An absolutely brilliant introduction to the game. I have watched a number of other tutorials but yours is like a lamp turning on in a dark room. Thank you for your time and effort.
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the kind words! Hope you enjoy the rest of the series. It does take time to understand each concept and then understand how they all come together, but I think it’s worth it. The game is great after 1.5 and I can’t wait to see more complexity added to it with future DLC. Makes you appreciate PDX work as well, once you understand the complexity!
I second this. I have 200+ hours on about 12-13 playthroughs (most never finished) and am still learning things, so it's really cool to watch someone else play, who's going in to a lot of detail about *why* they do stuff, instead of assuming everyone knows as much as they do. Refreshing!
I played the game for free last week. Purchased it with all the DLC once the free weekend was over. This is just the video I need, to help get me started understanding the game and its mechanics. I found this immensely helpful, as I’ve played the tutorial a couple times now and still had trouble with the game’s concepts. I will be attempting Columbia on my first play through.
Thanks a lot for this comment! I really appreciate it! So happy to see someone found this useful and can enjoy the game now! You can also take a quick look at the start of my Chile and Venezuela videos as they are both in South America and both focus on simple economic dominance and political liberalisation. I think the main challenge with South American minors is the lack of labour, so you need to understand the migration system, especially the international migration system. Unfortunately, I didn't understand it in my Venezuelan playthrough and didn't really showcase it enough though...
I find it funny how they couldn't really represent the weird government we had back then (hereditary peasant pseudo-military dictatorship?) - the "aristocracy" was basically nonexistent, comprised of warlords, not large landowners (most people had very little land, but most had it - there was even this "bare minimum land law" where a certain amount determined to be the bare minimum required for subsistence was banned from being sold or mortgaged)
Yeah, I think someone else told me in the comments that actually one of the first constitutions that were semi-democratic or at least included some basic rights for peasants was created in Serbia as well just before 1836. It's probably going to be a while, but maybe in the future paradox will provide more flavour to minor nations, which are my favourite to play in all PDX games.
Thanks for this tutorial, I think the most helpful you can find on CZcams. Are you planning to start another Vic3 series with the new patch anytime soon? That would be great!
just recently started playing victoria, absolutely lost in it's intricacies. looking forward to learning about the game from your playthrough. greetings from industrialized Serbia!
Thanks a lot! Haha, love the internet bringing you here! We shall unite the Serbs soon enough! Hope you enjoy the series and learn from it. Do comment if you have any questions - the game is even more complicated than it first appears.
I stumbled upon your tutorial and thank you so much for this. I bought the game quite some time ago but found myself without time, so the little I could grasp I had already forgotten and this is excellent.
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the feedback! More Vicky 3 will come soon, especially after the June DLC that will bring quite a few welcome changes to the game!
I'm trying to come back to this game since the 1st month and man, am I confused as fk? I appreciate this playthrough and explanation. The tutorials are so unnecessarily in-depth out there on 1.5 I feel like I need a Ph.D. to learn this game. I just want someone to play, briefly cover the game, and explain why or what they are doing. And in a semi-entertaining way to where I at least can watch the whole video. A+
Thanks a lot, mate! I appreciate the kind words and I’m glad you are enjoying it. It’s a very complex game and even though the tool tips are pretty good, they still fall short of explaining all the intricacies, so you have to read the wiki… It’s super fun when you learn it though and I can’t wait to see paradox develop this over the years - although it’s scary to think the game can get even more complex, haha!
theres also flyingdutchy, he has a video "how to play victoria 3 netherlands"and explains everything like you said - carefully. i needed much slower explanation to learn this game and only now at 200 hours im starting to know what im doing
Thanks so much. Just finished your second in this series. Had the game for a month or so, tried kicking off myself, watched a couple of utubes that left me more confused, closed VIC 3 and found your site, reopened vic3 and it’s after midnight Thank you once again
Thanks for doing this. It's been a while since I last played, and I know they changed a lot of things with the recent update. I am learning a lot from this already. Like you, when I am playing low pop minors, I like to do the church hospital or church schools. Making the church happy with you also give you a boost to your birth rate, which for low pop minors is critical to get you population high enough to sustain your industries future employment needs.
Thanks! Yup, doing Charity Hospitals and getting the Church on your side is well explained by the game, but avoiding schools to keep literacy low, dropping taxes and increasing SoL to driving pop growth took me a while to figure out. Hope you continue to enjoy the series.
@immersioneer yes. I used to go for the schools to increase tech development, but I hadn't figured out how that affected sol expectations. One thing I have done when it comes to industry regarding upgrades, I have seen a lot of people instantly for all upgrades as soon as they have them, but some upgrades can result in large layoffs. So I often wait to do those upgrades until I am almost done with an expansion somewhere else so that there are jobs for those people about to be laid off to go to.
Hah, yeah! I don’t know what it is, but I’ve been playing Hoi4, CK3 and now V3 in and around Balkans for the past month! Kind of cool to keep seeing the same map in different iterations of PDX games. Might be an idea to actually follow through something like Serbia from CK3 to Hoi4 and on to Stellaris, haha!
Thank You - Very Informative! :) You could maybe brighten some video and Increase UI size from options. (see texts better when you explain) Thank You - Keep Going! :D
Thanks a lot for the feedback and the support! Glad you enjoyed the video! Ok, I will try to increase the UI size next time - I was wondering how people feel about it, so good that you pointed this out.
Haha, thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest of the series. I will likely do another series soon with a more developed nation to see how we can play as a “major” on the world stage, so stay tuned!
Haha, thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest of the series. I will likely do another series soon with a more developed nation to see how we can play as a “major” on the world stage, so stay tuned!
Thanks for your video, I like it. Regarding your tax settings at 1:06:30 the poor population groups pay the most taxes in proportion to their income. To somewhat justify this, I would use available authority to impose consumption tax on luxury products (that the poor part of your population does not buy). For example, consumption tax on luxury clothing, luxury furniture or wine.
Actually, what I said there was incorrect, because I didn't realise Serbia starts with Land-based taxation, which only imposes a Poll Tax on Peasants in the form of a special "Land Tax". That's why there is no Poll Tax on Middle and Upper Strata. Our strategy to keep taxes generally low and growing population as much as we can still holds, however, as when we do go to Per-Capita Taxation, we will be able to extract 0.4 tax per person even under Very Low tax levels.
Yeah, it’s a bit confusing, I think - I didn’t expect “farmers” to be middle strata. They are more like “small landholders”, but once you read the tooltip, it makes sense.
I've watched a quarter of the video and the question I wanted to ask you the whole time was, are you a native British citizen? Your accent sounds vaguely familiar, are you from Eastern Europe? Sorry if this is a personal question
Haha, no worries. I am originally Russian, but I moved to UK when I was a teenager, which was 20+ years ago. Interesting to hear how I come across on videos :)
Thanks for the guide. But could you please make the UI bigger next time? The letters are reeeeeally small in my 21' monitor. In the end I can only hear what you say, not see what you show.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks a lot for the feedback, I will start a new Let's Learn in the next couple of days and will scale the UI to be bigger!
@@immersioneer Thanks! I appreciate the effort! I've seen a bunch of guides when the game was released and never really understood how the game works, but your way of explaining by objectives is really clever.
Great question and I did exactly that in my trial playthroughs. However, you have to be VERY mindful of the budgetary deficit you will incur from a) wages for the construction sector that you have to pay REGARDLESS of whether any buildings are actually under construction (by public or private sector) and b) good purchases while you are constructing buildings. It is much better to maintain a slow and steady pace of construction while maintaining a small budget surplus than speeding up your construction by 20-30% and running up a deficit then you can then only resolve by either a) halting all construction and creating wide fluctuations in demand for fabric / logs in your economy or b) raising taxes that reduce SoL and dampen population growth. Hope this makes sense! I go over this in future episodes as well.
"Mcdonald meals".....calling that crap they feed you food 😅😅.In 2023?!?!😂😂By now they even lost a court case against them in USA and people still think they eat food at mcdonnald's.
Does religion really matter im the game? I guess it factors into radicalization, right? Seeing the culture and demographics screen really makes my mind just melt since it seems too complicated.
Religion only matters when determining which pops get discriminated against and nothing else, as far as I know. It doesn’t have any other effects on POPs.
Bosnia is an older state than Serbia, and was never part of Serbia. Furthermore, most powerful Bosnian king Tvrtko I, ruled over Serbia as well. Developers and publishers should learn history first.
Thanks, I didn't know that! It's a pretty complex region when it comes to history, so I guess they will tweak it in future patches. Would love to play Bosnia or Albania in the future!
Tvrtko was a Serb though, "King of Bosnia and Serbs", not "Serbia" since he didn't control any of it and not "Bosnians" since such people didn't exist at that time. He ruled over territory of Bosnia, thus he was a king of Bosnia, but people who lived there were Serbs. Also how is Bosnia older in any way at any point in history... It exists because Serbs there and outside of it fought for it's independence from other empires. Besides, if Tvrtko was a Bosniak, why aren't there any Bosniaks today called "Tvrtko" or any other name his descendants or predecessors held... Best regards, a fellow Bosnian.
An absolutely brilliant introduction to the game. I have watched a number of other tutorials but yours is like a lamp turning on in a dark room. Thank you for your time and effort.
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the kind words! Hope you enjoy the rest of the series. It does take time to understand each concept and then understand how they all come together, but I think it’s worth it. The game is great after 1.5 and I can’t wait to see more complexity added to it with future DLC. Makes you appreciate PDX work as well, once you understand the complexity!
I second this. I have 200+ hours on about 12-13 playthroughs (most never finished) and am still learning things, so it's really cool to watch someone else play, who's going in to a lot of detail about *why* they do stuff, instead of assuming everyone knows as much as they do. Refreshing!
This was great, as a returning player, this was easy to follow and understand. Recommend the whole series to new and returning players 👍
Thanks a lot for the kind words and support!
I played the game for free last week. Purchased it with all the DLC once the free weekend was over. This is just the video I need, to help get me started understanding the game and its mechanics.
I found this immensely helpful, as I’ve played the tutorial a couple times now and still had trouble with the game’s concepts. I will be attempting Columbia on my first play through.
Thanks a lot for this comment! I really appreciate it! So happy to see someone found this useful and can enjoy the game now! You can also take a quick look at the start of my Chile and Venezuela videos as they are both in South America and both focus on simple economic dominance and political liberalisation. I think the main challenge with South American minors is the lack of labour, so you need to understand the migration system, especially the international migration system. Unfortunately, I didn't understand it in my Venezuelan playthrough and didn't really showcase it enough though...
I find it funny how they couldn't really represent the weird government we had back then (hereditary peasant pseudo-military dictatorship?) - the "aristocracy" was basically nonexistent, comprised of warlords, not large landowners (most people had very little land, but most had it - there was even this "bare minimum land law" where a certain amount determined to be the bare minimum required for subsistence was banned from being sold or mortgaged)
Yeah, I think someone else told me in the comments that actually one of the first constitutions that were semi-democratic or at least included some basic rights for peasants was created in Serbia as well just before 1836. It's probably going to be a while, but maybe in the future paradox will provide more flavour to minor nations, which are my favourite to play in all PDX games.
Thanks for this tutorial, I think the most helpful you can find on CZcams. Are you planning to start another Vic3 series with the new patch anytime soon? That would be great!
just recently started playing victoria, absolutely lost in it's intricacies. looking forward to learning about the game from your playthrough. greetings from industrialized Serbia!
Thanks a lot! Haha, love the internet bringing you here! We shall unite the Serbs soon enough! Hope you enjoy the series and learn from it. Do comment if you have any questions - the game is even more complicated than it first appears.
Yes, YES, YESSSSSSSSSS! Ask and Immersioneer will provide. Thank you for this
Haha, thanks a lot! Your comment was definitely a factor in creating this series, so I hope you enjoy it!
I stumbled upon your tutorial and thank you so much for this.
I bought the game quite some time ago but found myself without time, so the little I could grasp I had already forgotten and this is excellent.
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the feedback! More Vicky 3 will come soon, especially after the June DLC that will bring quite a few welcome changes to the game!
I'm trying to come back to this game since the 1st month and man, am I confused as fk? I appreciate this playthrough and explanation. The tutorials are so unnecessarily in-depth out there on 1.5 I feel like I need a Ph.D. to learn this game. I just want someone to play, briefly cover the game, and explain why or what they are doing. And in a semi-entertaining way to where I at least can watch the whole video. A+
Thanks a lot, mate! I appreciate the kind words and I’m glad you are enjoying it. It’s a very complex game and even though the tool tips are pretty good, they still fall short of explaining all the intricacies, so you have to read the wiki… It’s super fun when you learn it though and I can’t wait to see paradox develop this over the years - although it’s scary to think the game can get even more complex, haha!
theres also flyingdutchy, he has a video "how to play victoria 3 netherlands"and explains everything like you said - carefully. i needed much slower explanation to learn this game and only now at 200 hours im starting to know what im doing
Haha, glad to hear it! I also like flyingdutchy’s videos, hoping to do a collab with him soon!
Thanks so much. Just finished your second in this series. Had the game for a month or so, tried kicking off myself, watched a couple of utubes that left me more confused, closed VIC 3 and found your site, reopened vic3 and it’s after midnight
Thank you once again
Wow, thanks a lot! Very interesting for me to hear how people look at my videos! Hope you learn from it and enjoy the game! Thanks again!
Thanks for doing this. It's been a while since I last played, and I know they changed a lot of things with the recent update. I am learning a lot from this already. Like you, when I am playing low pop minors, I like to do the church hospital or church schools. Making the church happy with you also give you a boost to your birth rate, which for low pop minors is critical to get you population high enough to sustain your industries future employment needs.
Thanks! Yup, doing Charity Hospitals and getting the Church on your side is well explained by the game, but avoiding schools to keep literacy low, dropping taxes and increasing SoL to driving pop growth took me a while to figure out. Hope you continue to enjoy the series.
@immersioneer yes. I used to go for the schools to increase tech development, but I hadn't figured out how that affected sol expectations.
One thing I have done when it comes to industry regarding upgrades, I have seen a lot of people instantly for all upgrades as soon as they have them, but some upgrades can result in large layoffs. So I often wait to do those upgrades until I am almost done with an expansion somewhere else so that there are jobs for those people about to be laid off to go to.
I see Serbia enjoyer :D I click like and sub at once hehehehe !
Haha, nice one! I think I have a cool idea for another let's learn once 1.7 and Spheres of Influence comes out next Monday, so stay tuned!
Love this, thanks!
Thanks a lot! Appreciate it and hope you enjoy!
Make The Kingdom Of Serbia Great Again!!! 14th century HYPE! Constantinople here we come Serbs & Greeks are back!
Hah, yeah! I don’t know what it is, but I’ve been playing Hoi4, CK3 and now V3 in and around Balkans for the past month! Kind of cool to keep seeing the same map in different iterations of PDX games. Might be an idea to actually follow through something like Serbia from CK3 to Hoi4 and on to Stellaris, haha!
@@immersioneer Oh yah 100% agree. Also all those games are amazin to watch as well. Ty for the shows
Thank You - Very Informative! :) You could maybe brighten some video and Increase UI size from options. (see texts better when you explain) Thank You - Keep Going! :D
Thanks a lot for the feedback and the support! Glad you enjoyed the video! Ok, I will try to increase the UI size next time - I was wondering how people feel about it, so good that you pointed this out.
Thank you for this very informative introduction to Vic 3. Paradox should hire you! :-)
Haha, thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest of the series. I will likely do another series soon with a more developed nation to see how we can play as a “major” on the world stage, so stay tuned!
Haha, thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest of the series. I will likely do another series soon with a more developed nation to see how we can play as a “major” on the world stage, so stay tuned!
Thanks for your video, I like it. Regarding your tax settings at 1:06:30 the poor population groups pay the most taxes in proportion to their income. To somewhat justify this, I would use available authority to impose consumption tax on luxury products (that the poor part of your population does not buy). For example, consumption tax on luxury clothing, luxury furniture or wine.
Actually, what I said there was incorrect, because I didn't realise Serbia starts with Land-based taxation, which only imposes a Poll Tax on Peasants in the form of a special "Land Tax". That's why there is no Poll Tax on Middle and Upper Strata. Our strategy to keep taxes generally low and growing population as much as we can still holds, however, as when we do go to Per-Capita Taxation, we will be able to extract 0.4 tax per person even under Very Low tax levels.
Not all peasants are farmers, but all farmers are peasants. haha That's how I would have thought it was. But I guess they have their own group.
Yeah, it’s a bit confusing, I think - I didn’t expect “farmers” to be middle strata. They are more like “small landholders”, but once you read the tooltip, it makes sense.
I've watched a quarter of the video and the question I wanted to ask you the whole time was, are you a native British citizen? Your accent sounds vaguely familiar, are you from Eastern Europe?
Sorry if this is a personal question
Haha, no worries. I am originally Russian, but I moved to UK when I was a teenager, which was 20+ years ago. Interesting to hear how I come across on videos :)
Thank you
Hah, thank YOU for watching :) I hope you subbed and liked as well, haha!
The white text for countries is so much better for readability. How did you manage that?
You mean in game? I think it’s just the default, I didn’t change any settings.
Thanks for the guide.
But could you please make the UI bigger next time?
The letters are reeeeeally small in my 21' monitor.
In the end I can only hear what you say, not see what you show.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks a lot for the feedback, I will start a new Let's Learn in the next couple of days and will scale the UI to be bigger!
@@immersioneer Thanks! I appreciate the effort! I've seen a bunch of guides when the game was released and never really understood how the game works, but your way of explaining by objectives is really clever.
What is the list off mods you use?
No mods, I always play vanilla.
@@immersioneer Thank you
does this still work
Most of it, but there were important changes to how ownership works in 1.7, so ignore everything that talks about ownership and its link to politics.
Why don't you start with another construction sector. This would only need 100 construction as compared to the 200 for the logging camp?
Great question and I did exactly that in my trial playthroughs. However, you have to be VERY mindful of the budgetary deficit you will incur from a) wages for the construction sector that you have to pay REGARDLESS of whether any buildings are actually under construction (by public or private sector) and b) good purchases while you are constructing buildings. It is much better to maintain a slow and steady pace of construction while maintaining a small budget surplus than speeding up your construction by 20-30% and running up a deficit then you can then only resolve by either a) halting all construction and creating wide fluctuations in demand for fabric / logs in your economy or b) raising taxes that reduce SoL and dampen population growth. Hope this makes sense! I go over this in future episodes as well.
"Mcdonald meals".....calling that crap they feed you food 😅😅.In 2023?!?!😂😂By now they even lost a court case against them in USA and people still think they eat food at mcdonnald's.
Haha, yes, indeed :)
Does religion really matter im the game? I guess it factors into radicalization, right? Seeing the culture and demographics screen really makes my mind just melt since it seems too complicated.
Religion only matters when determining which pops get discriminated against and nothing else, as far as I know. It doesn’t have any other effects on POPs.
Bosnia is an older state than Serbia, and was never part of Serbia. Furthermore, most powerful Bosnian king Tvrtko I, ruled over Serbia as well. Developers and publishers should learn history first.
Thanks, I didn't know that! It's a pretty complex region when it comes to history, so I guess they will tweak it in future patches. Would love to play Bosnia or Albania in the future!
Tvrtko was a Serb though, "King of Bosnia and Serbs", not "Serbia" since he didn't control any of it and not "Bosnians" since such people didn't exist at that time. He ruled over territory of Bosnia, thus he was a king of Bosnia, but people who lived there were Serbs. Also how is Bosnia older in any way at any point in history... It exists because Serbs there and outside of it fought for it's independence from other empires.
Besides, if Tvrtko was a Bosniak, why aren't there any Bosniaks today called "Tvrtko" or any other name his descendants or predecessors held...
Best regards, a fellow Bosnian.
This is untrue if we are talking honest... But its ok :) @admirhuric7011