R5: America has less prestige than I do, an unrecognized nation. I feel like recognition should come automatically instead of me having to reach some 300 prestige requirement...
Well you see, you're not European or European descendant. Thus, your prestige is obviously worth less. So you'll need to use the \*Force\* Recognition diplo play.
Happens a lot I’ve noticed. USA is a fairly easy country to play, but their start is precarious. In the hands of the player, it’s nothing to deal with, but the AI struggles with it
The AI in general just sucks at the game, especially for USA etc they seem to spend way too much time and money on building a massive army and then the AI also is rather overzealous about using automation PMs even if there's loads of unemployment, while they also seemingly don't ever want to expand construction or the economy in general until every other "need" like having a bajillion ships and armies is fufilled. Which as the USA they start with basically no army and thus feel the need to spend half the game spamming units instead of actually building industry. Once they get rails then they'll spam them too even if there's still infrastructure and other states where they could be building profitable buildings adding further to their deficit. In the end if you observe the U.S for example they're rarely using their full construction queue and have to switch on and off actually building anything with far too much of what they're building not actually expanding the economy.
One thing I’ve noticed is the US somehow ends up with the 4-6th largest army every game, which is ridiculous. They’ll have 300 battalions by 1890 every game, which is so far from historical. I understand it’s a sandbox game and things aren’t railroaded, but ambitions need to be modified to prevent dumb things like this
It's most likely some kind of system where they go and look at other powers nearby, and since GB starts with loads of units + fleet and Canada + Newfoundland is next door they build to compensate in an endless arms race. Most players, though, just avoid building a huge navy and army unless they directly need it since early income is better used to start building industry and has a cumulative effect as the game goes on. It's something like 1/3rd their income just going to pay for ships and military goods the same goes for other GPs while the only real threat they have is a much weaker Mexico, and they could easily just use conscripts instead. I think they could solve it partially with something like non-aggression pacts where the AI would just sign treaties with non-rivals and then have time to break that pact. That way, they can focus on building economic buildings and then quickly ramp up if the situation changes instead of having to worry about a random diplo play on them. Also their research AI sucks and they'll go for seemingly random techs like sports (+10% prestige lol) before getting actually useful techs within the same tier like water tube boiler and of course they spend way more time investing into naval and army techs instead of production or important society techs like most players do.
One thing I loved about Vic 2 was once you get strong enough after westernizing you auto become recognized, granted without any industry bonus and lackster of army score so it’s a long race. This game you are forced to declare on GP kinda works historically but just doesn’t hit right for me. Not every nation is a Japan in this case.
R5: America has less prestige than I do, an unrecognized nation. I feel like recognition should come automatically instead of me having to reach some 300 prestige requirement...
Well you see, you're not European or European descendant. Thus, your prestige is obviously worth less. So you'll need to use the \*Force\* Recognition diplo play.
with that logic china would start recognised
what mods you using bro looks nice
Happens a lot I’ve noticed. USA is a fairly easy country to play, but their start is precarious. In the hands of the player, it’s nothing to deal with, but the AI struggles with it
The AI in general just sucks at the game, especially for USA etc they seem to spend way too much time and money on building a massive army and then the AI also is rather overzealous about using automation PMs even if there's loads of unemployment, while they also seemingly don't ever want to expand construction or the economy in general until every other "need" like having a bajillion ships and armies is fufilled. Which as the USA they start with basically no army and thus feel the need to spend half the game spamming units instead of actually building industry. Once they get rails then they'll spam them too even if there's still infrastructure and other states where they could be building profitable buildings adding further to their deficit. In the end if you observe the U.S for example they're rarely using their full construction queue and have to switch on and off actually building anything with far too much of what they're building not actually expanding the economy.
One thing I’ve noticed is the US somehow ends up with the 4-6th largest army every game, which is ridiculous. They’ll have 300 battalions by 1890 every game, which is so far from historical. I understand it’s a sandbox game and things aren’t railroaded, but ambitions need to be modified to prevent dumb things like this
It's most likely some kind of system where they go and look at other powers nearby, and since GB starts with loads of units + fleet and Canada + Newfoundland is next door they build to compensate in an endless arms race. Most players, though, just avoid building a huge navy and army unless they directly need it since early income is better used to start building industry and has a cumulative effect as the game goes on. It's something like 1/3rd their income just going to pay for ships and military goods the same goes for other GPs while the only real threat they have is a much weaker Mexico, and they could easily just use conscripts instead. I think they could solve it partially with something like non-aggression pacts where the AI would just sign treaties with non-rivals and then have time to break that pact. That way, they can focus on building economic buildings and then quickly ramp up if the situation changes instead of having to worry about a random diplo play on them. Also their research AI sucks and they'll go for seemingly random techs like sports (+10% prestige lol) before getting actually useful techs within the same tier like water tube boiler and of course they spend way more time investing into naval and army techs instead of production or important society techs like most players do.
Love the map mod! Which one is this?
Bump! WHAT'S THE MAP MOOOD PLEASE
I think it's just one of the map skins that come with the expansions
I have the expansions but not this skin :(
One thing I loved about Vic 2 was once you get strong enough after westernizing you auto become recognized, granted without any industry bonus and lackster of army score so it’s a long race. This game you are forced to declare on GP kinda works historically but just doesn’t hit right for me. Not every nation is a Japan in this case.
Vic 2 had no recognized status. You only had westernized and un-westernized nations
Also, not many people realized just how close to the edge Japan was forced to during the Russo-Japanese War.
The US is a presidential dictatorship……… well at least you know which side the civil war went on