Sphere of Influence makes Imperialism look pretty cool (in Victoria 3)

[@guyfromcollege]

Buy Sphere of Influence here if you like exploiting underdeveloped nations for their resources or you want to support the channel: paradoxinteractive.i38e.net/college

[@RedBaronFlyer]

why not both?

[@sveinhongset4725]

historical?? (idk when but the danish have aculy won agenst prussia in an war tecnicly) :)

[@Ragatokk]

Your link is cool and all, but I could just save myself the trouble and buy it on steam for the same price.

[@Henners1991]

>Asked to make a video on the diplomacy/foreign investment expansion >Picks a war nation and spends the whole game fighting

[@Screamingurchin]

I guess there’s no better way to expand your sphere of influence than invading and dismantling all your neighbors

[@ShladTheTonkLover]

Someone has to carry the big stick.

[@dulguunjargal1199]

Bro playing HOI4 in Victoria 3

[@bobbilly7499]

Well according to Clausewitz (someone from Prussia) war is just another form of diplomacy.

[@Samuel-p17]

Clausewitz said War is the continuation of politics with other means

[@lyra5366]

"Hungary can't be that bad guys" spoken like someone that has never been to hungary

[@sanyesz35663]

So true (I hate it here)

[@MountainSoftware1984]

Finally a vic3 episode. Been waiting for this since the Vietnam war.

[@mibson52]

Wait, Frank, is that you? I'm Mark, do you remember me?

[@fluivanny]

@@mibson52 mark? is that you its me jodie i was just warming the house for you welcome back.

[@denofgames2072]

​@@fluivannywait Jodie is that you it's me Ben I've been looking for you after the war😢

[@TheSkyGuy77]

I've been waiting since the Franco-Prussian War 😂

[@KaiserMateo115]

@@denofgames2072 Ben? its me donnie. i tought you died on a nursing home

[@corruptg5914]

14:04 THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT MANY NATIONS DID DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA AND EVEN TODAY. Honestly its hilarious that Paradox Games manage to replicate history one to one

[@neonge3877]

cia be like:

[@typicaluser697]

​@@neonge3877 and it was successful, once...

[@megabotvideos]

tahiti starts as a vassal of france fyi

[@chozer1]

Does this trolley go to tahiti?!

[@Albania4life535]

​@@chozer1 Van der linde van der linde im always by your side

[@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.I]

@@Albania4life535Poker Plans (We’ve Got a plan Arthur)

[@TheArrow842]

Not gonna lie that red dead 2 joke almost made me choke on my food, that was pretty funny. keep up the good work

[@liamqueally9074]

I was eating cereal and nearly choked on it

[@armandelven-dechoux5290]

10:25 Honestly for the European Union, the thing with German migration is more realistic than not

[@erikb6124]

honestly glad your channel is popping off like this college. its a different angle on pdx games and always nice to listen to.

[@sirllamaiii9708]

Much better than just live commentary battle montages and screaming lol

[@franzferdinand7166]

There was almost as many Icelanders living in the Suez as there was Icelanders living in Iceland 😂

[@andaman4755]

"Listen my leader, I have a plan. We have to form power bloc with Tahiti. What you don't trust me? HAVE A GOD DAMN FAITH LEADER!" - French diplomat in 19th century probably

[@TheREPPIX]

Proceeds to start the 2,874,865th French Revolution

[@chattiermike140]

Bro turned Eastern Europe into absolute war-torn hell to spite the Austrians lol

[@fraginatrix]

Every single victoria 3 play through on every KZbin channel: "but for some reason, nothing worked like it should" XD

[@adam13magic63]

Hey it's that guy from Bokoen1's "Hoi4 MP in a nutshell" collage you are always entertaining hope you are having a good one!

[@Aleph3575]

0:40 Nice to see they went with the historical name of the Prussian customs union.

[@schalitz1]

I got the money, and now I have a mango farm in Tahiti. 10/10 would recommend.

[@TheREPPIX]

One thing I really like about the update is it's surprisingly easy to take the landowners power away (at least for Prussia)

[@duphasdan]

Even before this DLC and the immigration bug, I've had playthroughs with odd immigrations. I once played an America playthrough where North Dakota was 90 percent Bedouin, and a Minnesota with a third of the people from China. I also had a Macao playthrough where I kept getting people from all over the world to stuff themselves into the city. I ended up with so many people that i was second in the world in population by the 1880s. And since I was part of the Austrian economic sphere, I needed only to make factories, which I couldn't build fast enough. The snowballing stwrted during the civil war in China thst had people flooding in from both sides.

[@XRakxXRaknasan]

Tahiti- Dutch Van Der Linde… is in Vicky 3 now

[@Thewrongolive]

- prussia nearing bankruptcy and on the verge of a civil war in 1850s This was foreshadowing all along

[@maintiax]

lmfao

[@thenationalist6468]

Sam Hyde jumpscare at 13:39

[@ferretman6790]

Klaus Schwab thumbnail 💀 “you will play the map game and you will be happy” 💀

[@torrent6181]

I love the narrative focused commentary and editing. Subscribed!!

[@Gwanzan3325]

1:57 I HAVE A PLAN, PIERRE!

[@isabellacosio3054]

2 videos in 4 days??? We’re so back

[@TheRavenLord1]

This was the only outcome to help bring peace to Europe. Which was Germany taking the helm of the continent.

[@eson1654]

At the cost of turning the smaller European countries into desolate brain drain hellholes... The price of Imperialism

[@sanestamerican4118]

You WILL eat ze bugs

[@djr_93276]

12:35 you should submit this idea/input to the devs. I'd be surprised if someone can't make a mod for this too

[@Lucasal1296]

Love that even in sponsored videos, content creators dont hold back from trash talking the game

[@flopus7]

Exciting to see you setting up Germany for kaiserreich in a few years

[@w3wl4d]

Hell yeah would love to see more vic3 vids!!

[@theicelandicnationalist2.023]

Icelando-Belorussian suez is so extremely cursed…

[@AshkanNurizade]

The American Experience in HOI4's Most Realistic Mod When ?

[@wceend5791]

Cant wait for the vic3 community game 😊

[@Samuel-p17]

Finally a Vic 3 video again. I almost forgot why i subscribed to you.

[@toonistiny]

5:13: OW MY LUNGS! 🤣 (i laughed too hard at this clip)

[@bruh5912]

The handsome man releases another video. Thank you handsome man that can micro the side of the barn.

[@ChristianBerthiaume]

Is that background music from the Tropico series? 😂 I guess that's some perspective about his leadership philosophy...lol

[@headcrabn5347]

The Icelanders got sick of the cold. The ones that couldn’t hack it got replaced by Danes.

[@arepupu]

Dude, I love your videos. They always make me laugh so much lol

[@Frenchofficerlsoldbat]

We don't have to wait 2 weeks for another video, W.

[@KedAR_48]

Great editing as always! Also, how do you rate the performance after the update? I'm yet to play and was hoping for some optimalization.

[@denofgames2072]

I love the editing in your videos 😂

[@unrealix7x7unrealix79]

This is a second video on the european union in victoria 3 I'm seeing with this dlc preview

[@SuperNintendawg]

If you want to make more Victoria videos, I highly recommend playing as a smaller nation and building it up. Those have been the most fun for me by far.

[@Njordin2010]

Which ones do you recommend?

[@max__pain]

​@@Njordin2010Gran Colombia is good fun, build yourself up then expand into Venezuela, Central America, Ecuador etc.

[@SuperNintendawg]

@@Njordin2010 haven't tried the DLC but aside from Colombia I've also enjoyed Sokoto, Dai Nam, Persia, Egypt, and more.

[@aidanlutz8106]

Greece failing in the EU in Vic3 shows that it’s canon

[@Squarebob_SpongePants]

Oh great GuyFromCollege, could you please play the new Kalterkrieg mod that's coming out on July 2nd? It's a continuation of the Kaiserreich timeline where Germany and the Entente won. It's a cold war between the two factions plus other content and I'd love to see you showcase it.

[@guyfromcollege]

First I'm hearing of it, sounds pretty interesting tho

[@Squarebob_SpongePants]

@@guyfromcollege oh wow you actually responded, that's a bit surprising. But check out the subreddit, it's r/KRGmod, there should be a synopsis there that will give you the basic rundown

[@majormaxwell9534]

Great video, I appreciate the vic 3 content :) SoI went a long way to making the game actually fun lol

[@RubberToeYT]

Always appreciate an always sunny meme

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

Even though there’s still a lot missing, this is still a really great update

[@FeZe1997]

I can't believe I have been watching you for 10 years without being subscribed🙁

[@faresalsayed9005]

He’s been making videos for only a year

[@manooxi327]

great vid, the me-mes are always a +

[@RIHItex]

Great game. The DLC really looks interesting.

[@cillianbrien1470]

Thank you for the video, good sir

[@lonely_88]

Finalmente, alguem que fez uma piada com red dead, OBRIGADO 👍👍👍👍

[@Mashkator]

Another banger droped!

[@AloneComes]

love the energy you bring to each video, it's contagious! ⚡

[@SealChonker]

Swimmy bouta have a blast.

[@terrified057t4]

Life imitates art.

[@ryorai5804]

Harvesting mangoes in tahiti...

[@makiskanyt9269]

Bro dutch about to invade the us Edit : i just remembered how rdr ends and that is not the theme dutch would want to hear

[@scottgrey3337]

Even after a brand new expansion, all Victoria 3 does is make me want to play Vicky 2 again.

[@andrasfogarasi5014]

Enjoy microing the influence mechanic. Sphering is an important part of that Victoria 2, after all. It's what allows goods to be sold once and bought multiple times, which is a totally intended mechanic designed by PDX's great minds in 2010. Foreign investment? Yeah, Victoria 2 has foreign investment. The only reason it makes sense to engage with it though is that country treasuries are practically bottomless after a couple decades due to governments having nothing to spend it on. Who wants to worry about money in an economy simulation game? I just want to click the construct button in every state 8 times. Whoops, I've accidentally caused a global concrete shortage that will last until the end of the game. Silly me. 100% realistic simulation.

[@scottgrey3337]

@@andrasfogarasi5014 You seem to be shadowboxing with someone completely different on the internet. I brought up no argument besides that I've played Vicky 2 before and likely will again, and that having watched the current state of Vicky 3, both within the expansion and beyond, I don't feel interested in getting the game. So yes, I will enjoy playing Vicky 2 again.

[@coolmanyea5030]

@@andrasfogarasi5014How did this comment make you so mad lol

[@oc8636]

Same, but i also still cant get over how Ugly the map overview is in Vic 3

[@wejtusek]

Cool, Paraguay playthrough when?

[@XXLPIakat]

They didn't fix the Migration on release, you still get an insane amount of migration attraction. HRE with a province that has +600% attraction.

[@mab7727]

"Half the Icelandic population decided to live in Egypt" Well, I wonder why!

[@rubenmatas4551]

MAN I LOVE IMPERIALISM (In games)

[@redwalrus6796]

Dang College that debt from fighting Denmark and stuff is looking pretty crazy. I bet you sure learned from this and never bankrupted yourself as Prussia ever again because that would be very embarrassing if you did so.

[@oxjmanxo]

Double check civil wars and see if the rebels will accept vassalization in exchange for help. I managed to nab both Egypt and Persia this way for 0 infamy.

[@peter_de_Jong817]

Nice, finally a basic Vic2 function behind a paywall...

[@ascendedtree5876]

Power blocs are free, but some of the customisation options are in the dlc

[@Nevergiveup-z1g]

foreign investment is free

[@andrasfogarasi5014]

No, I'm pretty sure 1.7 is a step away from Victoria 2. In Victoria 2, capitalists were tied to live in the same state as their factories, just like in previous versions of Victoria 3. But now with 1.7, we have capitalists owning industries remotely, which allows for a much superior imperialism experience, as the profits of an economic empire flow back into overlord's country. This also allows us to use foreign investment as a tool of exploitation instead of what it was in Victoria 2, which was what again? Oh right. The abuse of an exploit. The usefulness of the sphere market system in Victoria 2 relies entirely on the exploit that it causes goods within it to become buyable multiple times. What a wonderful game that is currently in a perfectly balanced and bug-free state. Also, on the topic of spheres. Has anyone ever managed to sphere more than a few minor nations through the influence mechanic? No, they have not, because the influence system is incredibly micro-intensive. It is also unfun, because the AI is leagues better than humans at said micro. As I said, Victoria 2 is a wonderful game. Total failure on PDX's part that Victoria 3 has failed to live up to it.

[@Samuel-p17]

Don't you guys get bored from writing this? Get ready for EU5, you'll probably have to write comments like this till Hoi5 comes out.

[@Nevergiveup-z1g]

@@Samuel-p17 Maybe Stellaris 2 is gonna come out sooner than Hoi5?

[@tackydock990]

9:40 111k dead to 4K dead is crazy but ig a win is a win

[@guyfromcollege]

tbf that is almost all to France

[@Arkiiop]

Tahiti? *Intense Dutch music*

[@Idontknowwhattocallmyself]

you had to clarify (in Victoria 3)

[@Tyanus2]

10:17 I have seen it on other channels too

[@QasqaZhol]

You should have enacted national militia after leadership play. Because with national militia you did not had to pay army and could conscript tonns of soldiers.

[@hotterotter1367]

Dude please make more Vic3 videos, there is so much shit to be done in this game 😅 And craz hard achivements aswell

[@thepowerofsand6180]

European frmers constantly complaining and obstructing politics? Where have I heard that one before?

[@emilepierre1663]

Bro the video clips😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrDjgalas]

I am from the batlics and I can tell you that that is not the bug. It is real life simulation, most of people from here leave to Germany for a better life xD

[@mockingbird7144]

Ok so what are the chances that when I also booted up the game. France also went through a civil war and also had Tahiti in its power block

[@nathanbean8763]

Foreign investment? It takes multiple DLCs for them to add a feature which was already in the former game and should have been in Vic3 from launch? I really want this game to do better. Even though I don't think the military side of it will ever be as good as if they kept micro in, the economic side of it could at least be better. At this rate however, I anticipate at least another year before it's actually a decent bit better than vic2. My disappointment is immeasurable.

[@Nostr00]

When are you going to sponsor me?

[@ratisgood4448]

bictora tree

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

Bro just annex Austria and Slovenia! The border gore, man!!!

[@Lady_Rhea]

What was that meme at 13:40

[@QasqaZhol]

Also if you export a lot of goods purposefully into neighbouring(neighboring countries are best because you dont need convoys for trade), their workers are very likely to start a civil war. I once managed to make a russian protectorate(I did the same as you forcing him to liberate a lot of nations to stop it being great power) as supergermany because I rushed for quick fertilizer techs and begun to massproduce grain and export it to the backwards countries with strong aristocrats. I even held on to subsidising my farmers so they could kept producing grain constantly, and at one point I have been producing double the amount of gain the Qing could. The cost of the grain in backwards countries were at lowest it could be due to my subsidised imports into them, making their farmers poor and radical. And due to their landowners having +20% political power their aristocratic/peasant revolts were so massive that almost any backwards country I had imported grains on completely accepted to become my protectorate if I save them. My guide is to tech up to advanced fertilisers, farm up your provinces and massproduce grain. Then start to improve relations with backwards countries and export to them your cheap grain. Next step is to wait for a civil war and offer your help in exchange for protectorance. Then enjoy peaceful expansion with below 50 infamy.

[@hydronpowers9014]

Totally average day in the EU

[@Dinga_Linga_]

I think the French had a plan. Maybe Dutch was right about Tahiti.

[@gnometruther5551]

YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS.... JUM JUM ADRENOCHROME SO GOOD

[@alb-mk2mt]

Why is Portugal red?

[@kingblackjack7075]

Bro is playing Kaiserriech historical I guess

[@DaBadMoonIsRisin]

FINALLYYYY

[@darkmacintosh]

Greece not doing well in the EU, where have I seen that before…

[@kostka001]

Nice

[@atsuki00]

Name song pls

[@LakeGameCreepr]

I think the reason you always had money problems was cus you didn't build you industry enough

[@StanislavHronek]

Thanks for the video, its good to know the game is not really playable yet. Wonder how many years will it take

[@Tan-pp2bu]

no way that santa klaus appears in the thumbnail

[@afridge8608]

German empire faction named european union instead of kaiserreich. Larpers seethe

[@benisign]

Be fr does anyone even like vic 3 or are they just sick of playing hoi or vic 2

[@shader1xderp778]

colonialism!