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Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 22:14:01 No.278219 View Reply Original Report

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All I want is Hearts of Iron with good naval invasion AI.

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Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 01:38:21 No.278465 Report

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>>278462
They also never enabled mulberry research/build feature like the allies used at normandy

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Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 07:14:05 No.278739 Report

Quoted By: >>280816 >>281732

>>278462
This.
>play literally any Axis country
>don't do Sea Lion
>6 gorillion dead anglos

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 08:42:18 No.280350 Report

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>>278453
>Goes bankrupt

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 17:05:34 No.280816 Report

Quoted By: >>281732

>>278739
>>278462
On the other hand, sometimes the AI doesn't even bother to invade even when they have naval superiority and you haven't garrisoned any ports.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:53:26 No.281732 Report

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>>278739
>>278462
>>280816
The worst is when you try to Sea Lion after like 1940 and there are 150 American infantry divisions on the island and you can't breakthrough shit.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2020 16:28:09 No.238982 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Vanilla HoI4 thread?

Are frontlines a meme?

>draw spearhead order for my tanks along a short front
>Instead of bumrushing to their destination they take the time to fight anything that happens to be near them
>frontline gets stretched for some godforsaken reason instead of trying to retain its original proportion, stretching my offensive thin
>Use field marshal frontline because I read somewhere that it's better than using individual general's frontlines in order to avoid the lines stretching
>They constantly relocate to the point that some are even using strategic redeployment

Is the whole system just fucked? Should I just skip frontlines and micro everything?

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 16:54:21 No.280800 Report

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>>280577
You can pick both.

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 18:25:54 No.280898 Report

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>>280577
Take both unless you're going oppose adolf.

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 18:26:27 No.280900 Report

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>>277330
Donate that shit to Bulgaria or something.

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 18:27:07 No.280902 Report

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>>269874
feedback

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:50:57 No.281723 Report

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I bumped the other two HoI4 threads so let's make it a hat trick.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 13:01:54 No.275507 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Can someone explain the appeal of this game to me? Are there any RP elements? It's on sale for 10 bucks at the moment, considering buying it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/394360/Hearts_of_Iron_IV/

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 01:23:19 No.281375 Report

Quoted By: >>281395 >>281719

>>280213
>>281361
After the peace with the Axis the world is dumb. Features include: the American Karelia, the Soviet Morocco and Spanish North Sakhalin islands (this is the only one I am guilty of). I immediately begin justifying for war against the Soviet Union with conquest of Morocco as the war goal, but I never get to use that goal since the Soviets start a war with Turkey (a member of Allies) before my justification finishes. Soviet holdings in Africa actually put up more resistance than any other part of the Soviet union. I experience the dumbest version of the eastern front yet: Spanish 10 width garrison infantry units very slowly march into mostly unguarded Soviet union. The world is only a little bit strange after this war, since democracies prefer to liberate countries into independent democracies that love to join the Allies.

The last act of the war is to defeat Japan. It is year 1945 and they have taken: all of SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand, British Raj and Hawaii. I suspect they met no resistance, although I paid no attention so I have no way to really know. My attempts to help with the various landings are always cut short by my allies landing enough troops to consume all the supplies, then sitting there instead of advancing to broaden the front line. By 1947 most of the territory up to the Philippines is retaken and I lose interest. The war is a forgone conclusion (Japan vs. the World is not winnable for an AI Japan) and there is nothing to look forward to, but the Allied AI very very slowly retaking territory. I quit, having received my annual vaccination against interest in playing HOI 4.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 01:47:04 No.281395 Report

Quoted By: >>281719

>>281361
>>281375
reading this makes me regret buying the game, even if it was only 10 bucks

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:43:32 No.281715 Report

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>>280909
Going to war is the brainlet doodweed option. Real high IQ gaymers stay out of it and just build up their economy and fleet before getting bored and restarting.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:44:48 No.281718 Report

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>>281030
>>281031
They removed some old ones because they were bugged and/or they're only saving major updates as rollbacks.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:49:11 No.281719 Report

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>>281361
>>281375
>>281395
This anon didn't even know Vichy France is neutral for a year or two after collapse. He could have manually declared on them, or built infrastructure to supply the allies, or just joined the Soviets and not worry about sharing supply.

But no, he beat his head against the wall and then blamed the game.

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Chess thread

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 08:25:59 No.280343 View Reply Original Report

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Make a move

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:01:29 No.281590 Report

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>>281574
GORGONZOLA!

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:23:36 No.281599 Report

Quoted By: >>281601

Should i upgrade the board to 4d?
(4th dimension being time, so make a gif with 3 frames)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:24:43 No.281601 Report

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>>281599
Next up, real time snow and rain when you make a move (like 5d cinemas)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:33:31 No.281705 Report

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>>281565
no the queen used to be the kings advisor, could only move one square in a diagonal direction

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:44:22 No.281717 Report

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>>280343
I will put my king inside my pocket. There it is safe.

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Mission/focus trees in gsg

Anonymous Thu 19 Nov 2020 05:17:45 No.268050 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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I hereby claim that mission trees (as well as “focus trees”, where the only focus is fooling the player) are a shit design decision, essentially a lazy approach to stimulating player doing things. I feel like introduction of mission trees to EU4 was devs admitting they will never be able to make proper gsg and its easier this way

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 00:27:45 No.281323 Report

Quoted By: >>281343

>>280962
They definitely need some way of introducing limited wars that don't involve half of Europe at war with one another.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 00:47:44 No.281343 Report

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>>281323
Yeah. I gave them a yell about it on their forums when talking about Trade Wars. They still haven't done anything for even that.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:23:05 No.281597 Report

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>>280817
>admitted
They want you to think that. They're just not competent enough to make a decent AI

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:31:32 No.281700 Report

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>>268050
I tend to agree, it railroads you down a specific path, and this is counter to the supposed sandboxy nature of these games.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:37:27 No.281709 Report

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>>280817
>refuse to make AI more challenging
>but lazily multiplying the HP and damage of end-game crisis factions by 25 is OK guys
They're simply incapable of improving the AI and are trying to hide it.

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Rule the Waves 2

Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 23:44:50 No.178615 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Anyone else here play this? Its one of the few games Ive paid full price for.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 06:41:48 No.277089 Report

Quoted By: >>277108

>>277027
>it looks like it's only SAM
So the guided bomb, early ASM, and reliable ASM techs still aren't enabled? It sounds like they relate to dive bombers

>On my last war in the fifties, postwar analysis concluded that over 70% of the planes were destroyed by SAM
So definitely worth the tonnage then if they're doing all the heavy lifting against aircraft. Conventional AA never seemed very good at stopping aircraft, but if SAMs are getting hits every launch then that's a big improvement.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Nov 2020 07:05:21 No.277108 Report

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>>277089
Not that anon, but guided bombs are a medium bomber thing, basically equivalent to the Fritz X. I know that for sure from doing my reading. Lets them get accurate, dive bomber like hits in spite of level bombing. I don't know about the other anti-ship missile techs.

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 03:32:34 No.280166 Report

Quoted By: >>280225

Hit page 10, this is dangerous territory. Post limit 500, right? Post ships. Light cruisers, let's say.

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Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 04:59:44 No.280225 Report

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>>280166
late game light cruiser

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:33:44 No.281706 Report

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>>192379
Reminds me of those 90's shareware games where you had to send cash in mail and then reiceive the activation code in return.

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the X spacesim series thread

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:00:27 No.281587 View Reply Original Report

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Does X count as a /vst/ game? Whatever, lets talk about it
Whats your favorite game in the series?
Do feel like x4 redeems the series from rebirth?
Do you preffer the personal, story driven spirit of x2? Or do you prefer the "average joe" sandbox feel of tc/ap?

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 07:26:08 No.281641 Report

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>Whats your favorite game in the series?
X2, but I have more hours in X3:TC. I like the volumetric nebula effects, Kha'ak being scary and the slower combat with less focus on high alpha weapons. It's also more satisfying to have to buy transports to go between your own factories instead of just slapping down an 80-station complex connected by tubes. I also prefer most of the ship designs, especially the Argon ones. If it had the different sorting features in the property menu from X3 I would probably play it a lot longer. It becomes really tedious to manage otherwise.
>Do feel like x4 redeems the series from rebirth?
Haven't played either of them. I saw the shitshow that was the Egosoft forums after Rebirth came out and steered clear. X4 looks like they're trying to do a 180 and get back to what people actually like about the series, but it still looks like it's filled with pointless micromanagement with things like crew for trade ships, and walkable station interiors is still as much of a turnoff as it was when Rebirth did it.
>Do you preffer the personal, story driven spirit of x2? Or do you prefer the "average joe" sandbox feel of tc/ap?
I think X2 has the more compelling story, and it also scales a lot harder than TC's main plot. The final battle against the Khaak M0 is legitimately stressful even if you're in a juiced up M6 like an Osprey or something. The later games are a lot more afraid of putting you up against powerful enemies in plots and expecting you to win. Even in something like Balance of Power the enemy spam is more about making you run away, and in the final battle of X3: Reunion you can just hug a friendly Odin while it mops up all the khaak.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:32:58 No.281704 Report

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>>281641
>it's filled with pointless micromanagement with things like crew for trade ships
The fact that you need a 3 star pilot to autotrade is annoying because how random slow the pilote gain experience, same thing for minor if you want them to sell mineral in an other sector.
But manual trading his helped by the filter system that help a lot, specially considering the fact that I currently flooding split economy with ship component so they can built ship and fight back the Xenon that are currently conquering their sector and wrecking their shit (faction can conquer sector).

But overall it's closer to X3 but I would appreciate more weapon variety for capital ship and a revamp of non-split ship because split military ship are insane compared to other faction.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 01:51:32 No.281404 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>281491 >>281520 >>281660

What should I do?

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:00:22 No.281491 Report

Quoted By: >>281498

>>281404
I'd say yes. It kinda depends on your current situation too tho. Would gaining meritocracy but losing gov be worth or would the opposite be more worth to you in your current situation.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:10:49 No.281498 Report

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>>281491
Neither really matters. I'm actually concerned about >>281439 as well as how bad the relations hit is. I should have mentioned me and the other empire have insanely good relation and pacts with each other. I don't want to piss off my BFF, but I don't want any weird problems either.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 04:55:46 No.281520 Report

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>>281404
Always accept. Population is everything.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 07:41:02 No.281660 Report

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>>281404
+10 gov and -4 mer? Shit, I'd be slamming that "No" button

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:18:23 No.281687 Report

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>great artists and scholars

im fucking plying

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Anonymous Mon 23 Nov 2020 12:24:54 No.275445 View Reply Original Report

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How is this? What are some other worthwhile Tiberian Sun mods?

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Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 21:00:21 No.279691 Report

Quoted By: >>279708

guess TS mods aren't very popular

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 21:07:22 No.279708 Report

Quoted By: >>281685

>>279691
Honestly, TS gameplay just isn't that good. It's so much slower than RA2 even though the only strategies are either titanspam or subterranean apc if the enemy is an idiot. Lots of units are underpowered if not useless.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:02:16 No.281678 Report

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>>275842
not sure what that image conveys. Its abs banger. Reaper raid, Still Alone, Arming To Win, Armor and Speed, Advance, Nod Crush Remix, Eidolon, Tibby & Noddy, Prodigal Son.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:10:09 No.281681 Report

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>>275855
I wish there was a mod that switches the vanilla sprites and sounds with the Twisted Insurrection ones, so I can use them in vanilla campaigns. Those buildings look sick.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:13:52 No.281685 Report

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>>279708
Yeah, TS gameplay doesn't really flow all that well and a lot of units have very situational use, especially on the Nod side.

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Victoria II HPM\mods thread

Anonymous Wed 18 Nov 2020 00:04:37 No.266245 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Anons, what are your opinion on HPM?
I have played it as Russia and honestly didn't see any difference, except it probably took me a tab bit longer to make Prussia *smaller*
So what do you think?
What are other good Vicky 2 mods that are not about alternative history?

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:00:38 No.281588 Report

Quoted By: >>281594

>>281579
Would they assimilate into American culture? Don't know if they can unlike Europeans/Asians

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:11:42 No.281594 Report

Quoted By: >>281608 >>281629

>>281588
accepted cultures do not assimilate to the primary, or any other, culture.
If they are non-accepted, then they will assimilate unless:
1) the are in a province that is a core of a country that they are an accepted culture in (for instance, Irish pops in Dublin owned by the UK will not assimilate, but Irish pops in London (not an Irish core), might).
2) They are not affected by the african diaspora modifier. I don't know if this was in vanilla or added by one of the popular mods, but there is a -80 assimilation modifier to african diaspora cultures in north america, that is activated if a country does not have some other modifier like "African acceptance law" or whatever to disable it. Specifically to prevent african Americans from just becoming Yankee, or Afro-Brazilians from becoming just Brazilian, et cetera.
In pic related you can see the section of poptypes.txt (in common) in HFM that prevents afro diaspora cultures from assimilating
-80, more than enough to prevent all assimilation, unless the country has the modifier "african assimilation policy"

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:35:31 No.281608 Report

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>>281594
Hmm guess I would need to use that event that you made

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 07:02:39 No.281629 Report

Quoted By: >>281679

>>281594
One more question, when I build a factory should I keep expanding it or no?

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 08:04:15 No.281679 Report

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>>281629
Expand it if it's making money and it's near the worker cap
Often, capitalists will do this automatically but not always. When you have cash it's a good idea to look through the industry screen and upgrade factories near their capacity, especially as you get a feel for the game and know what goods you need

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