Questions about 1.9

[dr_AllCOM3]

1. Is there a way to make companies grow faster?
2. How do I reliably get countries into my bloc, besides conquering them? Seems like the only way is stacking a ton of treaties and then waiting. Building something doesn't help.
3. Is there an easy way to see which states lack local goods like transport or electricity? I constantly run into bottlenecks, because there's no overview.
4. Can I catch up tech as a third world country? Overstacking universities doesn't seem to provide research anymore.
5. Is there an overview for trade capacity? I never know if I have to build more trade centers.

 

[FranklyJustNess]

1. How do I reliably get countries into my bloc, besides conquering them? Seems like the only way is stacking a ton of treaties and then waiting. Building something doesn't help.
2. Is there an easy way to see which states lack local goods like transport or electricity? I constantly run into bottlenecks, because there's no overview.
3. Can I catch up tech as a third world country? Overstacking universities doesn't seem to provide research anymore..

1. It definitely should, except that if your company establishes a regional HQ, then all their buildings stop being considered yours for calculations of economic dependence.
2. I usually use a map for local price of transportation and electricity and look for outliers. Sadly I am pretty sure there is no way to have this map, and also be building railways/power plants.
3. I think it never did, it just boosts how much tech spread you are getting. It's like 20% of innovation over the cap gets converted into it.

 

[Citizen Caen]

1. Is there a way to make companies grow faster?
2. How do I reliably get countries into my bloc, besides conquering them? Seems like the only way is stacking a ton of treaties and then waiting. Building something doesn't help.
3. Is there an easy way to see which states lack local goods like transport or electricity? I constantly run into bottlenecks, because there's no overview.
4. Can I catch up tech as a third world country? Overstacking universities doesn't seem to provide research anymore.
5. Is there an overview for trade capacity? I never know if I have to build more trade centers.

1. Companies grow faster the more profit they make. One way to encourage growth is use subventions to encourage export of the goods they produce. The second way is granting them monopolies which gives them a discount on buying buildings of their type.

2. Depends on the type of power bloc. I find it somewhat more difficult to get countries to willingly join sovereign empires, but they are eager to join trade leagues. Treaties are the main way: add guarantee independence, trade privileges, investment rights, power bloc embassy in one treaty and that alone will get you most of the way there on leverage. Use trade to make up the rest of it. If they import more of your goods it makes the more eager to join.

3. Go to your market-> basic goods-> scroll to the bottom, you’ll see local goods depicted as buttons at the bottom of the screen. -> click on the button it will show all local prices in your market for that good. You can also build in this window. This allows you to easily identify and solve shortages.

4. Going over the tech limit still provides spread, it just requires more universities now because innovation per building got nerfed. What I recommend is build to your innovation limit first, when your economy is situated and you start having a budget surplus, rather than lower taxes, slowly build up to around 200 universities. You will catch up in tech.

5. There is but it’s a separate way from answer 3. Click on your production lens-> click on the trade center building-> on the far right side of the panel that opens, trade demand per state is listed. If a state has 0 excess capacity, but like 100 trade demand, build 10 trade centers there.

 

[Helmut von Dandy]

Is there an easy way to see which states lack local goods like transport or electricity? I constantly run into bottlenecks, because there's no overview.

At the bottom of the Market screen there's a Local Goods section. Click the button for each to see a list of supply and demand in each state.

Can I catch up tech as a third world country? Overstacking universities doesn't seem to provide research anymore.

They do, but you also need literacy to increase the innovation cap. You need the education institution for that and good jobs for literacy from wealth. The social mobility decree in populous states can also help.

Is there an overview for trade capacity? I never know if I have to build more trade centers.

If you construct a trade center from the production lens you'll get a list of all your states and their Trade Capacity Usage and Trade Potential. If trade capacity usage is 0 they're using all their trade capacity.