I suggest colonial ventures for gems/opium. Attempt to get good relationships with China (it's a bit of a punching bag, but watch out for it's large army - they have huge reserves of men). With good relationships and a commerical agreement, you can build silk plantations there (and don't have to wo...

It's not that simple, a lot of times the AI never offers gems or gold as they are converting them into state funds. The same with silks, the AI tends to not build enough structures, and there is always a severe shortage. The AI overbuilds coal for example, but not enough silk plantations, or any ot...

Been playing PoN over the past week as I was moving and had no internet. Some observations / questions / complaints: I am not getting decisions when the tooltip says they should be available. This includes the mil reducing / contentment raising decision in F1 and F6 screens, and the boost your milit...

PhilThib wrote:Install the patch before, it's better and safer. The DLC does not ask you to repatch afterwards

Will this DLC change the base game at all? It mentions new techs and units.

Sounds like a bunch of cav brigades might work better than a cav division then?

If people are not buying it then stop producing it and try to build some textile factories or something to use up the cotton people aren't buying, nations always buy textiles. As for the coversion thing, its a problem, but its not a bug or anything, its easily figured out. The Indians can only be d...

Playing a new game as 1.3 as the US, no one is buying my cotton. This is causing problems with my private capital as you can imagine. I have 300+ in stock and 80 on the market. Any idea what I am doing wrong or how to find out? I also can not see when the button to convert gold/supply/preserved food...

You really want to pull a lot of information from us, do you? :) Yes city size is used in many parts of the game, this is for example one of the parameter used to determine how many units you can recruit in a given region. Railroads for the economy is local in effect, but for supply and military tr...

Cities emerge (and grow or shrink) in accordance with the population of the region yes. As for the resources, it is still alpha work, but your input is very welcome on that! Didn't realize cities were of different sizes. Are there in game effects based on city size? Are things like the transcontine...

I was looking at the California Screenshot. The only natural resource I can see in California and Nevada are cattle in Sacramento. This seems off, as I recall gold being shipped to the US as late as the Civil War, and CA has always been a good source of foodstuffs. Is this just not an economic overl...

Thanks for your reply, I've just noticed that there seems to be dearth of games set between Napoleon and the ACW.

Is it too soon to ask if there will be a demo? I'm downloading the WIA demo atm to check it out.

I haven't played many of ageod games because they seem to focus on war, and I prefer empire building, but this game has captured my interest. First off, do any of your other games focus on empire building the way this game will? Second, why 1850? Why not 1820, or some other arbitrary date. Just curi...