The British Empire Is Threatened In Victoria 3! 

In this timeline, a generation of people will have a distrust of electricity for life because of this

I imagine the people in this timeline where like "hey guys so I just discovered electri-" "QUICK BUILD ONE BILLION POWERPLANTS IN CANADA RIGHT NOW"

I think some people hear the memes about "goods can be created from thin air in Vic3", "Deficits only affect good price" and don't realize shortages actually exist in the game.

Your disaster saves series has really helped me understand the game better. If not for you I probably would've never managed to come close to finishing my first game ever. Sincerely, thank you.

These Victoria 3 videos are really helping me get a more solid grasp of the game's mechanics, thanks for making them.

This is better than playthroughs and how-to guides to the game, really educational!

Admiral Fisher tip was really good. He was an amazing sailor. Thanks for informing us!

i need this guy in my ear everytime i go to panic build lmao

Great video, can’t say how many times I’ve been on the verge of this myself due to change to electrical power. Become huge fan of you videos thanks

Yeah these are some nuanced interconnected details I don't always parse. Thanks!

Building 50,000 power plants in Ontario as Britain or Canada, New York as the USA, or Dalmatia as Austria, are the most efficient way to generate electricity. The output modifier makes for extremely productive power plants that produce vast quantities of electricity, but in turn they also reduce the demand for Oil if you choose to run them as Oil Turbines because you won't need quite as many for the same output.

Electricity is great stuff, assuming you have enough to run everything you're hooking up to it.

New video!!! Pumped!

Glad to see the game that I sent got reviewed (: thank you for helping

Thank you OPB!

Your accomplishments in this video make you a real RU-vid

Most helpful tutorial I’ve ever seen

really like those video. May I request something. A video where you start as Lower Canada and get to delclare independance.

OPB, I was wondering if you could perhaps do a short guide or something on the Urban Centers. One time in particular, I was playing as Serbia, managed to get Bosnia, Southern Serbia, Albania and Skopia from the Ottomans, while thriving under the Austrian market. But alas, as my country became quite industrialized, so did the Trade Unions become powerful. My country went from absolute principality to the constitutional principality with very liberal laws. And then, communism happened. I tried to keep the communists out of the government, but I was too busy helping the Austrians fight a civil war that I didn't notice my Inteligentsia IG leader, who was in my government, dying and being replaced by an anarchist. I wasn't paying attention, so the journal entry for the path of socialism completed without me even being aware that it was ticking. I didn't want to reload an autosave, because a month in game at this stage of the game (almost 1900) was like a minute on max speed, and I've already been pausing to micro the economy to get that sweet, sweet line rising even more. Soon, most IG's turned either shade of the socialism, and they completely dominated the government. There was a strong movement to establish a council republic (almost 90%), and the radicals were piling up due to Austria kinda ruining the whole market with all the civil wars (they had 8 in total by the end of the game). By this point, I was like "Oh well", so I established the council republic and abolished the monarchy. The things seemed to go quite well. With the 8th and final civil war in Austria ongoing, I seized the opportunity to gain independence and create my own market. Things were going pretty well, the economy was till thriving. The only two sad things in all of this that the monarchy was abolished and my tricolor was replaced by some kind of abomination. And then, command economy happened. I've seen talk of people praising command economy, and around 1925 there was a strong movement for it. I had interventionism, which has served me very, very well. But I decided to roleplay, so I went with the movement and enacted command economy... and then everything started going downhill. So command economy automatically subsidizes everything, including the urban centers, which I purposefully never subsidized, because they all kept growing and growing, and were never profitable, no matter which production method I picked. But due to me not having other choice but to subsidize it, I took an immediate plummet in my profits, going into negative million out of nowhere. I went full communist, so I had max instututinos for a communist utopia. I tried scaling those instututions down, to get welfare as low as possible, and to reduce the minimum wages. But nothing was helping. I tanked government and military wages, I maxed the taxation, I was on a graduated taxation. But the urban centers kept getting employed, and I had to pay for the wages out of my pocket. It was a complete disaster. Thankfully, before my country imploded, 1936 rolled in, and it was game over (got several achievemnts out of it even: Serf's Up, Victorian Age, Poor Huddled Masses, Deeds, Not Words, Reading Campaign, Inventive). So I was hoping you, or someone else reading this, could help me with future possible playthroughs. The easiest answer would be "Don't do command economy", but that really shouldn't be the case, right? The main point shoul be: what to do with the urban centers? They are always barely able to hire above 20% before becoming unprofitable. Despite my standard of living being high, there is not enough demand for services. So am I doing something wrong? Or is this just one of the things which are fixed in mods and which might get adjusted in future updates?

In my time with this game... the only disaster save I have made was with France. I don’t remember the exact details anymore. But it had to do with the combination of the Wlfare laws with the law of increased minimum wage. It absolutely destroyed my economy. Edit: It didn’t have anything to do with the market or market access itself btw. I just wasn’t prepared for such costs.

The economy is very complicated in this game but I never engage with it. Every playthrough I just build loads of factories even if they don't make money until I become a world power.

Can anyone tell me what Map-Mod this is? It looks like the Vicky 2 Map Mod but with a different font. I really like the combination. Thanks!

Yorkshire mentioned 🍾🍾🍾

Opb what do you think about some of the mods that are already out? Like the Great Rework? (my favourite)

Sorry to repeat the question if you've answered it somewhere else before, but what mods do you use?

Personally I think the English culture should have a "political obsession" of Constitutional monarchy. And American should have a Republic obsession also the french should have a Revolution obsession. Also it feels very unlikely that at any point in victorian history would the monarchy be abolished peacefully, the military was just too loyal and would surely fight to maintain the monarchy. Just like how I think the Americans would rather die than bow to any other form of government. And whenever the french government fails the people riot. But of course if the situation is bad enough then people can ignore their obsession in order to gain a better life so it isn't game breaking.

Honestly a bankrupt Britain is the most historically accurate Britain.

I'm sure the devs'll fix electricity in 1.3 or 1.4. 1.9 maybe.

AI GDP and prestige would be a good bit higher in 1881 if he used Anbeeld's AI mod. It makes the AI actually able to compete with the player. Improved Automation (better econ development) and Historical Population Growth & Resources (general realism) are also highly recommended. V3 is so poorly balanced atm that the above mods are practically must have, IMO.

Funny man, replicated the modern energy crisis.

i dont get how someone could get to 1B GDP while not understanding something so obvious?? its not like electricity acts different to the other input goods

This save has to be a meme right?

estonian technology was too advanced for britain

Estonia! 🇪🇪

the BEST part of the video is how he liberated Ukraine and made it big too bad he screwed his economy afterwards

I puppet Qing

I can't believe people are still bad at the game

Cool guide on how to make a 24 minutes video out of 15 mouse clicks.