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[LegitMacgyver]

Ok this game looks like it will be pretty awesome actually.

I have joined up in Japan, and Japan looks like it has a lot of potential.  Japanese Empire includes Mainland Japan, Korea, and several pacific islands. 

One of the great deals is that nearly every province in Japan and Korea has all the vital biome hexes including mountains, plains, and jungles.  Beat the England.

Additionally any invasion of the mainland will be very difficult, however a strong Japanese navy would make things interesting.

Japan also requires fewer players to activate than China.  Currently about 10 players including myself. 

Long live the Emperor!  BANZAI!

[Sheb]

Why are you outside of Britain you all?

Jeez, if you want to play in asia with perfect provinces, join in India!

[RedKing]

Construction continues on the University of Dundee. We should have Vehicle Engine 2 developed before diplo unlock. Then it's on to researching 1935 technology so we can start working on all those new fancy designs.

Also, plugging myself as a candidate for Education Minister since my province development is going to be focused on research.

[Neyvn]

Is research Countryversal then???

[RedKing]

Yup. According to the info I can find, discoveries are shared country-wide, and research points can be pooled as well. The Education Minister can set preferred research targets, but I'm not sure how it works as far as controlling/influencing other people's research allocations (or seeing what research points other people have).

[andrea]

took Dumfries, in scotland. It seems I have only 3 hills, but there were lots of lvl 1 buildings. I suppose I saved several minutes of clicking.

I am just north of Paul.

Trying to improve my production buildings a bit... in a few minutes I should have finished the first missions ( they really take little time, when you start with 60k wood/ cement. Not that I am complaining)

I might try focusing on ships later, but I am not sure. I have tons of plains, maybe I can be GB's granary?

[Sheb]

Actually, moving stuff like food around is going to be expensive as hell in term of fuel. I was thinking of becoming a huge steelmill, but I don't think it's worth it.

[andrea]

oh, well. I'll spend the next few days building sawmills and cement factories anyway

[martinuzz]

I wouldn't mind if my 2 inactive neighbors in Londonderry and Forgotthename were readied for invasion as soon as the country activates. I could really use their hills and trees, Belfast only has plains, swamps and 6 forests

In the one province, the level 2 city is starving, in the other province, about 8 steel mills are red

[martinuzz]

Actually, moving stuff like food around is going to be expensive as hell in term of fuel. I was thinking of becoming a huge steelmill, but I don't think it's worth it.

I wonder if bulk transporting goods by boat is more efficient?

[Sheb]

Yes it is. Not THAT efficient still.

[Paul]

Trains use coal according to the wiki, which is the cheapest resource to produce. A single level 20 coal mine produces 8000 for only 334 workers.

I'm working on producing a train soon. Just saving up the rubber and upgrading my factories to get enough production points to build it.

-edit- Also, when I do get the train I can start sending bulk loads of cement and lumber to people connected to me by tracks every so often (trains hold 500,000), which I'm hoping will accelerate new people's growth. Not sure how long it'll be before I get one though, the production window seems to think it'll take 23 days for me to produce 14k build points, but it also claims I produce over 400 per hour so im not sure how that works.

[andrea]

Thank for the truck of resources, paul!
It will be greatly helpful.

Whenever I get enough steel, I'll link myself to the railroad network, but that will take several days.

Meanwhile, what do you think I should do, besides upgrading resource buildings?

[martinuzz]

I need a railway tunnel under the Irish sea

[Paul]

Well, it's up to you what to produce. You'll want to be able to upgrade your city a lot to increase population growth, and that takes tons of cement, lumber, and steel. I've been spending tens of thousands of steel on my city upgrades. Even though I have over 2.5k steel per hour production I'm still using it all up upgrading everything.

When building supplies are scarce you'll want lots of low level buildings since they produce more per resource invested, but later on you'll want fewer higher level buildings to better utilize your workers since the higher level ones are more efficient per worker. Thats why my focus has shifted to upgrading my higher level buildings even higher, but I'm limited by total workers.

My own strategy was spam tons of lumber/cement buildings for the first week or so, upgrading them as I could, just to get enough building supplies to branch into other things. I started with steel producing buildings after a few days when I had some extra materials, to get steel production started off. After the first 6 days I think it was I stopped upgrading some of my buildings (the level 12 ones) to eventually demolish them, since you have to demolish 1 level at a time. I started to hit my population cap the last few days, limiting my upgrading, and I've taken down 7 of the level 12 buildings since yesterday and replaced them with other buildings (rubber production, and some buildings to satisfy the missions - I'm aiming for the city missions, since they give lots of new people).

That strategy was born out of a serious lack of raw materials though. If I can get this train in a reasonable time frame I could boost your development quite a bit with a few train loads of raw materials, which could probably get you to the point where you're utilizing all your population much faster and wouldn't have to rely on tons and tons of low level buildings to get started. I don't know how long the train will take though, you might be better off just focusing on doing it yourself for now lol...

I'm hoping to have excess steel production soon as well, but like I said so far my upgrades have been sucking it up as fast as I produce it.