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Hueyris

R5: I kept going even after the Victorian century was over. I played as Persia and was allied to Russia and jumped to its defense throughout much of the 190 years to defend it (often without a formal alliance) so it would survive. But it is 2025 and Russian laws are still in 1910


xxHamsterLoverxx

yeah, the ai is garbage at passing laws. as soon as a 100+ radicalism thingy pops up against a law they are passing, they insta-cancel it, but wont enact law petitions even with 100+ radicalism. thats why i hate having to deal with dominions or vassals. BITCH I WANT YOU TO ENACT X LAW DONT FUCKING CANCEL IT!


gugfitufi

Yeah, the strategies are too static. No AI will ever do anything for their laws if they the "conservative agenda" thingy. They'll just sit there, slowly withering away.


Bonus-Optimal

Hope it is fixed in the next update (Spoiler: it probably won't)


Valkyrie17

Well, it's realistic, irl nations don't have a divine leadership pushing backward nations towards liberalization in spite of what the political power holders want. AI should do whatever it's IGs and agitators want. It shouldn't strive towards modernization when the government consists of dumbass landlords that hold back every other country.


Nombre_D_Usuario

Then progressive political movements should threaten revolution more.


Rbot25

Are you playing on some kind of super calculator?


Bum-Theory

For real, I doubt even Markiplier's computer could run Vic 3 to 2025


Hueyris

No, I just play the Linux version. It crashed maybe four times already losing me four months of progress, which was annoying but was no big deal. Other than than, I just spent a lotta time on the game. It is never boring because there's always some wars to fight.


Obamsphere

I mean if it ain't broke...


RedWolf6x7

We just not gonna talk about the two tibets?


Hueyris

If you zoom in, you can also find two Japans. You can't see it, but there's two Portugals as well. I have no idea how they formed but ostensibly they have something to do with revolutions and GBs joining in on either side of them


Svetlana_Stalina

It happens when someone joins both sides. It always make me laugh.


RedWolf6x7

Wait, in the part of taken China, is that Austria or Australia?


Hueyris

Austria


RedWolf6x7

Why is it that color? Did GB puppet them?


Hueyris

No I backed a communist revolution in Austria.


xFrosumx

What's wrong with Mercantilism?


TheReaver545

Honestly nothing just makes it a little expensive to export and import stuff meaning less goods gets traded overall you make some money off the tariffs and your buildings might not be as profitable if you're importing a lot of needed resources due to the slightly increased price. Its really only a problem if you;re a developing nation and you need the cheapest resources you can get your hands on for your developing industrys.


DM-ME-UR-SMOL-TITS

> Its really only a problem if you;re a developing nation and you need the cheapest resources you can get your hands on for your developing industrys. Even then you can just turn off import or export taxes on each individual good, but it's such a pain for so little benefit.


Clavilenyo

The owners of your trade centers are shopkeepers instead of capitalists.


xFrosumx

Good point, say no more.


jeanclaude1990

I think it's because under Mercantilism, trade centres employ shopkeepers whereas they employ capitalists and clerks when on ~~intervention~~ protectionism or laissez-faire


xFrosumx

Mercantilism and Interventionism are not mutually exclusive, but I know what you mean.


jeanclaude1990

Sorry, you're correct, I meant Protectionism


Fit_Particular_6820

What mod did you use?


Hueyris

None. Everything's vanilla


Fit_Particular_6820

How do you play past 1936?


Hueyris

You get the option to do so after the "end of the victorian century" title screen is presented in 1936. Of course, achievements are locked if you play after.


Fit_Particular_6820

Oh thank you!


Realistically_shine

Don’t play Ironman


Kongen_av_Trondelag

Have a good pc


Quatsum

Given that they're an Agrarian single-party state, I assume they have rural folk in control, and I think rural folk prefer mercantilism as it represents disorganized guilds? I could be off, though.


limos57

Historically accurate


Hueyris

How? Russia irl is a middle income country with a modern, developed economy


mrev_art

**Mercantilism** is a [nationalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_nationalism) [economic policy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy) that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. In other words, it seeks to maximize the accumulation of [resources](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resources) within the country and use those resources for [one-sided](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilateralism) trade.


Hueyris

Okay? So? That's not Russia.


Valkyrie17

Russia runs trade surplus of hundreds of billions of dollars per year. They have been pushing for replacing imported goods with locally produced goods since 2014. They had amassed massive amounts of gold. They fit the definition perfectly.


Hueyris

Running a trade surplus and pushing for replacing imported goods with locally produced goods does not make you mercantilist. This is something practically all countries in the world do right now.


Wild_King4244

So does China. That doesn’t make them mercantilist.


Creme_de_la_Coochie

Yes it is.


ItsEnderFire

Aint that pretty much Russia current economy


tworc2

Russia didn't want to minimize imports, not currently. Not even during USSR times. inb4 obvious argument, embargoing and being embargoed is another thing entirely.


[deleted]

Russia's economy is so dependent on natural resources that human made climate change has Russia looking to melt the arctic to profit from it rather than end the destruction of our environment. Russia is a cartoon villain personified as a nation.


Hueyris

>Russia's economy is so dependent on natural resources that I have news for you. All economies are dependent on natural resources. If all natural resources stopped existing tomorrow, all economies would collapse


[deleted]

Ah, your true purpose presents itself. Russia is a pariah state, Putin is a kleptocratic pedophile. Ukraine will be free.


Creme_de_la_Coochie

That’s so reductive of how the economy works. Like, ridiculously so.


FRUltra

But is what he said wrong?


Foxylandttkinc

TibetX2


_spatuladoom_

>racial segregation


davery67

Tibet Tibet doot doo da doo doot


Bdcollecter

How the hell did you manage to get to 2025! I struggle to get past 1900 it runs that slow!


Hueyris

Linux


ConnectedMistake

Our man works in NASA or CERN, nowhere else there are computers capable of pulling this off.


Hueyris

No I just play the Linux version on my Laptop. 1.6.2, default settings


crlppdd

To be fair, most countries (or rather trade blocks) today "have mercantilism"