t go to war without going bankrupt…
I don't understand politics, pop and war system at all in this game, and one more thing we need little bit simpler section what our population needs...
press "market" or F4 sort by market price higher the price for the good, higher the demand for it by your population so you produce more of it or import more of it until the market price drops. if market price drops too much, people will stop working in those factories because salary will drop. so you need to keep balance if you are producing too much of something that market price is too low. consider exporting that goods, so the demand raises again. its real life economy simulator.
@@aztekenen1 Yeah it's an old game, but its mechanics work way better and have more depth than anything Vic3 currently has to offer, and for a fraction of the price. With the HPM vic 2 is still great
@@mdc123-v2v But Vic only had 2 DLCs and way more content at lauch. Sorry I don't wan't to pay AAA prices for a game that will only become a good sucessor after 3+ DLCs. I actually was hyped for vic3 and was willing to give them a chance, I really do hope they fix the game. It's not that I hate change, I'm just not a shill.
i took all your advices , started with afghanistan , took persia and nearly everyone around me as puppets or simply conquered em , grew really big and then fckn murica came and freed everyone i captured in last 10 years. like can this country stop stickin his nose everywhere at least in a video game? and yes i'm mad and yes i deleted that whole save file.
I popped the game open as soon as it became avaliable and mucked about for a good 2 hours and realized I understood nothing lmao so thank you for this
We’ve all been there. I played for two hours and only managed to bankrupt South Africa
@Boon2000 aww, the game is fun actually. No need to refund because it has a learning curve 😢
Same lol. Tho I probably shouldn’t have picked Mexico as my first game
2 hours ? Wtf was you doing clearly not tryna learn the game build factory’s and micro the market ez
Im like 4hrs in and retsrated multiple times trying Upper Canada and still realize I know nothing of what Im really doing so far....even after watching this I understand very little lol.
Paradox: talks about creating a game where you are ruling a nation from the top.
Also Paradox: creates a game where you are choosing which type of axes and showels some random miners in Pennsylvania are using.
A task fitting for the El Presidente himself!
Tis what killed this game for me. The amount of micro-management makes USSR seem like a laisse faire nation.
Hopefully a game like this helps people understand the power of markets for helping people make decisions and being efficient. Thanks goodness for spontaneous order.
@@Smithistory lol markets are fake bullshit
@@eddie8998 says a guy talking to me from a device over the internet.... Straight out of the Jetsons but also part of real life.
Thank you very much. Came from HOI4 thinking it would be similar. Now that I’ve played for 4 hours I understood I did not know what I was doing.
yep same
Same
They've actually made a game with more micro management than vic2. Tis quite an achievement.
Amen!
Except for the war mechanics.
that's so cap junior
@@anindahalder7062 Yes 😥 Hope they expand later on but doubt it.
@@zachnar0125 Pretty sure they will make a DLC focused on war since the game's timeline includes WWI, but just don't expect it to be anywhere close to HOI4's lvl of war mechanics.
You know it’s a paradox game when the guides are 30mins long if not longer.. To 1-2hours long lol, great job man :D
Haha too right! I’m also working on some slightly smaller, focused or themed guides too so there are some more digestible vids here too 🙂
First game I've played where I was confused while even playing the tutorial.
the tutorial is constantly saying "wich will be explained later"
There’s a tutorial?
Don’t worry
Paradox games are always like that in the begging but you will soon realise they like in depth
They are wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle
@@caio5987 to real
@@kevinperalta6721 And then proceeds to not explain anything except in those tutorial missions that randomly pop up through out the years.
I have thousands of hours in other Paradox games and this is my first Vic game. I'm going to need like 6 more of these videos please, thank you. Lol
Lmao same.... I've played plenty of EU and HOI and legit have no clue what I'm doing here. The only thing keeping me motivated is the feeling of being overwhelmed when I first played EU, then finally getting it after many hours of playing.
@@TheCrayonMan529 Exactly man, it actually feels kinda good. I started EU4 when Rule Britannica first release almost 5 years ago. HOI4 before that, CK3 was actually pretty easy to get into and I had a lot of hours in CK2 already that carried over.
It's been a LONG time since I've been this lost in a game, and with Paradox you know its going to be supported for damn near a decade (outside of Imp. Rome).
If I had given up on those games at the beginning I would have missed out on some of my favorites of all time.
Definitely not complaining, its just *so* different than their other games. Having a blast though
I started with CK3. How do you think I feel?
@@wheelman1324 RIP
@@TheCrayonMan529 I’m better than most people at managing my succession in CK3! That just makes me sound like I kill my sons… (ahem)
Victoria 3, even after my about 100 hours of gameplay, I still have no idea how the economy works, every game I just become a protectorate of a major power to be a parasite on their economy. So thank you so much for this!
I can see how people might be disappointed by how wars work in this game. I guess you could say it's a very 'radical' change compared to other Paradox games where you're directly in control over units on the battlefield.
The combat reminds me a little bit of how Hearts of Iron works, as you just assign commanders to a frontline. The only difference being you can't micromanage individual units.
You just have to trust your generals to do a good job. Which is kind of realistic if you think about it.
The war is all about your production…
@@darkpaladin18 cost and production. I've thrown away millions on wars raising too many regiments, still won them all though
this is the best guide ive seen today, thanks for keeping it simple while staying on topic with the basics!
You presented this video really well. It's the perfect compliment to the game's main tutorials and "why/how do I do this" system.
This is what I've been waiting for!
For all the four hours it's been out?
@@earlofdoncaster5018 For all the time that I find myself lost in paradox games in general, to see if this one is going to be more my speed.
Just learning how to reorder the building que alone was worth watching the video for.
holy crow, I was just getting the hang of Crusader Kings 3 and now this. I had climbed a hill and was pretty satisfied with myself but now there is a mountain in front of me!
Indeed. CK3 is child's play compared to this. Expect to sink around 300 hrs before you get the hang of it lol
@@lloyd9500 don’t say that:,(
Ck3 took maybe 30 mins to figure out
@@elbronkhido7409 alright there genius
@@lloyd9500 I mean the basics of the game not all the stuff
just a SHORT 30 min tutorial to be able to start playing this game :)) I love it!
I picked USA bc I feel like since I know somewhat of the history and government structure it’ll be easier to follow and manage without it being too confusing but I’m still confused AF!!! Like I literally don’t know what to do lol all I’ve done so far was click improve relations w Texas, then just looked at the screen unpaused like …. 😀
I knew how complicated this game is, so I chose Belgium as my first country. Wanted to start as the US too but I thought it would be much easier to learn on a small country as Belgium/Netherlands. I wasn't wrong lol. I would recommend picking a very small country somewhere in Europe to learn. It's not gonna be easy to manage such a powerhouse as the US.
@@TeRRm0s That makes sense man. I guess it’s equivalent to picking a King when playing CK3 for the first time. I’ll give Belgium a go today, I think I seen them as an option in the learning tab or one tutorial countries. Any other tips you got ?
@@hoodie5004 Canada is a good one to start with too, small nation to start but with lots of space for expansion, and it's closer to how a US game would go if you want to work your way into that.
@@canadianeh4792 hmm Canada does sound a little better then Belgium. I just got off work and gonna jump in, I think I’ll go w Canada. Have you been playing w them too ?
@@canadianeh4792 hmm Canada does sound a little better then Belgium. I just got off work and gonna jump in, I think I’ll go w Canada. Have you been playing w them too ?
Great video! I'll also share a little trick I've learned from CK3: at 22:05 you can right-click the little broom symbol that appears on the right to clear all notifications ;)
Thanks for this video. Nice pace and with everything to jump right into it
Vic 3 economy and micro management
Hoi4 combat
Civ2 length of game
The best game ever.
Great guide! Never played a Vic game and Vic 3 is my first.
Was hoping the military side would be more fleshed out. Bummed how most games have to be either economy or military and not both having depth.
agreeeeee
Uh EU4 is solid on both
@@animaltown1234 Dude EU4 uses dices rolls for both battles and sieges
I suspect it will be too much to run if they make the war mechanics anywhere close to hoi4's level, since the game already does tons of calculations with the economy on a level unseen on any other paradox games. I think we will get a DLC focused on war in the future though, since the game's timeline includes WWI, but don't expect that to get the game's war mechanics anywhere close to hoi4's level.
@@thatguyriverside it's a bit more complicated than that. The way you put it it sounds like eu4 works like risk, the boardgame, wich it certainly does not.
Btw all paradox Games rely on "dice rolls" even HoI4
Vic 3 was actually easier for me to get into than Vic 2. I'm playing my tutorial campaign as Japan right now. It's so much fun!
Yeah I never played any of the Vic games and I'm gettin the grasp on Vic 3 quite easily. I once tried Vic2 on a free trial, didnt understood a thing, the game crashed and i never bothered to try again lmao. But with Vic 3 I'm kinda learnig as a I play wich i think its the most fun way to learn
@@gabrieldossantos1116 yes, the tutorial in Vic 2 was not it lol. Which country do you play as? :0
even the tutorial got me so fucking confused LMAO jesust but regardless this game looks like tons of fun so im hoping to get better soon
Hey cool Video. I was part of the Bokoen raid, happy belated birthday.
After 50 hours of vic3 I can say I grasped around 2% of the game. There were moments in my runs in which I was having a deficit of 500k, no taxes and maximum payments to boh burocrats and army and I was seeing my reserves going up, I guessed was because of "leize-fare" or whatever is the name of the economic law, but how that could happen is just.. vic3.
That run ended up with me not having pops to put into industries because all of them already had a job but luckily enough I was sitting on 5k of burocracy and I could import huge quantities of stuff to make them happy.
They need to fix the tutorial for this game lol, it lead me straight to civil war, thanks for the video!
Real men rawdogged the game
Straightforward and touches on everything I seem to need to get started. I appreciate it!
You are a great content creator. You need way more Subs.
I got the game and played while a buddy watched we made belgium a terrible place to live and the economy collapsed at least 5 times but it was a blast.
There's a lot to the game but this is an excellent teaching video, nicely done. 👍
Fantastic video mate
This video seriously helped.. thanks man!
OMG! I love you thaks for your tutorial!
5:10 I've been changing the production method by clicking the state like a caveman when we got this panel
0:58 ah yes paradox, staple goods are in fact staple goods, thanks for the help
Beginner guide for unrecognized nations please.
I came from CK3, and this game is very, very different.
Thank you i was thinking of trying this but now i am realizing this is mostly an economy managing game not as much as conquest as EU4. So yeah looks like an easy skip, managing that stuff would drive me up the wall.
Just got it stumbling thru the Chilean tutorial lol , thought i was too stupid for this game , prolly still am but im trying .. go the kiwis keep doing what your doing jumbo i like your taste in games
Man I have a feeling it’s gonna be like ck3 to me. I see a video on it that gets me so excited buy it. Play it and realise I have no experience so get confused so I just stick to watching vids until eventually I create a cannibalistic Baltic empire and rlly enjoy playing
i got an ad about not playing victoria 3 and insted playing victoria 2
What? Nooo i want to see it
@4:30 How did you come to this screen? You move screens without showing how.!
Based Video 👍
Elective course: Paradox.
Watching this coming from about 60 hours on eu4 and 1000+ from hoi4, clocked in about 5 into Victoria and honestly got the hang of it really fast. Just want to know if there’s anything more to learn.
Good vid.
This popped up in my recommenedation and I'm checking this game out now!
I have 3,000 hours in Civ 5, i would love to something new, are you guys liking the game?
Get eu4 or ck3. It's very similar but far easier. Get ck3, eu4, vic 3 and hoi4. Then get the converter mod and play through history like civ 5 but far more complicated (former civ player myself)
What does the negative blue number mean? what does the orange bar % mean? Does the negative blue mean the market doesn't need it? There is a shortage? Does orange mean it's to high price to make nobody wants it? Why is there a price and tall coins? Is that mean i gotta pay that to buy my own? do I get that if I ship it?
Only got it yesterday, but this was a problem in V2, too. Years ago, I asked on the forums to explain the flow of production & trade numbers, and how they added up . (they didn't add up, that was the problem). Nobody could explain them precisely, not even the real experts. The replies were generally to not get hung up on the details of the numbers, after all, IRL, states didn't have the info we are given in game anyway. Just get the broad overview "we lack weapon making". Can see that view, but then why does the game throw 845.3 numbers at you per 3.6 screens on average, +10.5 diplomacy penalty? It's like it is *hiding* the info, not presenting it. Will persevere, but V3 feels worse than any other PDX game in this respect so far.
Played all their games since EU1 and think a big part of the attraction is that they make those who play them feel very clever - to the point they deliberately avoid simplifying and tidying the game.
Respect!
Is the game ready to play in its current state? Or should we wait for a couple of updates/DLCs?
i cant wait to save the world and never give womens suffrage
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They should make a mod where it helps manage things (at least on the economics side) for you depending on what mode you select. I know it's a pillar of the game but it has more micromanagement than Vicky 2 and it would be a turn off for many players
But that is literally the game. If you automate the economy there won't be much else left to do in VIC3 as everything else is keept as simple as possible.
That's why wars are the way they are, so that you can focus on the economics instead.
this makes chess look simple
I can't believe mods were already out mere hours after release
Any good ones you recommend?
My friend sent me your stream last night i watched a bit of it and liked it, since you tried victoria 3 will you ever try hoi4?
ALSO you need more subs :)
I love HOI4 - but I’ve fallen behind on it’s releases and DLC 😞
@@JumboPixel aw dang
@@JumboPixel well if you ever want to do mods or something hit me up i have most dlc and ill be getting by blood alone when its on sale
So glad im not the only one lost as sh*t
I wuold like too see a guide to Denmark
This game is giving me a headache, idk what I’m doing 😂
The trade routes that are in high import or export demand seem to be worded backward. I click on things in high demand (export) only to find they are not, it's confusing
OH MY GOD HAHAHA LOVE THIS
Increase in price should go up to 200% and decrease by 90% to be a bit more realistic!
is it possible for wars to last several years? Or does war support fall to quickly?
How do you record? I tried to record with OBS, but it's "stuck" on the main menu when I record and play "in" the game.
Sometimes OBS, other times Shadowplay/ GeForce! Maybe give Nvidia’s software a try.
the military system. is awful . Not having the possibility like in previous Victoria moving your troops and ships takes off a lot of the fascinating war actions
I'm worried that being...okaish at the military system in Vicky 3 will make me less terrible with the similar military system in HoI4, which I'm awful at. I play enough Paradox already!
what on earth is that peace conference at 0:24
For every question that is answered, there are 10 new unanswered question’s😅. Start with the basics, why are some numbers green and some red - go from there haha
I play as Japan. It's about the M O N E Y S and always accumulating more stuff, that's why I have 4 "very basic" questions about the game rules:
1) My Gold Mines are producing 35 gold, but nobody buys it. Where does the gold go? Does it produce wealth anywhere, as if I was able to trade it?
2) Uncollected tax money (due to insufficient Taxation Capacity) stays in people's wallets right? Does that mean that countering the Taxation Capacity deficit in Japan only fills up the government coffers at the expense of the wealth of the people?
3) When you have full gold reserves, but still make a "profit" where does the excess money go that can't be stored as gold?
4) What about so called Wasted Taxes due to low Bureaucracy? Does this money just stay in people's wallets, thereby increasing their wealth?
Knowing how the game calculates & handles such simple, but impactful stuff is crucial for determining the best strategies. Thanks for your answers, have a nice day!
gold goes into your gold reserves.
so you dont go into debt instantly when you lose money. instead you lose your gold reserves.
not sure if uncollected taxes go into peoples pockets.
i think that money just evaporates. but i dont know for sure.
when you have full gold reserves and still make profit, that profit evaporates. (otherwise it would go into your reserves if there was room for it)
you need to be constantly spending excess money so it doesnt go to waste.
game isnt designed to be hoarding money,
because as in real life, that would mean that inflation would be rising.
instead you need to be investing money into more production, and in return get more profit back, that you can invest into even more production.
its snowball effect, more you invest, more you get back so you can invest even more.
rising your GDP
again, not sure about taxes, but i think it doesnt stay in people's wallets.
i think it goes waste, but dont know.
@@spatrk6634 Thanks for your answer. I wasn't precise when I wrote "35 gold" - as Isolationist Japan it appears in the Market overview as 35 sell orders with 0 buy orders, under Luxury Goods at a price of exactly 100£.
Logic would imply that the 35 gold aren't used for minting, because it's gold bars not coins. Maybe these gold bars can be traded... we'll see later... it's 1855 and maybe I'll open up the Japanese Market before having 30 electrical Textile Mills or so in Kensai.
Especially as Japan knowing if Taxation Capacity is a real problem or a relatively "negligible" one makes all the difference. Knowing where resources & money get annihilated ("evaporate" as you elegantly write) is crucial to get good and competitive at the game.
Too many options do the same thing. makes things harder to get to grips with and makes things clunky & messy.
If they make politics section more simple and fix warfare system this will be best strategy game...
its paradox games.
they will make DLC/s for those things.
I played the cracked version and things changed a lot. I managed to run Sweden into the ground trying to learn the game
>gets game
>skips tutorial because I assume I know what I’m doing
>win war against Texas
>crash economy a year later due to not knowing how to manage resources and trade
Ingame tutorial is absolutely useless
@@EkoFranko Paradox continuing their tradition of bad tutorials lol
@@s7robin105 i cant understand what kind of goods should i produce and why not instruments
@@EkoFranko I’ll have to play more to fully grasp it myself. From what I understand you want a good base supply for food and raw materials, then I guess move towards industries like tools and such.
@@s7robin105 stellaris has a pretty good tutorial
I took over all of nigeria cameroon and congo as the uk and maxed out the sugar platations and relied on that i turned queen victoria into a sugar mommy💀
So, that is an expensive victory for Brazil regarding human losses. At 30:04 Brazil has already 22,500 dead and 18,800 wounded troops against 7,280 dead and 8,009 wounded troops at the side of Gráo-Paro. Shame to the Brazilian commander, what a butcher his is for his own troops, the Brazil human losses shall never return home and can't be used any more after the demobilisation in the Brazil economy. By the way, now we can see that the battlefield model is much better as many said with simularities with HoI4 as there exist real units and the generals have real ranks with the compared to their rank realistic limited capacities to command troops effective. And the generals also use changing tactics on the battlefield against each other as in HoI4 battles.
i preordered the game and in the main menu the curosr bugges freezes on the left side of the screen. i adjusted different graphics options in the launcher and my software of nvidia or anything else is updated so wtf is up! i reinstalled it several times and let steam search for corrupted datas. it's just such a pain in the ass...
I came from clash of clans. Very overwhelmed
thanks
This game isnt for me... Literally the most important thing for me is war, intrigue, dominance, absolutely and vicious violence, RPG elements..
Basically things you expect from a grand strategy game where nations compete with each other..
I guess this game will please players that like economy, politics and social dynamics simulators.
Even this beginner's guide is complicated as hell. I think I'll stick with EU4
Off work, game downloaded, tutorial up, it's time to micromanage.
vic3 devs don't like the word "micromanage"
Plz do a playthrough
Who should I play?
@@JumboPixel Krakow
@@JumboPixel Argentina. During the Victorian era, it was an economic powerhouse. Its location means it has room to expand in South America and on the world stage as an emerging power in 1836. Who knows, maybe you end up having a large base of Portuguese and Indigenous language-speaking interest groups to balance with your own?
@@JumboPixel Russia
@@JumboPixel piedmont to form italy, or prussia to form germany
Dear Sir, would be willing to explain to me why even when using an unlimited gold reserves cheat i still screw up my living standard and my people starve? Do i build to many buildings or choose the wrong goverment types?
Paradox vet here with 1000s of hours... Halp I'm so confused!
A beginners guide that actually was a beginners guide would be pretty handy. Too bad this isn't it. Though I did learn something useful, what institutions are, hovering on the tool tip tells you what they do, not what they are, or where to find them, so thanks for showing that. So starting the game in tutorial mode I select Chile, games starts I go through basic instructions and then unpause the game. Game highlights Journal says build a livestock farm, so far so good. Journal has a second entry, Fix capacity deficit, wtf. OK I click on it and up comes a message, Restore bureaucracy balance. OK, go with the how to fix a capacity deficit instructions, and by the time I reach the end I knew less than when I started. So it does tell me that Institution Investment level might be a thing to deal with this problem. A hotlink to the institutions section of the politics screen would also have been helpful. As we all know Paradox doesn't do helpful. So two hours later and thanks to your video,I go to institutions and see I have level 2 colonialism, so click on level one colonialism and get the message, changing to level 1 50 weeks. Really mor than a year? The game only covers a hundred. Chile has a bureaucracy defict of 25.6, On your video Spain has a bureaucracy deficit of 206. Im guessing you will have that fixed around 1928, or am I missing something? So as a beginners guide, how about a video on fixing Spain's bureaucracy deficit, which would actually help some of us beginners get started.
Guide completely skips how construction costs are calculated, alas. Doesn't it? And it is essential to understand why construction can be so expensive. Also, where do you see how much goods you produce vs your domestic demands?
Warfare is pretty bad…so bad…it is about production methods, if you are advanced but can’t keep up the production you lose, if the supply lines are too long, you lose, if you can produce everything but your economy is not so strong you will bleed out, and somehow the game does not tell you this at all, that you can’t go to war without going bankrupt…
Soo many fucking tabs, wish they condensed it a bit
for some reason i have a costal state with millions of pops reduced to 70k in a decade after i built rail, why ? i have plenty of jobs and no workers
ALSO THERE'S QUEEN ISABELLA II OF SPAIN!!!
this game is for nobz. Click trade tab --> check demand --> build high demand goods --> repeat.
Why is the military lens Alt+4? Is this meant to be a joke paradox? Are you meaning to say the military in Victoria 3 is a joke?
I don't understand politics, pop and war system at all in this game, and one more thing we need little bit simpler section what our population needs...
press "market" or F4
sort by market price
higher the price for the good, higher the demand for it by your population
so you produce more of it or import more of it until the market price drops.
if market price drops too much, people will stop working in those factories because salary will drop.
so you need to keep balance
if you are producing too much of something that market price is too low.
consider exporting that goods, so the demand raises again.
its real life economy simulator.
You have a 100 tops 😅
Victoria 3 is the definition of masochism.
You sound like UK PM
1) One don't waste your money
2) Buy Vic2
3) Actually enjoy a good game
Here is a simplified guide
vicky 2 sadly has a crap ton of economic bugs and needs mods to fill out africa and have more flavour.
@@aztekenen1 Yeah it's an old game, but its mechanics work way better and have more depth than anything Vic3 currently has to offer, and for a fraction of the price. With the HPM vic 2 is still great
@@FM_1819 quite doubt that. I played vic 2 found it lacking in several things. It is great and fun but not that great
@@mdc123-v2v But Vic only had 2 DLCs and way more content at lauch. Sorry I don't wan't to pay AAA prices for a game that will only become a good sucessor after 3+ DLCs. I actually was hyped for vic3 and was willing to give them a chance, I really do hope they fix the game. It's not that I hate change, I'm just not a shill.
Okk, more or less you need a Harvard Economics degree to play this game...
i took all your advices , started with afghanistan , took persia and nearly everyone around me as puppets or simply conquered em , grew really big and then fckn murica came and freed everyone i captured in last 10 years. like can this country stop stickin his nose everywhere at least in a video game? and yes i'm mad and yes i deleted that whole save file.
oh brother an i thought hoi4 was complicate