Generally ownership types are locked behind different laws, yes, and you can probably expect capitalists that have been 'made redundant' by the government to not take that lying down.
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Yeah, there will be a cost for changing production methods, though we're still iterating on that part so not ready to explain exactly how it works.
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We have resource depletion only in a few select cases, I think it would be interesting but probably not something we'll have in a widespread way on release (there is full support for it in the code though, if modders want to make iron etc depletable)
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Wages are set by each privately owned building independently by balancing trying to achieve full employment with trying to minimize wage costs. The short version of the logic is that each week a building that require labor will check if it can afford to raise wages to attract more workers, and will only do so if it's able. The effect of this is that qualified labor shortage will drive up wages for as long as buildings can afford to pay, while a healthy supply of Peasants will keep wages depressed and dividends high.
Government wages are based on an average of private industry wages across incorporated states but can be controlled to a limited extent by the player.
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When a job is being offered that pays more than they currently make + a small margin.
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Shopkeepers are middle class pops that are made obsolete in large numbers when you switch away from the early production methods, which is how we simulate this effect.
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I'm unsure if this entirely answers your question but you can set up any pop type working in a building to get a share of the profits, and who gets a share and how much is set by the production methods.
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It's assuming full employment, since that's what the building will drift towards eventually if all goes well for it.
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In general, pops whose jobs are made obsolete by changes in technology or laws should be angered by it, especially if they used to own the industries that have been taken over by others.This is the first dev diary that I've seen that is simply amazing in its detail of treatment and sophistication of concept. Wow.
So here's a question. When captalists displace shopkeepers from ownership of a business, do those shopkeepers get pissed off sometimes and begin to riot and burn the new business and its equipment? Sure hope so! Where are the Luddites, I ask you!
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This isn't how the Victoria 3 Qualifications mechanic works actually, a Capitalist might very well qualify to take a (higher-paying) Machinist job. "Qualifications" is taken to mean "could this person possibly be offered this job"? More on the Qualifications system in a future DD, it has a bit more nuance to it and is not actually a binary thing.
As a result the initial question is legit, it's possible for a middle or even upper strata Pop to take a mining job that pays better even though there's a risk of dying. In actuality, if these Pops are willing to do that they're in pretty dire financial straits.
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As a catchall answer to the questions about private ownership vs publicly traded, how this works isn't something we're ready to answer at this stage.
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Buildings orient themselves financially the same way under Command Economy as other economies, with the difference that all buildings are considered subsidized. So a building that's very profitable on its own doesn't burden the treasury, but any "profits" would (by default) be siphoned off by the Bureaucrats in charge. Meanwhile, buildings that can't carry their own weight will require regular (automatic) cash infusions from state coffers.
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They will change Profession in the process, to be clear.
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If you wanted to keep the merchant guilds in charge, the only real way to improve your productivity would either be to maintain artificial scarcity of the produced goods or focus on acquiring vast amounts of raw resources to ensure they have super-cheap inputs, with the latter probably being the more realistic option. So basically, you could have a huge section of your population making handcrafted clothes from cheap cotton and that would probably be reasonably profitable and employ a lot of moderately prosperous middle-class shopkeepers, but in terms of goods production per head it'd lag behind more industrialized countries.
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Buildings don't currently gain experience as such, but State Traits can impact Buildings in their state in various ways, creating local differences in viability and competitiveness. This is in addition to the resource potentials that determine how large industries of various types you can build there, of course.
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The UI is a constant work in progress. There are even things depicted in this Dev Diary that have been tweaked in the latest dev build of the game.
Constructive feedback on what you would like to see improved is always welcome!
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At the moment no, but I have been personally toying with the idea that maybe they should under certain economic systems. No promises that this will be in release though. The main problem with aristocrats owning mines at the earliest methods is that it doesn't transition in the same logical way as capitalists buying out and taking over merchant guild operations, and also ownership of mines is something that varied quite a bit between different countries so it wouldn't be accurate everywhere either.
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Yes, and in different proportions if desired. So for example, you could have have a Production Method where Capitalists own 5 shares each while Engineers own 1, meaning the dividends are split 5:1 between them.
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