An Economist Plays Victoria 3: Strategic Resources (100% Wartime, Baby!)
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- France needs oil. Russia has lands with oil resources, but is not developing them. That means Russia is dumb and should let France have those lands. But Russia is stingy and won't let go willingly, so France has to go to war. It simply must! For honor and civilization and stuff like that! (But really for oil...)
Also, new mod:
Liberate Country as Subject
steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
I keep my mod list in the #victoria3 channel on my Discord, I'll be updating it soon to include this one. - Hry
what you said at the beginning about invading other countries because they arent living up to their potential is so true for my victoria playthroughs. I didnt exactly realise that this could also be something historical. Often times i find myself producing so much oil and still not able to meet my demands, meanwhile theres a country in south america or africa sitting on oil and not drilling it. So i invade it
Either getting it for the nation or before some other nation grabs it is the name of the game.
Literally it's just the end game of vic3, i inevitably end up in some ww1 style 4 year economically crippling war over two tiles of oil. And by the end after all of Africa is in flames (no matter where the war was over it ends up being fought in Africa), millions have died, I say to myself well that's why colonialism is a bad economic system and start a new play though.
@@An_Economist_Plays Historically did the cost of war and expansion ever outweigh the economic gain?
Depends on who you ask... military equipment providers always did well. People who lost loved ones? Not so much.
Yep, I keep getting to the finish and going back to the start. :-D
Really enjoying the series, very educational, as well as just fun to watch.
If you take Persia, it only makes sense you go a little further to make the full connection between the near and far eastern markets, and if you have that connection, you might as well do the small hop and skip across Europe to have a full connection from glorious France to Korea. What's a little war between European powers in the late game? No way this plan could spiral into a globe spanning conflict. Never could happen.
Pride is on the line! Hegemony! For France and Civilization!
Came here from Steam and sub within the first 5 minutes. Love this!!!
Very glad you are enjoying!
First Video I have seen of yours. Nice touch. Will have to check in.
Side Note: I'm currently working on modding the AI in this game. I don't feel like other countries are aggressive in a proper way without a player controlling them.
Also: I am surprised as playing France you didn't liberate India to end the Brits as a threat.
Link to the discord?
Discord: discord.gg/sCFfskknXV
Thanks for the kind words!
Yes, the AI needs help in doing the right things - and in finding ways to opposing emergent hegemons. Perhaps 1.7/DLC fixes that or exposes hooks for fixing that, we shall see.
The alliance with Britain has been vital to French interests - historically it was a thing with Napoleon III - but we shall see if it continues to hold...
Great video! Personally I would’ve liberated Ukraine from Russia it has so many resources and population it would’ve annihilated Russia’s potential and probably knocked them out of great power status. Would’ve been cool if Britain joined the conflict against you to create a true WW1 struggle. But I can imagine you’re happy they didn’t lol
I didn't yet have a Dniepr focus... otherwise, yes, first on my list!
Wow it's so refreshing to hear someone not consumed by left/right rhetoric and propaganda. Who actually looks at reality. Do people like you still exist? Where can I find them? :)
More than a few of us on my Discord server. :-)
Something that blows me away is when I see someone like Simon Whistler with his 10 youtube channels that reads scripts about history every day and sees how silly people were in the past with their political/religious/state/culture rhetoric yet still fall victim to the polarizing far right/far left rhetoric of today. How does one learn about history and not be able to see their own bias?
It's also sad that it's basically becoming socially acceptable to be a outspoken democrat but shunned and demonized to be an outspoken republican. Like it's better to lie or at least stay neutral if you want to succeed online.
It's sad how controlled the echo chambers have become on sites like reddit or twitter. Reddit the mods will ban you for not having the right "opinion" and control the narrative. It also seems like the people who become mods do it for the "power" or "control" as opposed to doing it without bias. And it seems like the people who go after modding jobs on the internet often are left wing power seekers. Just like it seems like many who become police officers are right wing power seekers.
Also Forgive me. I hate this whole left/right brain "only two ways of seeing" things or people mentality and don't think life revolves around being a democrat or republican.... though many people of today seem to make their personal identiy echo their political identity. Their entire profile spewing rhetoric or conformation bias. Or the ones who let the media get them so angry and upset about trump it's like they live to hate on trump and see republicans lose more then they even agree with their own parties rhetoric. Like people vote by who they hate more, not who represents them the best......
Anyways sorry for the elongated message/rant. This is the type of thing I like to talk about but I clearly wouldn't be welcome in any sphere or community that leaned left. It's like there is no room for nuance either. Everyone is so "party liner"
which I get if you are a politician or live in a communist country where "dangerous thoughts" can get you punished or killed.... but in A "Free country" it blows me away. How is someone completely left or completely right without agreeing with a single policy/issue standpoint the other side has? It would make more sense for someone to be like 70/30 or 80/20 at least no? But instead everyone seems to be like 100% left or right, "every single talking point must align or else you are the enemy" kind of thinking. Is everyone just an NPC/sheep, or do people not care about politics, philosophy or learning from history enough?
Let me know if you think I would be a good fit or addition to the discourse or if I would not mesh well with the rest of the discord.
Like I said I grew up a liberal and couldn't stand far right rhetoric or "bigotry" either. Then the liberal platform got radicalized... almost like it was hijacked.... and the way I see it true democrats that maintain personal values/integrity either had to jump ship.... or blend in. As the liberal I was 10 years ago doesn't align with the liberals of today. I actually find the left way more intolerant and hateful these days then the right was 15/20 years ago. Maybe that's recency bias or I wasn't on twitter 15/20 years ago.
Thanks for replaying! :)
@@LeoMajor1 if you believe that there is no path to peace, but that peace is the path, you'll be fine on my Discord. 🙂
@@An_Economist_Plays Haha that Sounds about right! I joined already :)