How to Play Victoria II 

Can you explain cuture and subsequent conversion?

@@alexanderlipowsky6055 Sure! The culture of a PoP is very important. Each country has accepted cultures, and PoPs who are part of an accepted culture are much more useful than those of non-accepted cultures. Most notably: PoPs of accepted cultures contribute to how many national focuses you have, and are far less likely to cause rebellions. PoPs in your country will assimilate to your primary culture over time. The speed of assimilation is based on a bunch of factors. Most notable are decisions and your ruling party's citizenship policy, with broader citizenship policies increasing the rate of assimilation. You can read more about it here: vic2.paradoxwikis.com/Assimilation I hope this helps!

@@CallMeEzekiel so, run your country well and hope for the best if you are not the us, us get more ppl of primary culture everywhere and wait, whulest getting more immigration? Running a Prussia to megagermany, but cant wrap my head around how i can assimilate the slavs and hungarians to germanic culture. Now it seems, i should get every luxury good i can, buy and sell to pops and get literacy to 70%+ to have any chance of achieving that

I feel like you left out two nations of far greater importance in the game than, say, France. However, for a human player, normally only one is relatively 'playable'. Allow me to illustrate: First, the 'unplayable' one, namely India. The real importance of India in this game is simple - keep the United Kingdom at that sweet spot of Great Power #1. Through her colonies in India (or the entire India to be precise), Britain secures the vast majority of the raw materials her industry requires. In early game, India is the only source of natural dyes, and later on, tea plantations in India helps the UK break the monopoly on the beverage previously held by China. In addition, India provides the UK with dozens of brigades and naval bases, which her other colonies just lack. If the human player wishes to become #1 through military means, weakening their position in India is the best strategy. It's a shame that India is next to impossible to form without incredible skill and luck, and foreign intervention of course, the UK in the game is really good at putting out rebellions in India. Then, onto the 'playable' one, and that would be China. The importance of China lies in her potential, which, when fully unleashed, can not only rival any other nation, but can also break game mechanics. In a population-oriented game, the nation with more than twice the population than the next biggest two nations combined automatically wins. The developers had to lock China behind heavy restrictions, fracture the nation up, separate the largest culture(han) into north and south han, which, as a Chinese myself and any other Chinese just find ridiculous, and gave the pops much lower literacy than Japan, with a government with less than 3% of the pop as accepted. These usually manage to keep an AI-controlled China behind bars for the entire game, but not nearly enough to stop a decent player. Once she gets through all the disasters and humiliations the world or herself brought on her, China shakes off her shackles and will become #1 Great Power even without wars(hinting at you, Germany), in 30 years at most. You might not have time to read through all that I have written above, or might disagree with me on some matters, but I just wanted to share with you the fact that someone out there loves this game as much as you do. I have learned so much about history in this game and through further reading that I can even embarass some high school history teachers. And I do feel like that players of this game, especially those who learned the basic mechanics and wish to try their hand at guiding their nation towards beating UK at the game named after their queen, they have to learn about China and India, and their signifcance in this process. However, these nations are almost never mentioned by the majority of players. I would absolutely feel honored if you could make a video on these nations. Anyway, I have rambled on for long enough. Thank you for reading.:)

Well hopefully when i get a computer or laptop that can maybe withstand this game, ill get this game as my first.

@@grenadaball7655 you are joking

@@grenadaball7655 the guy was correcting your grammar.

@@grenadaball7655 no the devs really don't understand exactly how the economy of the game really works

@@donsly375 ok

They have reserves.

Can we also talk about how the CSA is socialist?

@@hanselsihotang 1 pop represent 4 people in a family. (Male, Female, 2 kids)

@@donsly375 *insert that one pic of a woman sitting on a couch in front of 5 black men*

almost doubled in a month!

Now its better

40K now!

94k

@@matthewringel4909 145k now. I predict 250k in three months from now.

Si

Are good at it?

Ah yes, me and my 50th Opium war and 98th rebellion

There’s a reason that the Chinese refer to the games time period as “The Century of Humiliation”

Very historical, if I might add. 'Oh Germany invades you? Worry not, Belgian Friends, the British Empire is coming to the rescue!' 'Terribly sorry old chum, but I'm afraid we are a tad delayed. However, we hold one last village on your lands, so your country didn't really fall! Greatest contributor to the war, ally with the UK for the win.'

tell me about it..i tried belgium..the dutch just ran me over since im newer

”Wish i could still play it” Why can’t you still play it?

@@jgripen969 Maybe he got tired of the game

@@jgripen969 maybe he got his hands chopped off

@@donsly375 *Belgian Kongo intensiefies*

Y E L L O W P R U S S I A

I had to commission the punchline (by Big Man Tyrone) myself. The Blend S meme format can be found all over the internet.

@@CallMeEzekiel Thank you, sir.

@@CallMeEzekiel so did you pay for the commission? how much does the man himself ask for?

@Eugene InLaw Yes, he charges. The price depends on what you ask for. You can find his website here: bigtyrone.com/services/order-custom-video/

@@CallMeEzekiel money well spent, that joke landed perfectly.

The only thing that acually lowered my very high opinion about the tutorial. I hoped, that even year ago (2018) common myth that France raises white flag was already gone...

@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord doesn't change the fact about multiple wars they were on.

@@CzarnySamael Well, germany mopps the floor with france since 1870... so pretty accurate

@@senkaimonow9170 how does it make it accurate?

@@CzarnySamael Cause germany dominates France in every possible way.

Thank you. That's very kind of you to say.

Abused Satan nice pfp

Dextourus same

Same

Beating Victoria 2 with only one stack of army when ?

@Dream0fSkye Though, like HOI4, the AI of this game is still retarded, right? Or is it somewhat competent?

@@perfectlybalancedasallthin9319 retarded

Perfectly Balanced as All Things Should be because it is

HOI4 is way too simple.

That's because you need high class to be a Vicky 2 fanboy

I guess I was better? I got germany before 1850

@@polishraspberries congrats :)

missing step where you sphere austria and form super germany / grobdeustchland

Don't forget to hummiliate and occupy austria for 6 months so they drop out of GP status, then you sphere then as a wargoal too and now you've got supergermany.

Best way to win game: Be Austria Fight hard for the sphere game in Germany Keep expanding your army until you get nationalism & imperialism Take Elsaß-Lothringen by the 1840's Beat Prussia and siege them out until they're no longer a GP Sphere them and the rest of north Germany Become HRE 2.0

I hope you enjoy! I was also in the same place as you for a while. After playing for a bit, everything will click in your mind and you'll start to have a crazy good time. You just got to get there.

I use cheats to learn paradox games except for stellaris which was quite easy

@Ghostifacation e.g eu4. I used gold to build buildings and see how they work. How to develop and where. Monarch points to see how the ideas play out. Also wars and peace deals. I tried eu4 first with cheats then I learned how to do everything I started normal on very easy with little cheat then no cheats and then easy and then normal and then Ironman.

*thats what the military is for*

thank you

haha

hahhhhhahaha😆

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Big thing that immediately jumped out to me on importing my save file was my massive budget deficit, since I turned Mexico into an intercontinental empire that dominated trade, and, although I'm not really sure how trade works in Victoria, I do know that my crazy profitable setup from EU didn't translate into fat stacks right off the bat.

I never even understood how dafuq ingame tutorials used to work! the only pdx game's tutorial I understood is ckr3's but let's be honest ckr3 is WAY too easy

This was me. “Oh, I play EU4 and HOI4 and Stellaris on Ironman, I can handle Vic 2.” I could NOT handle Vic 2.

@@garreTTU2023 No pasaran!

Victoria 2 has a more complex economic and political system than any of those others Paradox has made since

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how did it go? enjoying the game?

@@TeRRm0s Bad. I almost liked it, but too much stuff bothered me. The numbers for productions, pop needs and trade were super unclear and confusing. Why was there 120 tea being needed and imported, yet only 40 or so being used by pops in the end, for example. But ultimately what killed it was that I didn't feel like clicking every single state (I was playing US) to build railroads on them. Even the ctrl+click trick was too much work.

@@superdudeman666 tbh I usually just build some railroads and let my capitalists do the rest

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