Playing as Prussia I had the war with France in 1870 and got the Three Hurays for the German Empire event ending the war and making me Germany. After that I focused on building up my economy with all my new land and so didn't notice the peace treaty with France was about to expire until I got the pop up. I rushed my troops to the border but they had too many troops and ended up occuping a lot of southern germany. Through moblizing I was able to wipe out isloated French divisions and drive their WE up to where they would accept a white peace. I was pretty happy my strategy worked until I looked at my budget and noticed that I was producing just about half what I was before I made peace (Exports went from about 480 to about 250). My industrial rating had also dropped from about 440 to about 230.
I then used neville and a lot of reloads to try and test why it was doing this. To check production I looked at a regular clothes factory. Before making peace it produced about 0.5 units of clothes a day with a total production in the country of about 1.5. After making peace the first time this dropped to about 0.3 in that factory and 0.8 overall. I ran the game for another 2 or 3 months and it still stayed at the lowered value.
My first theory was maybe it was something to do with mobilization so I reloaded and fought the war again without mobilizing (and actually managed to hold the French at the border). Watching carefully I noticed a smaller but still noticible drop in production a few days after peace. The only provinces occupied were my colonies in africa. As another test I tried making peace before any provinces were occupied and there was no noticable drop.
Unless this is some feature I don't know about related to losing prestige in a war I can't figure out what causes it exactly other than it being related to making peace.
I then used neville and a lot of reloads to try and test why it was doing this. To check production I looked at a regular clothes factory. Before making peace it produced about 0.5 units of clothes a day with a total production in the country of about 1.5. After making peace the first time this dropped to about 0.3 in that factory and 0.8 overall. I ran the game for another 2 or 3 months and it still stayed at the lowered value.
My first theory was maybe it was something to do with mobilization so I reloaded and fought the war again without mobilizing (and actually managed to hold the French at the border). Watching carefully I noticed a smaller but still noticible drop in production a few days after peace. The only provinces occupied were my colonies in africa. As another test I tried making peace before any provinces were occupied and there was no noticable drop.
Unless this is some feature I don't know about related to losing prestige in a war I can't figure out what causes it exactly other than it being related to making peace.
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