What is market penetration and how does it work? The manual mentions this briefly in a few places, but never actually explains what it is. I remember reading about it several times too, but now I can't find any reference to it in the game. As Japan, theoretically a "closed" economy, I am trading wi...

I also had this problem many times. I had not modified any game files or done anything strange in settings. In every case, I closed the game, then restarted, and when I reloaded the save I was somehow at the previous turn (without specifically trying to dial it back). At that point, I was able to ad...

Seems reasonable. I will test the settings provided by Athens, thanks. I don't like making it a 4% chance per turn since that will on average (not just in edge cases) make the event happen much, much later than historical. I would have a stronger connection between the US event and the Japan trigge...

marcusjm wrote:Meaning of course that you shouldn't get it all the time. Having alternate course of action is important.

Yes, but I don't think that there really is an alternate course of action at the moment. Maybe a job for the modders (or even me)

Playing as the US I had Perry die of disease while sitting in San Francisco (no jokes, please). I'm still waiting to see if I can fire the event anyway. You do not need Perry for the event AFAIK, you just need > 2 subunits in the Bay of Ise. It's called the "Black Ships" event and not actually the ...

Open Jap.sct file in the event folder. Search for these lines: SelectFaction = $USA SelectSubUnits = Region $Bay of Ise;FactionTags USA EvalSubUnitCount = >=;2 Probability = 75 Suppress them ( 2 occurences). For now, the Perry events will fire even if the US AI doesn't send units in the Bay of Ise....

Great guide, the need for a Wiki becomes bigger each day ;) . What do you do if the modernization event doesn't take place? Well, I'm well into 1854 and the modernization event has not taken place... so basically I'm trying to fix the bug by editing source files and forcing events to fire. Mixed re...

I can't seem to lower the amount of manufactured goods I'm selling to my populace any further than 10%. This is a problem, since as Japan my manufactured goods output is really low, and the larger my manufactured goods stockpile gets, the more goods the people buy and the slower I can save up to buy...

Since a lot of forumites seem to be here but not there, I'm reposting this guide/log of my first few years as Japan that I originally put up on the Paradox forum. It also serves as a basic economic primer: Your first task is to get your consumption of industrial materials stabilized so your factorie...

If you bought the download version and not an hard copy, then you are already in 1.01, so no need for a patch. For betas are in 1.01d but QA must approve it before anything. Usually Paradox releases beta patches to registered users in the Tech Support forum; is it a policy that you won't be followi...

Open the console; then type ForceEvent evt_nam_JAP_BlackShipsEdo1853 Enter, close the console Event should occur in the next hosting. Date is officially 1853/08/07 :cool: I tried that previously and it didn't work, but there's a possibility the problem there is on my end (I edited the japan events ...

I'm well into 1854 as Japan with no sign of the Black Ships. I'm new to AGEOD's event files so I'm not sure how to figure out where things are breaking. It seems strange that the minimum time for the American Black Ship events is 1952, but the minimum time for the Japanese events is late 1953. Is it...