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Post by Emma de Normandie on Sept 12, 2020 14:48:44 GMT -6
Recently I have been watching kotori87's YouTube play-through of Great Britain, and he explained an interesting philosophy of not using the possession points after you win a war and the unused points will in turn become increases of your base resources which indirectly increases your base-level yearly budget. Is this true?
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Post by aquelarrefox on Sept 12, 2020 17:10:35 GMT -6
Recently I have been watching kotori87's YouTube play-through of Great Britain, and he explained an interesting philosophy of not using the possession points after you win a war and the unused points will in turn become increases of your base resources which indirectly increases your base-level yearly budget. Is this true? I have already listened the same in an old tortuga power. I'm not sure if it's too much advantage, also adding possession get much budget in the time or at least I perceived it. The video of Magnus playing Spain, destroying all worlds fleets and getting the lower budget of the world was so funny. |
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Post by hawkeye on Sept 13, 2020 0:37:10 GMT -6
Yes, not spending those "victory-points" will increase your base income and, in the long run, will be more beneficial than grabbing additional colonies. It also makes it much easier to keep your fleet concentrated, if you're not playing as say, France or the UK (Playing as Austria-Hungary or Italy, I only grab everything in the Med, which allows me to get away with short-ranged B/BBs, as Germany, I ignore anything outside Northern Europe for the same reason. Of course, I have just started a new Germany game with the house-rule to grab everything I can get my hands on (hey, my boss _is_ Kaiser Wilhelm II - "place in the sun" and all that, you know  ) |
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Post by director on Sept 13, 2020 7:07:25 GMT -6
I only take colonies for fleet basing overseas, or to deny bases to a (potential) enemy in an area where I have bases.
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Post by lucur on Sept 13, 2020 9:26:14 GMT -6
It also depends on whether you intend to go into war against the same enemy again. With possessions, you gain less ressources, but you're also taking away enemy possession to deny them staging points and income, while allowing yourself more base cap.
I'm currently playing as the IJN in the mid 20s, 1900 start, and have all colonies in NE and SE asia that are not british, in my last war against Germany i decided to take tanganiyka to expand my domain into the indian ocean.
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Post by hawkeye on Sept 13, 2020 10:04:46 GMT -6
Good point.
Also, taking places from the enemy where he can put land-based aircraft can be _very_ important - especially in relatively confined areas like the Med or North/East/Baltic sea.
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Post by Emma de Normandie on Sept 13, 2020 10:18:49 GMT -6
Yes, not spending those "victory-points" will increase your base income and, in the long run, will be more beneficial than grabbing additional colonies. It also makes it much easier to keep your fleet concentrated, if you're not playing as say, France or the UK (Playing as Austria-Hungary or Italy, I only grab everything in the Med, which allows me to get away with short-ranged B/BBs, as Germany, I ignore anything outside Northern Europe for the same reason. Of course, I have just started a new Germany game with the house-rule to grab everything I can get my hands on (hey, my boss _is_ Kaiser Wilhelm II - "place in the sun" and all that, you know ) Thank you for the confirmation. Do you know how many "victory points" translate into how much base resources? Is there a formula for that built in the game? And how long does it take before you can see the increase of you base resources in the almanac? |
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Post by hawkeye on Sept 13, 2020 14:25:02 GMT -6
You should see it instantly.
I don't know about the formula and tracking it is a bit tricky, since your income raises over time anyway, so you'd have to record it every month during a war and then there could _still_ be a rise just in the month of peace, giving you wrong numbers still.
I don't know the formula, but it's pretty minor - still more than you get from colonies though.
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Post by dorn on Sept 13, 2020 15:46:01 GMT -6
I think 1 point of possession is about 25k, 1 point of left points to reparation is about 50k plus further increase of base resources every year.
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Post by aeson on Sept 13, 2020 16:30:53 GMT -6
1 point of left points to reparation is about 50k plus further increase of base resources every year. Note that the increase that dorn is referring to here is the natural growth of base resources over time, not any additional gains from the treaty. |
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