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Jul 6, 2025
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I really think current production method system is really bad. I can prohibit all my factories from producing basic clothing and bankrupt clothing factories or revert to primitive PMs even in laizzes faire economy. I usually forget, don't bother adjusting it for every state etc.

The biggest pain in the ss is railway PMs and electricity PMs. I never, ever check available workers, available transportation for every state and adjust them per state, What i generally do is switch every building to railway PM and try to deal with shortages.

What i suggest is a slider which ai can adjust every week or so for optimal productivity. They slide to railways until it's too expensive, companies build more railways, they slide more. It's much more realistic with a lot less micromanagement. Huge factories or mines don't change their transportation method overnight.

This should be applied to most of the PMs of private buildings, but it's not that important for some of them because there is a clearly better one and you don't have to micromanage that much.

Another pro of this is foreign owned buildings can use technology of their owners. If my oil company owns %20 of an oil drill in iran, that oil drill can use %20 of advanced oil extraction slider. İmplementing foreign technology is not possible in current version.

This is one of the biggest issues at the current version of the game for me. I hate local shortages, forgeting to make luxury adjustments etc. I guess biggest issue would be optimisation but in paradox we trust.
 
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They already seem to be on the case for this, as they said in the "What's next after 1.9" Dev Diary.

  • The Trade Rework managed to find a good balance between autonomous economic actors and player control, giving the player powerful strategic tools to manipulate trade but removing the micromanagement aspect present in the previous trade system. This level of control is something we intend to use as a guideline when creating or redesigning features in the future - for example, I could envision doing something similar with production methods on privately owned building levels.