Agriculturalize the USA - A good start strategy in Victoria 3 by An Economist Plays 

Hail Columbia mod author here, hope you enjoy the playthrough with the mod! I will warn you that there are some incompatibilities with the Gilded Age mod. Texas starts as a protectorate which stops it from asking for statehood, and Gilded Age has some events that will spawn characters that HC already implements, creating duplicates.

Video summary: Well fed drunk lumberjacks are the backbone of an industrializing economy

Nice to hear that you now consider decrees more powerful after our discussion! 😁 And thank you for the mention at the end of the video. One other advantage of throughput decrees I forgot to mention is that it will alter the behavior of the private investment pool, as they will build more in states with active decrees. For example, a resource decree on Pennsylvania will not only increase profitability of existing buildings the private sector will also prefer to build more of those building there IF you have available infrastructure. This will also work for agriculture in Ohio. The road maintenance decrees should also effect the investment pool's decisions provided that ROI is used in the decision making process, although I don't know how to find out if this is the case in game. What mod increases the size and number of the decentralized nations? That looks much more realistic for 1836 than the base game.

All I do is play USA with your mod list so glad to see this. I feel like the game is made for USA playthroughs.

I think a less pleasant way to phrase that introduction is that if you need cheap industrial labour that'll ask for little, you might want to kick people out of agriculture first. Make them need the job. At least that's how it worked in a lot of places in Europe. Enclosures and all that stuff.

In vanilla I found building farms ineffective at keeping the grain price low, you can’t build them fast enough. Importing grain from Qing was the way to go.

There is actually a reason you’ll be getting more wood when switching logging camps over to rail transportation. It’s because if a logging camp has hired 4,000/5,000 laborers it would be producing 80% of its output. Then, if you were to switch over to rail transport, its maximum laborers would be reduced to 4,000, so it would suddenly then be producing 100% of its output. :)

Another Texan with an economics degree who plays vicky3??? subbed!

Been waiting patiently through France for the USA play! ~thank you

The US is by far the easiest economy to manage in this game because of it's high resources, high migration, especially it's gold and oil. Which is what happened in real life.

recently found your channel, I really like how you explain each action thoughtfully and tie in the real-world historical context; the modlist is awesome by the way - I just had to disable political and economic changes since I'm not very good at vic3 yet and felt that the currency system was a bit overwhelming. all in all, great video and keep it up!

Very Excited for this new series. Love the content!

Any word on maybe a Netherlands playthrough at some point? :) I like rooting for the little guys and they seem pretty alright to me - We also have our share of genocides! hurray... Fucking VoC...

As a European, corn is the same as grain, while maize is the proper name of the plant.

Have you played using the great revision mod, id highly recomend it. It allows you to individually micro your tax rates for income, per-capita, land and dividends taxes.

Is that uncolonised America patch change or some mod?

I subbed.

You're in TX? Hey! A local boy. I need a tutorial

How do i get peasants out of subsistence farms, thats the thing i struggle with the most. If i overbuild farms/plantations to get tid of subsistence farms, the buildings get automatically removed if they arent profitable

Do you remember your President Nixon? Do you remember the bills you have to pay, or even yesterday? As the biggest David Bowie fan I’ve ever personally met, I appreciate the title of this series.