Victoria 3 Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits

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For today we have been given early access to cover Victoria 3 thanks to the lovely @paradoxinteractive sponsoring this video of their latest grand strategy game! The lovely developers simply said I had to challenge myself in victoria 3. Perhaps the idea was that I would play the giant british empire or pruissia, perhaps france or russia. But no today I am playing Jan Mayen the worst nation in the entire game! The game is effectively a victorian era mix of a tycoon game like factorio and a war simulator like EU4. Today The Spiffing brit will be seeing if Victoria 3 is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits!
The exploit used today is by becoming a protectorate of the russian market we will generate infinite money! Victoria 3 is a beautifully balanced game that's perfect for anyone looking for a thrilling strategy game. In this video, we'll show you how to play Victoria 3 gameplay and how to make the most of its brilliant gameplay.
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title: Victoria 3 Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits
00:00 - Intro
03:08 - Setting up our economy
06:09 - Attempt number 2
08:43 - Infiltrating the Russian Market
12:07 - Business is Booming!
15:25 - How to Survive war with Russia
19:23 - Friends again
22.10 - Completing our Communist Utopia
25:39 - Jan Mayen is a Communist Global Powerhouse
29:13 - Government Run Economy
31:18 - Outro & Thanks for Watching!
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@thespiffingbrit Год назад

*A huge thanks to paradox for yet again being the greatest company to sponsor videos!* You can look at the game here: play.victoria3game.com/SpiffingBrit Anyway I hope you all liked todays video and if you want to see a VIC 3 Britain Secures the tea live stream then let me know Also because I could not feature it in todays video my current favourite vic 3 exploit is teleport hacks by double assigning troops to front lines. It allows you to literally teleport behind the enemy in a 1000 IQ move!

@hecker2485 Год назад

yes

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

@acodplayer2956 Год назад

Hii

@shader1xderp778 Год назад

mashallah

@dinosirbone Год назад

Drink Yorkshire tea

@hellfiresquid Год назад

sure a rock in the middle of nowhere might not be a potential threat, but a rock in the middle of nowhere being lead by spiff is a legitimate threat

@Kernwadi Год назад

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@AndrewMitchell123 Год назад

yes, truly thats the case... but isnt it just beautiful, majestic and above all, perfectly balanced? I think it truly is!

@theteleportedbread8803 Год назад

Everything that is under spiff management should count as worldwide threat

@jaisummons2304 Год назад

AI Britain and India: Spiff just looks threatening even if he's on an island Me: I'm scared of the British as well hopefully they don't come back to America

@AndrewMitchell123 Год назад

@@jaisummons2304 oh, you didnt notice? THE TEA, I mean its everywhere, even in the heretical coffee drinking boston tea partying country as the US of A and by god and Spiff, isnt it just majestic? Lord, save us all

@stalkingtiger777 Год назад

Gotta give Victoria credit, they recognized Spiff as a threat immediately.

@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam Год назад

The machines are learning...from Spiff. Oh well, reality wasn't unpleasant while it lasted.

@retroficient7730 Год назад

Same with Russia and Britain lol

@ArturHedlund Год назад

777 for the win amen

@thesteelrodent1796 Год назад

Vicky got nervous the moment Spiff entered the game

@randomdoomer8549 Год назад

It is too late because he's already in...

@taltamir Год назад

20:40 "out of 151k residents, 750k voted for The Party" Seems highly realistic to me.

@YourLocalMairaaboo 7 месяцев назад

With wealth voting, rich guys got more votes. And since everyone is so wealthy, vote counts had some inflation even without rigging.

@MrMan-np9jg 3 месяца назад

Average communist voting system

@DylanHabibi Месяц назад

@@YourLocalMairaaboo interesting, thanks for an actual explanation!

@user-cu9rb9cx6m Месяц назад

Ik it's true but bro each civi must then have a minimum of 4000 VOTES I THINK. IDK MAYBE MORE

@booshmcfadden7638 Месяц назад

Just like USA in 2020!

@TcheQ Год назад

History lesson for people who didn't know Singapore exists

@ALT0_768 Год назад

ah yes. except we didnt process the goods: we just repacked it and sold it for higher price

@BrahmaDBA Год назад

Spif Kuan Yew if you may lol.

@fish7598 Год назад

Yeah it's really funny because this doesn't even really feel like an exploit, just min-maxing. The main problem with something like this is that the moment you're not part of a customs union your economy WILL explode, meaning that there's a hard celling on how powerful you can ever become, as if you grow too big you'll end up being kicked out. It doesn't make it a bad strat, just one with legitimate consequences. I'm honestly amazed the run survived the war with Russia in all honesty - if they embargoed you the economy would be instantly vaporised, though with how large it ended up getting it'd probably also crash Russia

@mrbrown7668 Год назад

goods from Indonesia and Malaysia

@Alb410 11 месяцев назад

singapore is a bit bigger than this

@erkho2668 Год назад

"Why is women's suffrage important? Well it's incredibly important because it gives us money!" Never change

@MarcusTalks123 Год назад

I mean it’s not completely inaccurate. Just like most other organizations, they usually end up profiting for someone.

@godofsquirrels494 Год назад

Thats a bit more real than one would think.

@boomerix Год назад

@@godofsquirrels494 The bit about not caring about birth rates, because immigration will fix it could have been straight out of Brussels.

@WuCSquad Год назад

Well it was the reason for it. More people in the workplace, suppressing wages and more output.

@boomerix Год назад

@@WuCSquad For the most part of Human history most women had to work as well. The short period of time in the western hemisphere in which women did not have to earn any income and a Husband could support his entire family on only one income was probably one of the most privileged time to be a woman. The fairy tale that being a wage slave as a "strong independent woman" is far more profitable. Also most pro mass immigration arguments are essentially exploitative, as they are always seen and are used as cheap labour whose first generation is grateful for being underpaid. The best part in all of that, it is the "left" that always whinge about evil capitalism, who nowadays constantly promote the worst aspects of it. The big corporations have perfectly spun the social narrative into their favour. Just fun to see that we essentially got to see that in this video. (PS: Not saying immigration in General is bad, also Women should be free to work if they want to. Just the current elite in many western countries are overdoing it and it is harmful to society. Healthy families produce healthy people, strong communal bonds and are the backbone of society. This get's sacrificed for the holy GDP and get's spun into the narrative that it is actual good to be destructive towards families and young workers are as replaceable as cattle. Okay I've got way too political, I'll stop here, maybe I'll even delete this comment later)

@CordovaMage Год назад

I can just picture a Jan Mayen leaving his home to head to the factory for work, he opens his front door and walks to the train station that sits in his front yard. He gets on the train. Then the train then moves about 20 meters and stops. He then gets off and heads into the factory.

@BSm2919 Год назад

Around the end there they had ~670,000 people on that island....Only around 4,000 people per square mile. Not bad at all!

@pnutz_2 Год назад

it's like lining the roads with bus stations in sim city

@BasileosHerodou Год назад

@@cubefreak123 at that point they probably just imported massive amounts of dirt, stone and clay to artificially expand the island

@lifeofentropy Год назад

@@cubefreak123 actually only a little over half the density of hong kong

@lifeofentropy Год назад

@@cubefreak123 Yeah, orders of magnitude in difference. 4000 per square mile vs over a million.

@QueenLizby Год назад

That reaction to going to war with a rock... Just... Wow.. I could actually HEAR old men going "what's the point in invading a rock? You won't get any land out of it!"

@crusadercameron353 Год назад

British say otherwise

@Xiborg1 Год назад

I mean, it is an uncolonized island with little to no people, the Brits love it

@hawwaulya326 Год назад

"We can get a live empire founding brit"

@lollertoaster Год назад

I was waiting for the world conquest. But I love how the "exploit" is just doing things that worked in the real world before the AI figures it out at its own pace.

@josephleebob3828 Год назад

@Sewblon Год назад

Is it though? I am pretty sure that the states that had the highest standard of living in the 19th and 20th century were not council Republics.

@popepiusxv Год назад

@@Sewblon the highest standard of living for who? those who owned businesses and were good with the government had access to everything they wanted, but 90% of the people (even today!) couldn't afford basic needs and were often in debt. In contrast, the other Union-State of the 20th century transformed a backwater peasant country into one that rivaled the US in its size of economy, sent the first satellite and man into space, improved literacy, fed the hungry, made education mandatory, expanded womens suffrage, gave everyone a roof over their head a job to work all while keeping standard of living relatively well. Oh, and do I have to say? Also while recovering from three wars (WW1, Russian civil war and the incredibly destructive second world war, which they even won)

@Sewblon Год назад

@@popepiusxv " In contrast, the other Union-State of the 20th century transformed a backwater peasant country into one that rivaled the US in its size of economy" That isn't true. The Soviet Union's GNP only ever reached 58% of America's GNP, in 1975. "all while keeping standard of living relatively well. " What exactly do you mean by relatively well? I ask, because in 1945, even the best paid workers in the U.S.S.R. didn't have access to goods that their equivalents in the U.S.A. had access to. Also, anecdotally, from Edward Frenkel, food was easier to get in the U.S.A. in the 90s than it was in the Soviet Union when it collapsed.

@le_meme_man8983 Год назад

@@Sewblon No shit food was easier to get in US than in a dying country

@Hatypus Год назад

Something to point out is that between 1640 and the 1882 polar expeditions, Jan Mayen was completely abandoned, 0 people. So those 5 thousand people were presumably kidnapped, dumped there, and then whoever took them there left.

@kabobawsome Год назад

If I were to guess, the game can't really process a totally empty state, so it's just a relatively small population.

@thespiffingbrit Год назад

@@kabobawsome It can! I have seen state populations drop to as low as 4 before.

@kabobawsome Год назад

@@thespiffingbrit Huh. Weird that it starts so big then lol

@thespiffingbrit Год назад

@@kabobawsome it is a split state with the northern part of Norway so it gets a % of that regions population when it is released. Hence the higher than expected starting number

@kabobawsome Год назад

@@thespiffingbrit Ahhh, didn't realize it was part of the same state region as that northern part. That makes sense.

@terrardwhey281 Год назад

I like how spiff describes how the global economy works irl as an exploit

@7fatrats Год назад

To be fair, is he wrong?

@ThePiprian Год назад

Because it is.

@LipziG3R Год назад

I mean the entire "first world" is completely built on exploitation of "lesser" Nations. It is the biggest exploit we have ...

@ThePiprian Год назад

@@LipziG3R And their own lower class people.

@talinpeacy7222 Год назад

I'd say the starting resources were well overblown and the island's surface area and climate would hard cap the number of people willing to even live there even if they had well paying jobs.

@ronanmaguire1015 Год назад

To show how many people live in Jan Mayen: A preschool classroom has more people than in Jan Mayen 40% of people in UK have dated more people then the people on Jan Mayen You see more people in a day then you would the population of Jan Mayen You would actually matter if you lived on Jan Mayen.

@drew17210 7 месяцев назад

Dang that last one was good

@MadisonRamanamabangbang Год назад

I like how the exploit for it is just... a normal supply chain

@mrlingshaun6269 Год назад

I think he wanted us to just watch him play the game lol

@masterdeetectiv9520 Год назад

it is an exploit cuz in reality russia wouldnt draft 300k people to invade a tiny island

@AaronCorr Год назад

@@masterdeetectiv9520 honestly surprised this comment didn't get a ton of answers from people who do not get it

@picassoman4103 Год назад

@@masterdeetectiv9520 ukraine rn 💀💀💀💀💀

@beniaminpalgan2501 Год назад

@@picassoman4103 I dont know if you’ve looked at a map recently but Ukraine aint exactly a 2 square metre rock off the coast of iceland

@generalchAOS Год назад

Spiff *discovers the reason that trade exists* Also Spiff: This is an Exploit

@user-td3yi1mq7p Год назад

Well the exploit is enjoying the benefits of a powerful empire's large market without any of the drawbacks like, having to keep up and defend a powerful empire. And also the part where he won a war by being an island that the AI failed to invade even though no one was even defending it

@Tanuvein Год назад

It's just a matter of days before Puerto Rico collapses the US and takes all their GDP

@poilk91 Год назад

I think an issue is he was able to import super cheap goods from far as hell away. There should probably be a distance modifier to goods to represent global shipping

@samuelskinner7704 Год назад

@@poilk91 Distance affecting trade wouldn't change much; England imported tea from China in this time and Jan Mayen isn't significantly more distant.

@Kikori_Fanri Год назад

@@samuelskinner7704 Britain had the resources and navy for that shipping... they had the infrastructure so it would cost less by proxy... imagine a country of 35 doing global shipping...

@lorenzomartorellinilsson3332 Год назад

Once again, spiff breaks a paradox game before it’s even released. Beautiful.

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

@thespiffingbrit Год назад

a perfectly balanced business relationship

@Huzam001 Год назад

@@thespiffingbrit with no exploits I’m sure

@williamdory4375 Год назад

At this point he's QC.

@descuddlebat Год назад

Paradox paying for an influencer and receiving a QA on top

@hfar_in_the_sky 6 месяцев назад

15:50 Ironically this is exactly the plot from one of the stories from Issac Asimov’s first Foundation novel. Literally one of the merchant princes starts selling goods to a hostile planet in great quantities. Then when they finally did invade, he stalled them in a lengthy siege and eventually the local populace of the hostile planet overthrew the government because they were tired of laying siege to a rock and wanted their creature comforts and washing machines back

@DrZaius3141 Год назад

For anyone interested in reference: The area and population of Jan Mayen (in this playthrough) ended up somewhere around modern day Malta, so the population density is not THAT outlandish. (though to be fair, Malta doesn't have a big-ass mountain on it)

@jtdiomond1 7 месяцев назад

Nor does Malta have nearly as many factories on it. The *factories* must be skyscrapers.

@stepmi 4 месяца назад

@@jtdiomond1 wait a minute, a place near the Northern Pole that is just one giant factory, that produces everything, that is led by a bearded communist man. Why does it sound familiar?

@paradoxinteractive Год назад

We never saw this coming 👀

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

@thespiffingbrit Год назад

you get what you pay for!

@dailypositivity6659 Год назад

Holy shit it's them

@LocalSinkPisser Год назад

Who need an empire with tea bags already when you can start from dirt and then make more tea bags then the British empire -Spiff's logic

@lupusalbus3795 Год назад

How did you not expect this? Are you the Spanish Inquisition?

@TheEldritchGod Год назад

I imagine that the population was so high and you had so many steel mills that the island heated up and became tropical.

@shorewall Год назад

The residual body heat and industry made it tropical! :D :D :D That's hilarious!

@lucascurio8345 Год назад

That profile pic gives me bad vibes

@TheEldritchGod Год назад

@@lucascurio8345 - I am a Media-American. I am being oppressed. I simply want my right to spread lies and fear everywhere. SINESTRO DID NOTHING WRONG

@Pop013 Год назад

@@lucascurio8345 Are you allergic to wasps?

@ArtificialCutie69 Год назад

“Women’s Suffrage is incredibly important because it GIVES US MORE MONEY!” I love how earnest he is in his pursuit of money 🤣

@vogelmr2681 Год назад

That island popularity just spiked 467% after this vid💀💀💀💀

@Nevir202 Год назад

Just out of curiosity, I checked google trends, looks like it only tripled at most lol.

@candiman4243 Год назад

I did the math. Based off the size of Jan Mayen, at the end of the video you had 20% the population density of modern New York City. On a tiny rock in the arctic.

@bensoncheung2801 Год назад

🧠🧠🧠

@Runetrantor Год назад

Without the technology for the tall buildings that tend to allow for such densities.

@kineticsyntax Год назад

In other words, there are 2.16 people per meter squared living on a rock

@gm2407 Год назад

@@kineticsyntax Worse than that. As there needs to be space for industry they must be living in greater density or they have recovered land from the ocean. Which they will need to have done since all the heat and polution from the metal works will be melting the icecaps.

@nguyengary3780 Год назад

He basically made Singapore in 1800s

@Dynahazzar3 Год назад

That tiny island in the middle of nowhere is such a paradise. For the time, the litteracy rate is astounding, standards of living are very high and there is full employment. I just imagine they excavated the island's underground, using the rocks and dirt to extend their landmass, with building rising high and digging deep, like some steampunk megacity. Absolutely glorious.

@GiblixStudio Год назад

spiff didn't trade with The Netherlands for that landmass expansion technology. unlike the chinese who are taking over the world currently in a more rapid pace then ever before...

@neenm4299 Год назад

I imagined that they dug out the ground to build more of their factories!

@martinb4272 Год назад

Jan Mayen is literally an active volcano.

@jasonblalock4429 Год назад

Meanwhile IRL, less than 50 people are ever on the island, and the idea of trying to cram more than 800,000 people into 144 square miles before the invention of skyscrapers is, frankly, terrifying. My guess is that they're actually subterranean, and everyone lives and works in well-appointed caverns while topside is devoted entirely to transportation infrastructure.

@notreallyhere67 Год назад

@@jasonblalock4429 so they're the ancestors of the Morloks? :D

@JJK10293 Год назад

I've learned from this video that the smaller the island a British person is on, the more powerful they become.

@FreedInPieces Год назад

As the actual Governor of Jan Mayen, I'd like to say thank you - you've increased our tourism by an infinite percent.

@ciphergacha9100 5 месяцев назад

You fool, Jan Mayen doesn’t even have a govener

@Apoc2K Год назад

At this point I imagine the factories just being build over cliffs, mighty pillars jutting from the seafloor propping up these massive structures overlooking an endless flotilla of every flag imaginable.

@stalfithrildi5366 Год назад

Would you kindly vote for the Radical Peoples Party again?

@Jebu911 Год назад

Maybe they just built some oil rig like structures near the coastline

@kasperstergaard1592 Год назад

I envision this in glorious Steampunk now.

@lifeofentropy Год назад

Actually less dense than Hong Kong weirdly enough and less than a quarter as dense as new york.

@glenmcgillivray4707 Год назад

I think instead it's a steampunk Pagoda tower. Built to protect the subsistence farmland that surrounds it. Which only a few hungry children operate to keep themselves fed as their parents labour to make money to pay for imported food.

@slayerone1226 Год назад

Spiff exists on a rock in the middle of nowhere Brittish empire "hes too powerful to be allowed to live!"

@skygard49 Год назад

It's too much like beta england

@sergeysukhov635 Год назад

Too realistic!

@user-tc9sk4ei9y Год назад

Anyone exists on a rock in the middle of nowhere British Empire: Why the hell it isn't our colony still?!

@klausstock8020 Год назад

At 1:00, I thought "wow, that's a lot of British humor crammed into one minute!" At 4:11 I was convinced that Victoria 3 is the epitome of British humor.

@lolHyperactive Год назад

most advanced AI i has ever seen, great britain smell your tea power just at the beginning of the game xDD

@RhelrahneTheIdiot Год назад

I can just imagine a interstellar humanity from this timeline 400 years later seeing Jan Mayen as the case study whilst turning all of Earth or a different planet into one massive Ecumenpolis.

@honooryu5374 Год назад

I love how the AI recognises Spiff as a threat immediately.

@Thatguy5606 Год назад

Britain: Hee-hee! I'm in danger!

@Wertsir 5 месяцев назад

PROTECT THE TEA RESERVES!

@Slipte 5 месяцев назад

That's quite funny

@myopiniongoodyouropinionbad Год назад

Ive actually heard of this Island. I was playing Uboat and crashed into it while fast travelling

@jeremylackey6587 Год назад

Also the setting of an isolation horror podcast called The White Vault. Fantastic story.

@jamiekamihachi3135 Год назад

Honestly that’s the best reason I’ve ever heard to know about an obscure place in the world.

@matsv201 Год назад

My parrents went on vacation there once becasue they love unpopulated cold barren wastlands. They also been to swalbard, greenland an iceland 3 times... and Namibia for some reason, the odd one out

@SkeeJ88 Год назад

@@matsv201 are your parents’ names Jeremy, James and Richard?

@matsv201 Год назад

@@SkeeJ88 no... aparentlly this is a fairly large turist industry. And also, when they want to greenland they where working. So that might not count. But they specificlly looked for short term job there.

@runforitman Год назад

it is terrifying how fast this guy must be able to learn

@mikesrandomchannel 7 месяцев назад

Well said. Every time Spiff says "And this is important because..." I hear the sound of rulebooks being riffled through for hours. Meanwhile, I'm the kind of gamer who gets into a fight by mistake in Divinity II and clicks desperately on the first available potion in the hotbar only to find out I just made my character drink poison...

@cloudtaker633 6 месяцев назад

You make yourself sound like if you played Minecraft, you would craft a hoe when trying to craft a pickaxe, or misclick on the crafting book and make 16 axes

@TeeQueueSA Год назад

I appreciate the John Cena music hitting when Marx showed up.

@dwaters6274 Год назад

Thank you friend. Our glorious overlord spiff uses this in the Skyrim video and I could not for the life of me place it! Thank you sir!

@SjurSkur Год назад

Fun Fact: In addition to being a barely inhabitet rock, Jan Mayen also is consistently the highest scoring commune on Norway's biggest "quiz" show: Alle mot 1.

@Runningfromtheredqueen Год назад

To be fair, Jan Mayen has *the* highest average academic status in Norway, with a whopping 100% of its inhabitants (4 meterologists, 14 soldiers and intelligence officers from the norwegian military) having some form of higher education, easily leaving the rest of us dum-dums (36%) in the dust.

@anonymous71207 Год назад

@@Runningfromtheredqueen an uneducated rube needs to go there and lower the score Or they could have babies

@festethephule7553 Год назад

Honestly, most of this didn't even come across as exploits. You really did just seem quite skilled at the game, and I can't wait to play it.

@deidyomega Год назад

One could argue that, that island can't support the pop size he had. And in the "real world" wouldn't have worked.

@5Andysalive Год назад

The game exploited itself by assuming a population that is literally impossible for that island.

@HermesHall Год назад

@@deidyomega Well, think of Singapur. It has twice the size, but 5.68 million inhabitants (2020). The Spiffin Brits made them very rich, a trade powerhouse, they can import food (grain, rice etc) & basic resource. Also have so much uncontested ocean surrounding the island for fish/whales. So just for population size its not impossible, just highly unlikely

@eduardonunomarques Год назад

@@5Andysalive He ended up with 700k people on an island of 353km2 (Jan Mayen is actually fairly large as ice-covered rocks in the middle of nowhere are concerned). That's roughly 2000 people per km2. Macau and Monaco have densities of 19000/km2. The Maldives have over 1800/km2 and people go there to enjoy nature and uncrowded beaches (yes, that's because the actual population is crowded on other islands, but still, there is plenty of room for that population on Jan Mayen). The "exploit" would be how horrendous the prices of food would've been when every single bean and grain of rice or wheat needs to be shipped in across a barely navigable Arctic Ocean, and in how many immigrants he's attracting when literally the only thing the place has going for it is high wages (which should've been eaten up by shipping costs anyway).

@Fulgrim88 Год назад

I think the game doesn't factor in import/export costs. You can't just put a factory anywhere on the planet with access to a big market and expect it to be uber profitable. How would a factory that has to ship every single good through a thousand miles of freezing water compete with anyone on the continent

@gingerinajacket8519 Год назад

27:00 it should probably be elaborated that by unemploying half of the workforce in an industry, that frees them up to work somewhere else, effectively removing unnecessary jobs to make way for money makers. Very useful if you have a particularly small population but you want to fully staff something that is only partially staffed.

@thetypicalweed6770 Год назад

Currently studying economics and darn this is more helpfull than reading books about theory and more xD

@idontknoq4813 Год назад

What kinds of theory do you read?

@ntenhoum 10 месяцев назад

@@idontknoq4813 Karl Marx

@idontknoq4813 10 месяцев назад

@@ntenhoum Based.

@supercellodude Год назад

It should be noted that Jan Mayen is (1) a volcanic island formed by a hotspot like Hawai'i (2) it's land area is about 373 km² (compare New York City with all boroughs is 778km² just by land area) (3) some of the land is covered by glaciers and, you know, *a volcano*

@SephirothRyu Год назад

The volcano merely means they need less coal for smelting all that steel!

@tadx6184 Год назад

Great! Free heating

@benwest2112 Год назад

@@tadx6184 yeah thermal heating would work great there! And with this country’s money, literacy and innovativeness. They will probably invent the technology much quicker than we did.

@noahworcester9320 Год назад

I just imagine they are building up their buildings into the sky like Coruscant.

@shadowyzephyr Год назад

If 8 and a half million people can fit into NYC, 600K can fit into Jan Mayen reasonably without overpopulation, in terms of size. The fact that it's so isolated is the real problem.

@TheCyberGoblin Год назад

When Spiff revealed that he was playing Jan Mayen, I assumed it was because it had something similar to Vic2’s Jan Mayen where you can replace the human population with polar bears

@Tekisasubakani Год назад

Right? Where mah polar bears!?

@DBZVelena Год назад

that would explain the voting situation though.

@AmUnRA256 Год назад

@DBZ most underrated comment here

@MrToberton Год назад

@@DBZVelena 🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️🗳️

@CurrentlyChrising Год назад

Spiff: Becomes protectorate of Russia Also Spiff: gives the ottomans who are at war with Russia guns and cannons

@copacelu93 Год назад

15:15 Never in my life did I expect a moment where Spiff would be this excited to see Karl Marx, of all people

@jackm2293 8 месяцев назад

its sad. not surprising. he(spiff) is an exploiter. and Karl was a champion of BS exploitation.

@winnerdiego4562 7 месяцев назад

@@jackm2293bringing politics to a yt comment section is another kind of cringe man 💀

@arandomcommenter412 7 месяцев назад

@@jackm2293calm down there Leonardo, next you’re going to be talking of the aryan race.

@raggedvagabond7537 Год назад

"Last time a British person raised taxes on tea" And we witness first hand Spiffs actual /fear/ of Coffee drinkers...

@bensoncheung2801 Год назад

They tossed crates upon crates of it into the ocean! The fish drank deeply of the resulting concoction that day. 🎩🎩🎩 🐟🐟🐟

@gm2407 Год назад

@@bensoncheung2801 Aquaman's ancestors drunk tea. In fact they breathed tea. What could be more British than that?

@DrBunnyMedicinal Год назад

Ahh, but the triggering event *wasn't* that Parliament raised taxes on Tea, it was that they LOWERED them. (For the East India Company, anyway.) This would have severely cut into the profits of those smuggling in untaxed Dutch tea and then selling it as if it was taxed. Limit our profits! HOW DARE! Into the harbour with it all! 😁

@KopperNeoman Год назад

@D R Bunny And then the soldiers get attacked for investigating the terrorist attack, defend themselves, and the rest is history.

@garlottos Год назад

You can type _ on each side of the word to _italicize_ it

@emilyeatsramen332 Год назад

The fact that the tiny island almost has more money than the entire of the British Empire is hilarious

@kv2menacing176 Год назад

It still has more than the modern British economy. Speaking of which the ghost of the economy would be a good Halloween costume.

@blackjak4185 Год назад

That’s unfair, currently Britain barely has an economy to speak of

@emilyeatsramen332 Год назад

@@blackjak4185 true lmfao

@samreid6010 Год назад

It’s like the South Sea Company, an economy built on the base of nothing that keeps expanding. Spiff created the North Sea Company

@theendersmirk5851 Год назад

I mean, when you think about it, there's probably an alternate reality where people talk about the idea of Britain being a global power relative to the great Jan Mayen empire is ridiculous in as many words. I mean, Britain happens to also be this one rock in the middle of the ocean after all, it's just slightly taller.

@steveweidig5373 Год назад

For the votes number disparity, it could be that the voting system is based on party lists. If so, you get several votes per voter. Here in Luxembourg, you have as many votes as there are offices, between 6 and 24 depending on the election. Pretty sure it's a similar system in the game for Jan Mayen

@MyDude199 8 месяцев назад

That is my guess on how this is working, but it be intresting to see the actual thing, there is probably a thing in the game telling you why.

@Skyblade12 4 месяца назад

I mean, he created a communist state. More votes than voters is not exactly unusual.

@Ashley-lm4nv Год назад

"We are going to buy the cheap resources, make goods from them and sell them back." Indian cotton and textile industry: "Yeah we have seen that one before."

@twistedtachyon5877 Год назад

And spiff wonders why they see him as a threat...

@2d20kobolds3 Год назад

I gotta be honest. This is the first time Spiff has ever made a nice place to live.

@stevenn1940 Год назад

I think we've seen spiff actually trancend capitalism; the best way to make money... is to not exploit your people

@reverendofwar2796 Год назад

It’s also the first time a communist country had any sort of standard of living.

@Martin-df4xk Год назад

@@stevenn1940 except the woman suffering...

@Stevonicus Год назад

@@Martin-df4xk but the women wanted to suffer

@normieloser6969 Год назад

@@stevenn1940 IT'S TO EXPLOIT OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR CHEAP RAW GOODS!

@thiagets Год назад

Jan Mayen skipped the underdevelopment phase and jumped straight to Nespresso phase: buy cheap raw materials, sell overpriced capsules

@Jamlord2061 10 месяцев назад

don’t think that is the technical term. then again i don’t know the objectively correct term.

@SebHaarfagre 5 месяцев назад

@@Jamlord2061 Espresso capsules are the perfect metaphor, though! I can't think of a worse waste of money off the top of my head. Hotel shampoo bottles if they were sold at retail markets maybe? Selling individual rice grains, each wrapped in plastic?

@andromeda7758 Год назад

Spiff *existing on a rock in the middle of no where* Britain: and I took that personally

@ArnieStein Год назад

Spiff, HILARIOUS! I actually sailed past Jan Mayen in 1978 when I was working on a research ship (little did I know it was a covert operation for Paradox Interactive). All Hail Karl!

@rosalindchapman9035 Год назад

To be honest other than jan mayen's starting population and maybe some immigration maluses it ought to have for being an inhospitable frozen rock the only thing that struck me as a problem that needs to be solved is the AI when waging war on tiny countries should probably do more limited troop mobilizations. It would make way more sense in a situation like this for Russia to send like 5000 guys rather than seemingly attempt a full mobilization and crash their own economy for no reason.

@theantagonist801 Год назад

Nah that's just Russia's thought process.

@theKashConnoisseur Год назад

You'd think that but Ukraine.

@sintua Год назад

And also the whole... 400% of the population voting thing. And having space for all that industry and people. The malus for overpopulation is capped at -100% but the population itself has no cap!

@ed6705 Год назад

@@sintua I suspect that's individuals getting to vote for multiple positions, rather than a massive stock of mystery votes.

@aminulhussain2277 Год назад

@@theKashConnoisseur Putin wasn't in power in the 1800s

@mikkoharjulinna8743 Год назад

Wow, in the end the population had ~0,45m2 of space per person. I can only imagine the glorious lighthouse-style Victorian-era steel skyscrapers they had to build to fit in there.

@kringle7804 Год назад

Imagine New York but less dense The country is dense but its not impossible

@sandearcubus9299 Год назад

With a population of about 800000 in the end and Jan Mayem having about 373 km2 that'd be about 2145 inhabitants per km2 (or 0.00215 per m2). New York has about 10000 per km2, so there's room for improvememt.

@bachvandals3259 Год назад

@@kringle7804 you cant build houses like ours back in those days... Some of Victorian house still have wooden pillars and stuff.

@kringle7804 Год назад

@@bachvandals3259 by the time he ended the run I'm sure they'd be able to figure it out

@connorbarton4308 Год назад

@@bachvandals3259look into world fairs the empire of tartery and the old world

@Killerwale-hk4wy 4 месяца назад

I imagine San Mayen as a city that mostly sits on water, standing on poles and made out of boats. An entire state that's half afloat like that is pretty cool.

@koghs Год назад

Dude literary just invented Taiwan

@unholydarc1967 Год назад

Including the voting system!

@thestigsdutchcousin Год назад

Spiff is just Paradox Interactive's unofficial beta-tester.

@thespiffingbrit Год назад

Its great they even pay me in tea bags!

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

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@Mazereaugh Год назад

@@thespiffingbrit phrasing.

@somethingelseidk1035 Год назад

@@thespiffingbrit Will you ever make a 1 hour long video where you just make tea and drink it???????

@Orthanderis Год назад

@@somethingelseidk1035 why woulsd he DRINK TEA when he can HAVE TEA and NOT drink it. Drinking tea uses the tea. Unacceptable.

@jamiekamihachi3135 Год назад

Honestly I think Spiff is actually playing the game as intended.

@Cheesblenders4all Год назад

Yes this id basically how small successful economies function in real life. Lichtenstein is the best example of this

@RanEncounter Год назад

@@Cheesblenders4all I did not know Lichtenstein was a communist utopia.

@jonnymur3808 Год назад

@@Cheesblenders4all Rather Singapore. Liechtenstein has no people and pretty much no economy ^^

@fico1557 Год назад

@@jonnymur3808 no offense, but you are incedibly wrong, it has about 7 bilion gdp, 37k population and half of its economy is INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, if I had to pick a country most similar to the spiffs economy, it would be Lichtenstein

@fico1557 Год назад

just for comparison ukraine has had 183 bilion gdp, with 44 MILLION population, the Lichtenstein gdp per capita is 20x higher than ukraine

@drunkenrobot7061 Год назад

23:50 - my favorite clip of this whole video. I laughed so hard I had trouble breathing - that's always an indicator of a great video!

@trumpetmancornetguy8312 Год назад

23:59 and the creation of the strong military in the world and despicable coffee drinkers

@lucijanoiveljic2179 Год назад

*spiff enters the game* *england: starts sweating nervously Only a tea drinker can beat the tea drinkers

@habilterserah4075 Год назад

Of course

@sonofthebearking3335 Год назад

😂

@haan2747 Год назад

The John cena intro to Karl Marx honestly had me rolling and I laughed even harder when Russia got mad about it 😂

@caad5258 Год назад

haters gonna hate

@FwendlyMushwoom Год назад

Gotta love absolute god Norwegian Karl Marx turning a frozen rock in the north sea into an industrial powerhouse where the workers keep all their massive surplus value

@npcperson2158 Год назад

Technically correct.

@rigberrycrunch Год назад

I will never refer to Fahrenheit as anything other than freedom units for the rest of my life.

@cheasball1088 Год назад

As an american, i love every time you reference america the ways you do. 32 freedom units and boston tea party references specifically

@killer-ll4pn Год назад

Major powers: Ah a small island is no threat to us. Major powers: Oh, spiff is leading it. Probably fine he might be doing a normal or challenge run. Major powers: OH HELL NO HE BROUGHT A FACTORY THAT SEEMINGLY NEGATIVELY IMPACTS HIS ECONOIMY! I NEED PROTECTION! HES GONNA EXPLOIT!

@pamelasmith4230 Год назад

I would start to worry if Spiff was leading a leading it

@gottejos4896 Год назад

Fun fact: In the norvegian tv-show Alle mot 1 (Everyone against 1) where everyone could quess on stuff via an app. And in the show they rank the municipalitys on who did best and Jan Mayen has bean almost all of the time on top.

@EEEEEEEE Год назад

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@megastizz Год назад

That is the most perfectly broken norwegian english sentence I have ever read.

@miser2570 Год назад

@@megastizz I dont know much norwegian at all, but beyond some typos i think he is just mixing two ways of phrasing what he wants to say, so seems more like he lost his train of thought midway writting it,

@MikaelLV Год назад

@@megastizz 🤣🤣🤣

@Orthanderis Год назад

15-35 people are most likely all scientists if its that far north

@aleowyn Год назад

Fun fact: Jan Mayen has Norways only active volcano, it last erupted in 1985.

@lefthanded0440 Год назад

Amazing seeing the difference in a livestream vs your produced videos. I laugh my ass off the majority of the time. Great comedic timing spiff

@allanlt1 Год назад

When the video began and Victoria recognized the tiny Island as a threat I thought to myself "ha, Spiff is going for the Cuba playthrough", little did I know that he was going for the PERFECTLY BALANCED Cuba playthrough.

@jimtalbott9535 Год назад

“Drafted 300,000 people to invade a rock….” Heh….TOPICAL.

@kinagrill Год назад

And then get flipped off by a soldier.

@Gradysmokestoomuch Год назад

And crash their economy.

@jimtalbott9535 Год назад

@@kinagrill topical…..

@jimtalbott9535 Год назад

@@Gradysmokestoomuch TOPICAL!

@shaneizm8108 Год назад

It amazes me that after all the wonderful vidoes i have consumed from this channel. we still have that beautiful backround noise

@Podgamezz Год назад

love how he says qing like an english word

@elainetamika4822 Год назад

I burst out laughing at the Karl Marx part, "Please Marx come over!" 🤣🤣🤣 And the John Cena music match perfectly balanced with the moment.

@fugitiveunknown7806 Год назад

Jr: "OH man gawd king. THATS KARL MARX's MUSIC!!!!!" King: *abdicates*

@carcharoclesmegalodon6904 Год назад

Zhong Xina moment

@dopesickdog Год назад

@@carcharoclesmegalodon6904 HA

@majorursaminor4434 Год назад

Spiff: “I don’t know how we got about 700k people to live in sub zero temperatures” me …. The Brit’s forgot about Canada.

@Nestor__Makhno Год назад

I think Canada is a lot bigger than that rock island in the middle of the ocean thats the difference

@mohammedabdul4832 Год назад

@@Nestor__Makhno 🤓

@Nestor__Makhno Год назад

@@mohammedabdul4832 Counter🤓

@DragonReaver Год назад

@@Nestor__Makhno Well if we are being nerdy that is only 2000 people per km which is nowhere near the densest population per kilometer of a country.

@Nestor__Makhno Год назад

@@DragonReaver 🤓

@steve_cat5504 11 месяцев назад

I absolutely love the style of this with all the stoke images

@crossfire7474 Год назад

Another masterpiece about Victoria 3. Keep up the good work 👍

@enjoythestruggle Год назад

So you survived the war with Russia by... not having an army and not doing anything? This game is amazing.

@enriktigasna Год назад

Also it's pretty realistic, since the army irl would also likely just mutiny and not understand why they are invading

@fearedjames 6 месяцев назад

It's pretty much just non-sci fi Foundation at this point

@Nik072WarpDancer 4 месяца назад

- Так, собираемся и идём войной на Ян-Майен! - Кудаблин? - Ян-Майен! - Это где вообще?! Покажи на карте! - Вот. - ...Так. Ты собрал триста тыщщ человек чтобы идти войной на голый камень посередь нихрена?! - Да они там офигели! - Да ты сам офигел, не пойдем мы никуда! Нафиг надо! As a Russian, I just imagine this dialogue. It's kinda anachronistic (and a bit polished in terms of swearing 😁) but anyway😂

@adhesiveregex1720 Год назад

Nothing more British than owning a rock in the middle of the ocean

@scragar Год назад

Makes sense at the time because a rock you could restock on meant you could sail further and "discover" more stuff.

@miguelpadeiro762 Год назад

@@scragarMost of the world, save for Oceania, was already discovered by the time the English ever went beyond Ireland

@thesultryhippo9184 Год назад

Say hello to the Falklands!

@icicleshard9940 Год назад

*takes a deep breath* do more of this pls! I find u exploiting these games funny and entertaining and an entire rock that is in the middle of nowhere on the ocean is the best economic place on the World. I love u r ideas! *drinks tea*

@easternbloc5529 Год назад

Jan Mayen: gets factory Great Britain: *Now this is an avengers level threat*

@renjoker5442 Год назад

ah yes, playing the most remote and undeveloped place on Earth in a map game. My favorite playstyle!

@quantemwensday Год назад

"you will produce nothing and consume nothing" and be happy -the spiffing brit

@I.Cant.Think-Of-A-Name1 Год назад

so you’re telling that by the 1880s Jan Mayen has just as big of an economy as the Ottoman Empire.

@AnOldYoungPerson Год назад

Basically Spif is doing for Russia, what Russia couldn't do for it's self.

@TwoTonTaft Год назад

Imagine the skyscrapers on that little island. They'd be gloriously huge!

@the-letter_s Год назад

or gloriously deep into the earth, considering skyscrapers are a unique invention in the game.

@capnolivbeard8217 Год назад

Sponsoring Spiff is just an advanced way to check if your game has exploits. (It does, and he will find them.)

@agustiomaitimu144 Год назад

no game is safe

@thesultryhippo9184 Год назад

The answer is always "yes"

@inventor121 Год назад

Your strategy here is literally the same one used by Britain during the colonial age, currently by America, and now even by China. Finally Taiwan's entire economy is based on this exploit (They make Computer chips). Safe to say the exploit works irl too.

@bobbywilliam7440 10 месяцев назад

The difference is that irl all that profit is hoarded by a tiny minority At least the population of Jan Mayen are profiting off of their Labour fully

@nyctomint 9 месяцев назад

@@bobbywilliam7440 up until the end that is, when the government started managing a lot more

@Truth4None Год назад

Part of me now believes that Jan Mayan is actually Atlantis 2.0

@irishwristwatch2487 Год назад

I love Paradox just outsourcing their QA for Spiff content. Its a perfectly balanced relationship, those geniuses!

@mossdwellers114 Год назад

Imagine a collab between The Spiffing Brit and LetsGameItOut. Absolute mayhem

@EffieTM Год назад

The poshest, most chaotic world ending Event imaginable

@slandshark Год назад

There's not enough imagination in the world to understand what might become of that combination.

@ethanstyant9704 Год назад

Spif will analyse the game to find out what makes it work LetsGameItOut will brute force every aspect of it until his computer hire a hitman

@BuilderB08 Год назад

@@ethanstyant9704 And the game will (if it fits to Paradox “lore”) end in an invasion by the Prethoryn Swarm because it took so long. The Prethoryn Swarm is a Stellaris Endgame Crisis if you did not know.

@rainmannoodles Год назад

Spiff: "Perfectly balanced!" Josh: "Hold, please!"

@patriciobonatti1677 7 месяцев назад

The British see a tiny rock as a threat, *Falklands intensifies*

@ForeverKite42 Год назад

more more more! I love seeing such crazy powerful strats that shouldn't work and just od xD

@tylermech66 Год назад

I'm just imagining that island entirely covered in an industrial city, with the coasts lines with docks and smokestacks never out of sight. I actually love it.

@TrueLimeyhoney Год назад

Jan Mayen is actually quite a large rock. The population density is relatively low. Well it’s actually incredibly high considering it’s a rock in the Arctic, but compared to other industrial cities in the world, very low.

@wisecrack4545 Год назад

I'm imagining that, plus the island is secretly a hollowed out rock full of subterranean caves that house entire underground city districts, inhabited by a sizable population of cave people which in turn accounts for all those extra votes.

@chazchoo99 Год назад

It's about half the size of Singapore, and roughly a third of it's total area is covered by glaciers. That leaves ~259 sq km (or ~161 sq mi) of hypothetically settleable land. Singapore's population is about 5.6 mil, so assuming Jan Mayen had the same population density, that's about 2.8 mil. Fun fact, the population density of Manhattan, NY, is roughly 3.5 times higher than Singapore. So hypothetically, you could almost fit 10 mil people on Jan Mayen and it be about as densely populated as Manhattan! P.S., sorry if my math is off. I'm not normally a math person. I just had an ADHD need to churn out some numbers😅

@not_that_person Год назад

@@chazchoo99 I think we should factor in that this game is in the Victorian era, so they wouldn't have high-rise buildings like Manhatten. Also the enormous amount of factories would take up more space than office buildings.

@chazchoo99 Год назад

@@not_that_person very true! Do you think even 1 mil would be a bit of a stretch?

@Birdo4004 Год назад

Thank you for explaining in freedom units. Much better understood now

@danielbrezina4982 Год назад

Ma man turned piece of rock into taiwan and further

@Libium Год назад

According to wikipedia, Jan Mayen has an aera of 377 square km, so in the end, Jan Mayen has a population density of ~2,100 inhabitants per square km. It means Jan Mayen ended up being a rival to the world most powerful empires with the population density equivalent of Renfrewshire.

@legostarwarsfan1662 Год назад

Also Jan Mayen has no permanent residents nowadays.

@tbotalpha8133 Год назад

The island of Jan Mayen is one giant Hive City.

@dragonace119 Год назад

@@GamerEast1233 Look up Warhammer 40k Imperial Hive Cities. If want a rough idea of what it looks like, imagine Coruscant but if it was compressed into several US states yet could fit from near 10 billion to over 100 billion people. Now imagine several dozen being built along the surface of a planet, thats when you call it a Hive World of which each of the Hive Cities are essentially a massive industrial production center.

@beatooze8025 Год назад

@@GamerEast1233 Judge Dredd's Mega City. Buildings that house a million people. But yes... Warhammer 40k nightmare city's.

@tj-co9go Год назад

Also the whole island is probably just filled to the brim with skyscrapers and industrial areas. It is one giant city

@theeharkness Год назад

Paradox: challenge yourself and have fun with our version of the British Empire. Spiff: nah, fuck that I'm gonna use this random ass island in the north no one even knows about. That's a real challenge

@bookwormaf1471 Год назад

I mean, many Victoria veterans will know about Jan Mayan. It has a fun Easter egg in Vicky 2 involving sentient polar bears!

@youssefboueri213 Год назад

28:27 is it just me or if he said "in the middle of the sea" the burn would be better because it rhymes? Efficiency -Germany-Tea-Sea-Economy

@es68951 Год назад

“Luxury clothes are in high demand in Russia” “They want to turn us into a vassal state, or maybe just invade us to conquer our lands" “When Russia goes to war, they bugger their economy” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Paradox did their homework, what can I say?