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:haha: Brilliant

While this post may come to bite me in the behind in the long run, with all the strikes and riots you guys are experiencing, you need one additional lesson on how to manage your economies.

The previous lesson focused on how to make as much private capital as possible from your economies. Well guess what, people in the 19th century liked poverty and misery as much as anyone today (ie. not at all), so you need something sweet to keep them happy.

In additional to policies you have available in your F1 (government), F4 (economy) and F6 (social) screens that can help you reduce militancy and increase contentment, your citizens also have needs for specific products.

In the F6 screen, you can see how much each class of your society wants to buy from a specific product group (food, common and luxury goods). However, it is not enough to satisfy their quantitative needs, you also need to satisfy their qualitative needs, meaning that you need to have different types of goods from each category (for common goods, this would be textile, coffee, tea, wine, etc...).

Lastly, nothing brings up happiness on the national market as much as luxury goods. So while it makes good economic sense to sell these high value products on the world market, it makes better political and social sense to make the necessary amount available to your national market. You can decide how much of a product you make available by (left-/right-)clicking on the product icons in the F4 screen and the game will automatically tell you how much of a specific product you will sell.

To summarize: build luxury goods factories, build silk farms (France and Austria) or try to buy the necessary products on the international market.

Remember, working and functional economies benefit everyone!

Don't know who your informants are for Prussia but I would suggest you have them shot for providing false intel on the stability of Prussia. I'm not having any strikes or riots.

Think at most a long while ago 1 province had a months of riots and strikes which I managed after first sending in MP units, adjusting the internal market to provide more goods, providing more types of goods on the internal market by trade and the build of a few extra luxury goods factories.

So far all content levels are well above the 50 in the census.

This is what puzzles me.
Every luxury on the trade screen is demanded less than I offer them.
Let's say I set my luxury production to give 120 crates (?) for the intenral market, but the people buy only 80, and they're still unhappy :doh:

They're Austrian...I mean, it's almost like being German except periodically you start a world war.

And Slovene, and Italian and Croatian and Czech and Slovak and Ukranian and Hungarian and Poles and Russian and Gypsy and Serb.

I am confused as to how your population could continue to be so unhappy, Betonov. :hmmm:

But as I said, you need quantity and quality. You need to offer them luxury goods, gems and silk, all of which you have available. For example, I produce more than enough luxury goods (produced in factories), but no matter the level I set it to, the national market will only buy two of them, less than 20% of total demand for the item group.

If that does not work, try getting additional types of luxury goods, as well as pass additional reforms, or send MP units in rioting regions. Also, make certain that you offer different types of food and common goods as well. Coffee is important and is always in demand, but difficult to buy. Send a trade ship to Brazil's southern trading region (La Plata, I believe) and build a coffee plantation there. It only costs around 2000 capital to set it up. :wah:

Ah, hvala :up:

It seems another trade reform is in order :dead:

Meanwhile in Prussia:

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c5&oe=575644F8

He gets my vote :know:

What, it's that time of the century already :o

Nah not yet, but in 3 years he'll become Prussia's foreign minister then another year later my Minister President and then....

http://i.imgur.com/FMBSXsf.jpg?1

:hmmm:

http://i.imgur.com/ArpvIVi.jpg?1

Where did you get that! :stare:

Hired a couple of investigators :03:

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C'mon, Sherlock is still a child in 1859 :O:

So is Cecil Rhodes, but that's not stopping me trying to get this Cape to Cairo railway business done. :O:

I have no idea why there might be a coal shortage...

Now excuse me while I lay some more track for my trains...

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/960e58c0a7...ard-a7wx5d.jpg