And so August of 1855 shall go down in history as the month all powers of the world decided to have a big trade reform for no aparent reason

Thanks for your kind words guys, but don't forget that the economic plan I presented is very, VERY austere and can, in the long run, cause major problems.

While PoN fortunately does not simulate unemployment and its social effects, you do need certain goods to your population happy. This means that you will be forced to import not only expensive items such as luxury goods, wines and gold, but also basic stuff such as fruit, coffee, tea, sugar, etc, etc. This becomes all the more apparent as consumption by your population increases with certain technologies (each increasing consumption by 20% and with several of them, you can quickly double on what you need each month).

As such, my proposals are good to get your economy under control and to maximize private capital accumulation, but they are not the start all, end all of economic policies in PoN. As I said, the game requires both a lot and little micro-management at the same time.

Just saw this on facebook, thought it relevant:

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With two Slovenians on the team, such jokes are bound to go down badly (having lost a third of our people to the Italians and having been among the first victims of fascism).

A nice enough polandball (and funny), however it wasn't the Entente that reneged on the London Treaty, it was the Italians who took what they wanted and had to be stopped by the French and British before they took even more (we still got them at Kobarid, though).

No offense intended, although to be fair I'm British, if I'm not offending someone then I'm probably invading them. :03:

The only time a bad joke about Italians is going to go badly is with Italians present. For us they are the bad joke and only offensive when one of them is present.
A limey/jerry/yenki making jokes is OK

@Oberon

No offence taken :) I just wanted to point it out, as the majority of the Western world seems to have collective amnesia as to what Italians did in the interwar and war periods.

@Betonov

I could not have put it better myself.

I could, but that would be breaking forum rules.

Slovenes are in my opinion hard people to offend. Anger yes, we might be a little more jumpy but not really long term offended.
Even with Italians, we are not that much bitter from WW2, it's their arrogant attitude, abhorent driving, uncivilised shouting and total mockery of cuisine that offends us today. They don't tip and pillage Slovene forests for mushrooms every autumn.
We forgave the Germans, Italians simply remind us every time why we used to hate them.

Personally, I blame the French. :yep:

Sacre bleu

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I blame the Germans.:hmph:

I blame the Ottoman Empire.

http://i.imgur.com/7SzS0Me.jpg?1

:hmmm:

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Speaking of Reagonom...errr...Economics...

Is there any way to find out what the global supply and demand situation is like other than the monthly price variables? For example, I, as Britain, have access to a few mineral sites which I would like to develop but I want to know how well these minerals will sell on the international market and whether it's worth the expense and time to make the mines to export the minerals. :hmmm:

You've got to speculate. :)

Also maybe the mineral itself may not be that profitable for the international market but the end product it'll be turned into by one of your factories might, so it may be worth the investment by a different route.

Gotcha both, still a bit of a pain in the arse that you can't see what the international market is doing and identify trends. :nope:

You can see the total amount of resources sold and total amount of resources requested in each trading region on the Assets Balance panel, which I think almost exactly amounts to hard numbers for supply and demand. That's probably the best way to figure out that sort of thing.

Or you can just go and burn down the mining operations of anyone who exports minerals leaving you the sole source of pyrite on the planet.

Task Force is cheating, he's built tanks/landships already! :nope: :O:

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