Typically it appears on things like abolition (if you have slavery) or suffrage, so those are generally the easiest way to get your reforms passed.
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Thank you for the helpful update! I was not aware of suppression points having that use. Out of curiosity though, are there any events related to the area you lost to the UK that you will miss out on now? Or do you plan to conquer it later?
There is an event that trades Columbia (the colony I also went for in British Columbia) for Washington which grants a relations boost and some Prestige.
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I'm thinking of doing a long series of updates regarding political parties, and the massive effect that they have on the game (and, perhaps more importantly, how you play it). Starting with an introduction just to the Political Party system.
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Sounds like a good idea. Maybe then you can explain why China doesn't get an interventionist party until very late game.
China shouldn't really need interventionists for a while, should they?
Depends on what you prioritize. I played a game where by about 1890 I had something like 3 million unemployed craftsmen and would really have liked it if my capitalists stepped up and got some work done.
Subbed. I haven't played Victoria 2 since 2012, but I'm gonna buy some DLC on the next Steam sale. I remember very little about Vic 2 and maybe this AAR will be refreshing for me.
As long as you didn't have Laissez Faire you should be good there, no?
Well, I don't have time in any one session to really go in depth and build factories as I need to, and upgrading them all is an expensive nightmare. It would be lovely if my 60,000 or so Capitalists I've focused up could do some of the heavy lifting themselves (I even had to build most of my level one railroads myself, AI did the rest) but they seem to just sit on their collective rumps, even though half are getting luxury needs met. I think State Capitalism is making it too expensive for them, but I have no options to switch away.
Upgrading your own factories as industrialized China is tedious, I'll grant you, but shouldn't seriously threaten your treasury. Are you playing PDM or any of its sub-mods?
Militancy seems to usually be my problem as China as well. Going Beiyang China would probably fix that, but that's easier said than done. Alternatively, you could let Jacobins take over your country to get some reforms passed and hopefully reduce militancy.
Yes but I like my absolutist control. And I really don't want the liberals in power, as they have all the negatives and none of the positives.
In what way do the liberals have all of the negatives with none of the positives?
They have Anti Military without having Interventionism or Laissez-Faire
So you get to build your own factories and pay your soldiers less, while still having decent tax rate. Where's the problem?
I don't like having to build all my factories myself, I'd much rather my capitalists do it for me, and I've noticed that paying my soldiers less really bites me when I suddenly need to ramp up my standing army, say when Russia declares war on me.
How so? Paying your soldiers less (especially as China) doesn't really have a substantive impact on the number of troops that you can field, as far as I have experienced (I haven't tested this).
I find that it works fine for most times, but when I need a lot of troops quickly suddenly no one wants to join up.