Victoria 3 Economic Guide using JAPAN - Victoria 3 1.7.5 Economics Guide & Meiji Restoration

[@immotion665]

Bro did Japan RP so hard he even got their stagnation and labour problems

[@thrasherthrash8987]

Unironically what makes Victoria 3 so special - you run into historical problems if you’re not careful. Satisfying in a “justify imperialism” sort of way 💀

[@MDFification1]

>No corn laws! >Looks inside >Corn laws

[@WladylawGomulka]

Same with war and cheese lol

[@Tarkusarkusar]

well, you can't avoid corn laws as Japan once you get off serfdom, which I said in the video. The point of it is that we reformed our economy without needing to rely on corn laws, like so many strats tend to do for most guides. (but yeah it is some fake news OMEGALUL)

[@CountCristo]

@@Tarkusarkusar don’t corn laws require export focus to be set? Or is that different on isolationism?

[@calatis5087]

​@@CountCristoyou need export focus or isolationism

[@CountCristo]

@@calatis5087 thanks

[@hedonyable]

The pace you speak at in this video, and the way you articulate yourself, is like an ear orgasm. It is perfect for how I prefer it

[@evil-toaster8522]

Second this, the voice is great!

[@caprera]

eargasm

[@jetex1911]

I prefer the previous speed, but I can also just go 1.25 and we're back. Everybody wins.

[@ssmith5048]

dude....

[@merc6trey919]

didn't expect to see you here hed i watch tarkusarkusar as well

[@apollothefirst]

Finally, I may find a solution to my bad gameplay

[@samthegoat05]

😂 same here bro

[@Iron-Clad]

Real

[@afatcatfromsweden]

Subtitles are really appreciated btw! :3

[@Ihavpickle]

Yeah it's very nice

[@LukasB-j4q]

Nice video! As a note on privatization, landowners can purchase and fund construction of resource buildings (i.e mines & lumbermills), so you should only prioritize manufacturing industries which landowners are prohibited from purchasing to avoid inadvertently empowering the landowners with the construction resources.

[@Schmitt-]

You are like the one vic3 youtuber i always look forward to uploads from. Others I either have to sit through 10 hours of videos per campaign or are 10-minutes and rarely explain much, you strike the perfect balance.

[@Florin_Dark]

One is Ludi, the other is Carpathian Knight

[@espi4ka752]

​@@Florin_DarkI'm the other one hehe 😊😮

[@sibbuiland9859]

your voice one of my favorites so having subtitles is a lot better then going too slow imo

[@Rabusto545]

Usually only watch Generalist Gaming when it comes to Vic 3 but I really like this video which is the first one i've seen from you, will definately watch more and i love the fact that you give props to other streamers which you learned from!

[@Tarkusarkusar]

You've made a wise choice watching Generalist. He's definitely better at the game than me lol. That being said, I like to think I bring value with my scripted content, compared to his live recorded content.

[@danchaplin2911]

@@Tarkusarkusar Scripted content is miles better dude. Generalist is great but is the titular spreadsheet 'artistic' rambler. This is the first video I have found that succinctly and fluently explains the game without needlessly confusing the audience. Generalist is good and has his place but you do to.

[@lightmarkal273]

@@danchaplin2911 This. I too watch generalist but he's very, VERY hard to follow and he's so immersed in the technicalities that he's not a good teacher for a beginner. He truly is the spreadsheet master tho

[@kylord20001]

Thank you for making the effort to talk slower for us, it is noticeable

[@mango3638]

Found your channel a few weeks back, just as i started getting back into Vicky 3 and i love your videos. While i cant speak for everyone, i preferred your faster way of speaking in the super germany video, but thats probably cos i have adhd. Keep on making videos, it's great seeing vicky 3 educational stuff because the only big paradox channel that really does vicky 3 is bo and his crew, but those vids are mostly for humour and interactions between them.

[@Slmj-hu4dm]

After having immensly trouble with my economy, time and time again, after watching countless of video guides, you are the first one that told me to make sure to manually sell buildings to the private sector. Thank you so much!!!!! This fixed everything. Cheers

[@Tanksause]

the way you speak is good. Im an outlier, i watch all my stuff at 2.8x speed and its still fine. Appreciate the content! :D

[@prussia7423]

I have over 3000 hours combined on Stellaris and HOI4 and Vic 3 is still kinda confusing to me especially when playing low tech countries such as Japan. Every other guide is corn law cheese or Qing war rep cheese or delete your whole army except in your capital so you can crush the landowner revolt cheese so I love this guide. Keep it up!

[@TelperionMt]

I'm just getting into Vicky 3 with 40 hours in the game, so this level of step A, B, C, D plus explanation of why are we taking these steps --> is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into these guides.

[@tacobear1]

I'm new to the game, these guides are really helpful for me! Your voice's pacing is great and the subtitles are much appreciated. The only confusing thing is that sometimes the things you show on screen don't add up with what you're saying.

[@Kendallizer100]

THANK YOU, I can't for the life of me get Japan to work out in my games. I just got Vic 3 and have 30+ hours in it, only as Shogunate Japan (idiot hyperfixation), and I'm super thankful for this guide!

[@emilepierre1663]

The pace is perfect!! So is the guide thank you😃

[@rexpontiff1001]

Very nice video. Easy to understand. Never seen your other videos, but this pace of speech is quite nice!

[@hamhamson7740]

Closed captions very good thanks

[@someone_5967]

Personally I think you‘re video‘s are pretty easy to understand, I was watching them at 150% playback speed before, but now I might turn it up to 175%. I do this with basically all the video‘s I watch including other paradox youtubers and while I admit you were comparatively faster than most of them I could still understand you wuite well (Englisch ist übrigens auch nicht meine Muttersprache)

[@IronTiger22]

Can’t wait to watch the video in its entirety and continue to cripple myself by keeping the Shogunate

[@therealestsnake]

I have the same issue with my talking speed. It's so amazing what you did in this video.

[@karablak-je6ed]

I can confirm, you do talk fast. You are one of a very few people I only watch at 1.75 speed, rather than x2. (And often wishing there was a x3 or x4 speed available)😁

[@caprera]

And I was like: "Finally someone talking at a reasonable speed" ))))

[@greg7096]

Love the Generalist Gaming name drop, really informative videos, if a bit dry

[@MrUrgnot]

Thanks for making the video man I learned a lot from this video!

[@Javx97]

Subbed, super informative video, I was always wondering why was I always struggling with growing gdp and such, I wasn't building from the ground up, thank you!

[@tutugry3105]

generalist gaming mentioned also i was watching the video at 2X and i still could perfectly understand you, and english is not my first language

[@connorvic3]

He did talk pretty slowly this time

[@Speed_Walker]

This is exactly what I needed :)

[@tpalmer4757]

I followed Toby's guide to get korea from game start and your economic guide and got a 1 bil gdp power block with most of SE asia and somw of china! Great video

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Glad it helped! And I'm glad you have the good taste to watch Toby as well. He is also a GIGACHAD

[@ssmith5048]

for what it's worth, i am speeding up the video to get your speech faster. nice guide as well!

[@Therationalnationalist]

Speed of elocution is immaculate.

[@zenmastakilla]

Damn, this guide is a masterpiece.

[@misterperson3469]

I reckon you can go a bit faster when dealing with simpler concepts or introductions but its good at this pace for more information dense segments.

[@redtapecollection3363]

I also like to put the assimilation edoct on the colonized islands. In a few years since the game start the discriminated pops will be around 10%. Also, enacting State Religion and Religious Schools from the start also helps with those pops becoming state religion. This helps overall to have very low number of discriminated pops, thus increasing loyalist and less revolutions and tpns of Authority to play with.

[@jichaoyang2767]

just adding to the comments, the pacing and speed of speech is spot on!!

[@davidstocker2278]

This pace is perfect

[@Mrwhoisdreks]

I personally love the idea of a French Japanese alliance. Two hegemonies over two continents the fleet of Japan and the armèe of France in forcing their will over the lesser states of their continents. A interesting world indeed

[@weabootrash5891]

Damn good video, I must say. I always rush the honorable restoration early via civil war in the first few years then focus on economy afterwards. The explanation on economy was great to see, and I enjoyed learning what I did, thanks for this! Also is it just me or does the UK become Great Britain in almost every game recently? It's kinda weird to see them become an absolute monarchy so often now

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Yeah I've noticed them going the way of absolutism pretty often and I'm not entirely sure why. I've also been seeing Victoria get deposed really often and idek how that happens lol. I'll have to try a UK game sometime to figure out what's up with them.

[@dewfan14]

lmao that powerblock the us made "Pact of Pearl Harbor" i love the ai

[@gageisanidiot5837]

I found it funny that people say you talk too fast because I always have your videos on 1.5 so I can hear you talk faster

[@the1egaard]

How do you maintain the budget so you dont run out of money by 1840? i have tried to mimic this, but i always run out of money by that time

[@danielgarcia5131]

Esta chévere papi tu canal, se agradece que hable un poco más despacio para poder habilitar la a traducción al español ❤

[@TheToastieCakes]

A note on your point at 12:00 ish, you might consider holding off on privatizing RGO industries (wood, iron etc.) until a few of your factories have been purchased. Manor houses cannot buy factories, but they can buy RGOs, which is a problem as unrecognized countries like Japan that start with practically zero capitalists. By starting with factory privatization you can prompt shopkeepers to promote to captalists, which gives your capitalists a baseline of investment pool so that when you do privatize the RGOs (say around early-mid 1840's) they get bought by a mix of financial districts and manor houses, rather than JUST manor houses which you may well see if you privatize earlier. Oh, and long time viewer, never thought you talked too fast before but this does flow better.

[@FantasticKruH]

So you can actually strengthen landowners if you do it inccorectly?

[@unfairlive2]

@@FantasticKruH This is correct. If landowners own a lot of wealth (which they do at the start) then by letting them buy the RGO they'll have more wealth. Wealth equals power in this game. That said, landowners can also change into capitalists, so it's not a game ending error.

[@hipha5463]

Also, abdicate cheese is pretty much op for countries like Japan. Helps to snowball in MP games

[@benzelmer8111]

As Japan you're able to force a revolution in 1953, get Meji as a heir, abdicate to a revolution, and have an Industrialist Autocracy for most of the game. As someone else pointed out, until you get privatized agriculture, Manor-houses will be the main buyer of rural buildings.

[@benzelmer8111]

Unrelated but I hate homesteading with a burning passion. You're so happy to get rid of the aristocrats but suddenly your entire country is closed down.

[@JohnPGarrett]

I recently completed my own Japan Achievement run and MAN do I feel like I underperformed now. I only managed about 100M GDP by the end of the game and had horrible SOL. But I learned a ton from this video and I'm definitely looking forward to taking some of these tricks into future campaigns. I do think you dodged a bullet by taking Tenet Farmers instead of Homesteading early on though. Homesteading is great at weakening the Landowners, true, but it is also REALLY aggressive about empowering the Rural Folk, which is can end up dominating Japanese Politics and locking you out of a ton of good laws, at least they did in my run.

[@gregmackay5821]

Very good content. With all of the new content the old guides are out of date.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

27:54 it would be really cool if there was a late game journal entry to set up a national grid making electricity a Market good rather than a local one

[@MrYogidoo]

How about joining a few wars against slavery and demanding treaty-ports, that would make your trade better and could make re-export a viable strategy?

[@kandrenai]

I watch your videos at 2x speed. You talk fine for me

[@DieStruppie]

I really tried following this, but I never get into a positive budget to build up reserves for when I get to the switch to iron construction. Is there something I'm missing?

[@anastasios8252]

I am not native English speaker but I can understand every word of your speech.

[@siberiankarl451]

Came for an eco guide, found a fellow Furi enjoyer

[@name-os8kl]

Great video! I was thinking: can you make a simmilar video but for Economic Dominance as Brazil 🇧🇷? Great video again! I learned a lot! Thanks!

[@OddReal]

id love more guide videos especially going in depth on economy and getting rich without having to annex 80% of the world.

[@mattbowdenuh]

Is that the Satisfactory music in the background? very similar if not.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

the full music list is in the description :)

[@98Chriskck]

Can you do venezuela guide?

[@troelsdc]

What about rubber? Are those african colonies yuou took from Portugal and the madagascar ones enough for the lategame economy?

[@linkhidalgogato]

idk if great britain really did just have a lucky run they have been wild in every run i have done in the latest patch i have seen them just conquering a bunch of stuff outright in the early game and snow balling from there plus it seems the eic actually expands now and their gdp goes nuts giving even more money to britain

[@j.p.l1237]

I’d love to see a capitalist, Layfair Cuba run. You got a good speaking voice .👍

[@Armcode]

One comment from someone that also talks to fast is to on purpose put space between your words (though typically this requires active thought). The problem is more so space between words than actual speed (zero space between words makes it very hard for especially non English as first language speakers to understand).

[@guilhermepinage5985]

I been seeing some old videos, and this cadence is perfect to understand

[@alfharizi2209]

Thanks you for thee subs and pace you speak, i can more understanding (Iam not native english speaker)

[@harald6452]

Fiery but mostly peaceful fun.

[@Lincy7734]

Maaan you keep using endless legend and endless space OST in your videos, and im still waiting for a campaign from each of those games 🤣

[@Tarkusarkusar]

I mean I'd be down lol, but I don't think anyone would watch a random Endless Legend video. I do love that game so much though. Definitely my favorite 4X game, and Endless Space I only know the music of; haven't played the game myself.

[@Lincy7734]

@@Tarkusarkusar You could do a poll asking if people would liek ot see it, or make some kind of a guide for Endless legend

[@Anton43218]

Could you please play Wallachia? It is very easy for the Ottomans to vassalize you considering that you have no sea access and only border one different market with mostly similar prices.

[@ofwgkted]

5:21 Wouldn't it be better to tax the rich with consumption taxes (Luxury stuff instead of liquor/tobacco) ?

[@nidaren]

Seems like the latest patch really mess up things a bit, every time I start now - either France or UK demands trading port in few first years.

[@extra_tof]

Imo building unis is the seconf thing to do after getting your production cycle up. Its so important to get that research especially as japan who has high literacy. And personally i would never to go lower taxes than max taxes when i still have subsistence farmers left. You get way more sol by getting them into an industry than lowering your taxes and more money equals more building And high literacy is important for more innovation gain

[@mosquitobight]

The bad thing about max taxes is the entire population becomes rebellious and you get a civil war whenever you want to enact a law someone doesn't like. Then you can only enact laws that are popular enough to pass before the revolution begins.

[@bretthuff8971]

If you can’t get wealth voting early, is land voting a good stop gap? Or will this increase the power of the land owners?

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Absolutely. Any voting laws are better than no voting laws for the purpose of liberalizing your economy and politics.

[@cvexreos]

The Tarkus Restoration

[@ZulacecekStarcraft]

I tried this strat. In the first month France demanded that I change regime to presidential republic. Well that run didin't go well for me.

[@oldetobie2568]

This is so informative, thank you. Any tips to make the game run that fast in the later game? Mine chugs any time after 1900.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

try to avoid trade and migration (which sadly are some of the meta strats) since those cause more CPU calculations, and thus lag. Also, play on 30 FPS. For whatever reason, the lower framerate makes the game run WAY better.

[@oldetobie2568]

@@Tarkusarkusar Thank you!

[@nicka3017]

When you're nearing the end of the labor pool and you don't want to war (or can't), wouldn't the solution be to focus on universities to get better tech and PMs faster?

[@Tarkusarkusar]

It's not a bad strat yeah, just keep in mind your unis also need employment, so if you're a small country and you're already out of pops, it might make the problem worse. It's 5K pops per uni level to employ, so on bigger countries it won't change much employment-wise. You do DEFINITELY want those labor saving PMs ASAP on low pop nations.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

"...in Tohoku where there is a local source of iron and wood." Can someone explain this please? How do I know there is a "local source" here? Is it simply the fact that the state allows construction of a logging camp and an iron mine versus some that only allow one or the other or neither? Why Tohoku vs say Hokkaido which also has coal which will be needed for upgrading to steel?

[@wendysmemer8829]

The local source is your production in that state, So if you are producing wood and iron in that state, its a local source. This is nice since it doesn't consume transportation to ship it to other states, making your supply chain more efficient. For Hokkaido, since it has such a small population, if you wanting to build your industrial heartland there, you'd be limiting yourself heavily waiting for internal migrations to make your buildings fully staffed, Tohoku has a greater population, allowing you to easily just convert the exist peasants in the beginning, also Hokaido needs to be colonized at the start too.

[@Gremph]

Dude your voice sounds really nice when you speak slower!!

[@notyap9893]

how do you get the radicals to go down so much there always a a pain in the ass when i play japan

[@Tarkusarkusar]

As you get a stronger budget, you have a choice between lowering taxes, making more construction, or building up a gold reserve/pay debt off. If I find that radicals are getting a bit much, I’ll start dropping taxes wherever I can. You should also consider making some rice farms to supplement your grain supply as more and more peasants leave the subsistence farms, unless you’re going for corn laws.

[@sinisterpiggg]

I GET KRAKATOA OR FORCED MARKET OPENING IN 41!!! There's too many opportunities for deviation in vic 3 for guides to work for me :(

[@oogusboogus2748]

I love how knowledgeable you are. You make me feel like a worthless piece of shit.

[@wokealarm6203]

thank you so much

[@gaboxetix]

bro would love to see you playing a small nation, like Chile in south america

[@jacbar_01]

Hi, so i have been trying to get the hegemony achievement with Japan. The problem is that China is too strong: in 1894 they have a massive army with skirmish infantry but still lack atmospheric engine, which is quite funny. (i don't know if countries are set to be like that in the hegemony path) Is it possible to induce the collapse or should I try to liberate Korea and Manchuria earlier?

[@Tarkusarkusar]

If you want to defeat the Qing army, you just need a higher quality army. If you're in 1894, consider working towards trench infantry, and siege artillery or shrapnel artillery. With that advantage, you should be able to defeat Qing. You can also try swaying in France or Britain, who can win the war singlehandedly in many cases.

[@kernelscout3077]

Thanks for this. Ive been having a lot of trouble with persia. I feel like i take too long to do my journal entries and my economy ends up stagnating. I reached year 1890 and was still unrecognized.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Persia is tough since you've always got Britain and Russia breathing down your back. I don't have an up-to-date guide for them yet, but I did a stream as Persia you can see here: kzbin.infoht7HLnMLZpI It's not a super good run but maybe it can help you? It went kind of okay.

[@rogueinrl1963]

I was following your build a bit but ran up deficits. Are you sneaking in government admin buildings or extra taxes?

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Sometimes, I raise taxes briefly if I see my debt getting too high, and then lower them again later. It might also be that your budget is running up a deficit while your investment pool is catching up to the construction available. It just depends on the situation. Sometimes my budget would fluctuate between a positive number, and -100K, just depending on how much investment pool was available.

[@domesticdingo1417]

idk how you played a japan run and didn't have UK start a play to gain investment rights in the first four years, I've tried a few starts as japan and that has happened every time and completely changed the playstyle

[@Tarkusarkusar]

That does happen pretty often, and I believe I mentioned somewhere in the video that if that happens, you just let them open you up. It let's you start the Meiji Restoration much faster, and gets you off of isolationism for free too. You'd have to adapt your play a little bit, but it's not too bad to let Britain invest in you. The only fear is that they'll eat up all your profitable stuff, and you won't be able to get a strong base of capitalists, in which case you may want to restart, or revoke the investment rights once you're able to.

[@lema0925]

Ah yes, the pact_of_pearl_harbor my favourite alliance bloc

[@okapijohn4351]

Rural buildings should be privatized or not? Aristocrats can buy them right? So not a good idea to make them richer right?

[@marcsedoangles8417]

It doesn't work for me for some reason I start to lose population

[@d4s0n282]

fyi its not hard to pop corn laws as japan, sure its not the most easy thing to do, but you can still easily pop it early

[@Tarkusarkusar]

I'm certain there are ways to do it, but I think a lot of people are tired of corn-laws every run lol. I thought I'd try something a little more interesting this time.

[@alienmozart9902]

How do you know that you're running out of resources?

[@discocat9431]

Nah the risk of rain music at the end slaps

[@bajlozi6873]

What cpu do you have my man

[@brandonbeilbymcleod6546]

How did you get corn lows on isolationist, I thought it was impossible

[@Tarkusarkusar]

that was changed many patches ago

[@ericposey-vt5ej]

btw, if you are willing to break history you can just colonize the congo for all your wood needs. Bonus points conquering south african gold. WIth just those two moves you have everything you need, including oil. But you can also grab eastern arabia for oil.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Super true. An aggressive Shogunate Japan goes really hard, but I wanted a kind of chill economic game that wouldn't overwhelm potential new players, and I wanted to show that just focusing on employing all your pops, and only doing a tiny bit of conquest can get you really far in the game.

[@sbirchsbirch6232]

The mention of Kansai in 5:42 must be a slip of the tongue.

[@TheGoldenLeek]

Finally a non pure cheese Japan run

[@DarkEagle99]

Then there is us with adhd that hate slow talk and love fast to the point talk :D guess you can never please everyone!

[@PixelPal15]

can you next do a guide for mexico? thx