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[IHateOutside]

Grr photobucket is down. No update till its back up.

[zchris13]

Imageshack is pretty good. Lets you make image groups too.

[mainiac]

I played this game very little before upgrading to revolutions.  So that's pretty different since capitalists don't build factories and railroads IIRC.  This allows for dwarfy behavior though!  Tax the nobles into poverty!

The U.S. is a surprisingly fun choice in this game.  Yes, you are richer then God and can steamroller your enemies, but you have easy but fun wars against England, Mexico, Mexico again, CSA and Spain.  But better yet, it's possible to buy the continent of Africa from Europe, who will then stupidly spend the money on socialized healthcare and wine.  Clearly, there is nothing more American then buying a continent!

[IHateOutside]

Lets get this show on the road! With a status report...

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This is the overview of Switzwerland. From it, you can see our overall ranking and our ranking in the individual sections that make up the overall rank. Might i mention that our military power is only 2 less than Austria, the white blob on the right?

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Our factories. We have everything here needed to produce infranty and a steel factory which will come in handy for railroads and such. All of Switzerland's 9 provinces is one state. We have two machine parts. For those who never played this game(SHAME ON YOU) these are needed to make factories. Factories produce the finished goods that you need for a lot of things, such as forts, railways, recruiting soldiers and building more factories. Most factories require resources procued from provinces to work. An example would be a lumber factories, which takes wood from a province and turns it into lumber. At the minute we can only afford to build a cement factory, which seems like a sensible idea.

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These are the resources our small empire in the making produces from its regions. Quite a good spread.The iron and coal are very useful, as steel and cement(just coal) are made from them along with some other stuff i think. The cattle makes canned food with iron. The other stuff i'm not too sure about.

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The remaining details. Are all pretty self-explanitary.

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The area which I think we should target first. Feel free to suggest otherwise.

Whew, thats alot of starting information. Still gotta deal with the budget and trade on the world market, which is some of the most complicated stuff. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

[Christes]

Note that you have no armies.

[IHateOutside]

Note that you have no armies.

12 in reserve, however. We have 0 relations with eveyone, so things may turn sour quickly.

[Christes]

Of course, but that's still only 12

Build some!  Get a place in the sun

[IHateOutside]

So what should I do? Heres a list of what I think i should do:

• Research pratical steam engine. Its a prerequisite to experimental railroads. You need railroads.
• Increase the number of divisions we have, if we can afford it, and mobilize those we have in reserve
• sort out the budget. 49% tax for all classes, 50% crime figting and education, any deficit made up with tariffs.

Feel free to suggest your own ideas. If noone disagrees, i'll be doing that in a couple of hours.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

Steam engine is the most sciency idea. I support it fully! But we really should balance that budget first.

[SniHjen]

100% education, always!

education = literacy = science!


Don't mobilize, instead, train armies.

Mobilizing is seen as being a hostile action.

Go for steampower!

[Christes]

Get literacy to 100%

Also, don't mobilize the reserves unless you need them (i.e. war)

edit: Oh yes, and definitelly balance the budget.  Good luck with that; it's usually the hardest thing at first, especially for those who aren't like total experts.

[andrea]

this game looks interesting.

[Nirur Torir]

Anyone have any experience with Gamersgate (particularly copy protection)? They're having a sale for all Paradox games 50% off. Victoria + expansion pack are $12.45 together (Save 3 cents for buying the complete edition instead of buying them separately!).

[Christes]

I bought Revolutions from Gamer's Gate a couple years back, played with it for a while and then forgot about it.

A couple months ago, I wanted to reinstall it.  It took about 10-15 minutes to get my password back, but they still had the game there for me and there was no problem downloading or installing.  I have no complaints there.

As for copy protection, I haven't tested it extensively but have had no problems.  I don't know what it would be like to, say, move it from one computer to another.

[IHateOutside]

I also need to do the trade. I'm thinking 200 steel and concrete, 100 of everything needed for soldiers, and a small (enough for two conversions) stack of stuff needed to convert POPs into craftsdwarvesmen and clerks.