


Your strong economy always comes at someone's expense.Ĭheck out the teaser trailer for The Little Mermaid, the upcoming live-action reimagining of the animated musical classic. Victoria 3 doesn't make you colonize, or engage in colonialism, but it sure does give you an understanding of why it developed. So raw materials don't always come cheap… and that's when you start looking overseas, or at less-developed neighbors. Paradox's developers were clear that the AI was very unpolished at the nuances, so that's something to want improvements in before release. It also didn't always understand when it should back down from a fight. The AI, however, has its own goals that range from obvious and clever diplomatic alliances to quixotic and seemingly random economic choices. So you go to your neighbors, or international allies, and set up a trade route that also generates profit for your government via tariffs-or doesn't, if you have a trade agreement. Those mills might have a lucrative side-business in luxury clothing that you'd like to export, but your economy doesn't produce enough fabric to support the extra input. A shortage of clothing on the market might drive you to invest money in more textile mills. It's complex, sure, but made approachable by clear, obvious screens that give you a summary of how your market works… or doesn't work. Abundance makes the price go down, need makes it go up-that snowballs into profits, how much the people working there are getting paid… which affects how much they can buy. It's all simple supply and demand principles based around a base price for each item compared to what it's actually being sold for.
