The Vainglory of Grogheads - Pride of Nations PBEM AAR

[Nefaro]

It seems the default starting point in trade for Sardinia-Piedmont is all over the place, im importing goods that im also exporting and money is slowly, not badly, but slowly leaking out

Just FYI.. I kept reading on the forums that if you want world trade to be bustling with available imports that players in the game must offer many types of commodities for trade, even if you must pass them back through like this.  I suppose this has to do with how the AI nations run their economies and their reliance on healthy quantities of player exports to produce other goods that they, in turn, will offer.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

It's now the end of May, 1850 in the game.  Russia's internal economy is still doing fairly well.  Private capital was expended to add a branching rail line on the St. Petersburg-Moscow main line.  The new line will add Kiev and Smolensk to the rail network.

A new merchant fleet has been under construction in St. Petersburg for a few months and should be ready to launch by the middle of July.



State capital was spent improving the road network between Moscow and Nizhny-Novgorod in anticipation of the new machine parts factories being constructed there.



In spite of a decent economy, people are not happy with their tax burden.  A fair number have left Russia and emigrated to the US and Canada.  This despite the fact that I've lowered taxes considerably since the game started.

Still more have left the cities of western Russia in favour of living in the backwoods of Siberia.  Mad bastards.  (You can see in the message bar at the bottom of the screen that 51,000 have moved there so far this year.)




On the diplomatic front, Tuna proposed a State visit of French officials to Russia.  Not sure if he's after vodka or pole dancers.  Oh well, we accepted.  Check out his sweet hipster moustache in the upper right corner of the screen!

[undercovergeek]

Right, late June, the markets have stabilised themselves, i dont have a shortage of anything and im trying now to predict future needs.



Commerce shows i have successful selling markets in fish, fruit, preserved goods, cotton and wine

and that im buying in coal, wheat, cattle, wood, dyes and iron - the last 3 are to keep the factories running



As the comment feed shows, were buying in £52 a turn and selling £87 so capital is increasing all the time but the long term goal is to build our own coal mine, cattle reserve and machine parts factory - a way to go yet



We also need to expand the merchant fleet to open more trade markets to us - im in a lot of bother if the scandanavian wood industry dries up

[Staggerwing]

Man, it looks like you are in a world of hurt- you don't have any coffee!

[undercovergeek]

Man, it looks like you are in a world of hurt- you don't have any coffee!

there go my plans to unify Italy!!

[Martok]

I hope you'll forgive my question, geek, but I'm curious as to why you're working so hard to make Piedmont self-sufficient in terms of exports/imports.  I thought I recalled the game encouraged interdependence of trade/goods among nations to a certain degree. 

Is my memory playing me false here?  Or is it more that in your particular case, many of your imported goods come from countries you expect you'll be at war with in the not-too-distant future, and so you're trying to wean yourself off of them as early as possible? 




Also:  Why does Tuna not post as well?  Certainly he isn't any more shy or less bold than geek and SDR.  ;D

[undercovergeek]

just a balance of payments thing Martok, if i can stop money leaving the country to pay for coal, wood, wheat, luxuries and cattle it allows me to spend more on improving the infrastructure of the nation and spend more on the army, plus if those imports dry up my factories stop working - for instance i buy coal from North Germany - they have 72 units to trade away but a demand of 86, sometimes i get it, sometimes i dont

[MetalDog]

I can answer your question about Tuna, Martok.  It's because trying to get him to remember to take screenshots to AAR is like trying to get the Cookie Monster off cookies.  It ain't going to happen.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Yup.  Charlie don't surf and Tuna don't AAR.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

My merchant fleet is finally complete and set up trade routes from the UK to St. Petersburg.  The Japanese are offering inducements to the savages on Sakhalin Island in an attempt to curry favour.  I responded by sending some missionaries and merchants to win over the populace and some bribes to the chiefs.

State coffers are empty again and the harsh conditions in the wilds of the east are slowly draining the strength of my units there.  I can't afford to replace all the losses. 

The Yanks are making noises about Alaska.  I may be induced to sell if the price is right.

[JasonPratt]

Yup.  Charlie don't surf and Tuna don't AAR.

That's okay, makes him a mysterious component whose effects can only be inferred from evidence.  :)

Right, late June, the markets have stabilised themselves, i dont have a shortage of anything and im trying now to predict future needs.

I really don't know why you're pasting url links to imageshack, UGeek. Using the {img} code by itself works fine. Also, note how I scaled back the image with the width=xxx subcommand, easily added to the initial img code. Does that look better guys?

Here it is in, um, 1024...



Right now, you've set your imagizer at the shack to 1600x1200, G; and there are ways around that manually, too, but just using the forum software here to scale the images seems to work fine.


SDR, here's one of yours at 1024:

[undercovergeek]

Yeah I only made them big because at 1200 they were too squinty

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Yup.  Can't read the font if you shrink it.  Lazy bastards can scroll to the right.

[Staggerwing]

If you resize the pic using the html code in your post then someone can click in the image and it will appear full size until they click again.

[undercovergeek]

Cool I'll make em smaller