u/Remarkable_Catch_953

I see the big tip from the wiki is just to release them all as puppets, but I’d rather avoid this.

I’ve tried a few games in a row now. At one point I got the number of radicals down to less than 200K by 1840… but Nicaragua still broke off, which increased radicals, which then convinced Honduras to split… and that was that game over.

In another game I tried to really hyper-focus on my 3 most populous states so that I would at least have a platform for conquer everyone else back into the fold… but the number of radicals from the split nations made that impossible.

On several games a nation would split off in February 1836.

I generally try to rush to bring down wood, fabric and food prices, and then build consumer goods (though I rarely get to this stage), have the lowest taxes and highest wages with a stable government, quickly pass religious education with amendments to appease the main movement and as many interest groups as I can… and it just doesn’t seem to do a thing to save me?

I haven't played Vic 3 for quite a while now - I think maybe even over 2 years ago since my last game?

I have gathered speed on a few of the changes, but there are still 2 big ones I'm looking to wrap my head around: movements and trade.

To help myself with understanding, I'll run with the following example.

I'm playing as Venezuela, wanting to create a gigantic tobacco export economy. To achieve this I have 2 aims; get industry banned for the huge investment pools buff for argicultural buildings and get a big enough trade advantage to export a steady amount of tobacco.

This, from my understanding, would likely require a strong peasant movement that spawns leaders with the luddite ideology and lots of influence in various regions of the world to get my trade advantage up? Is this correct, and are there other pathways for either objective?

Now assuming this is the case, apart from bolstering the peasant movement when (if) it spawns, how else can I best increase its strength? I also frequently see pop ups about "X ideology politician has spawned for Y interest group", but I'm not quite sure how to take advantage of this to get those politicians to leader their interest group?

As for trade advantage, it seems it is very hard as Venezuela to get a large influence in any region outside of South/Central America (without a lot of navy investment), so I'm honestly not sure what I would do here? Is there a way that I can export huge amounts of tobacco profitably without needing this influence?

StationLink (route 19) takes up a lot of daily services (running as frequently as a BUZ for most of the day) and, well, is hardly used by anyone.

Now it makes sense that it continues to run until Moorooka Station has finished its rebuild... but does anyone know what will happen to it after then?

My hope would be that its services could be redistributed among the nearby services, that in ways act as "station links".

For instance the...

• 102 (Inala to Oxley station),
• 468 (Oxley station to Indooroopilly station),
• 104 (Corinda station to Yeerongpilly/Boggo Rd stations),
• 105 (Indooroopilly station to Yeerongpilly/Boggo Rd stations),
• 112 (Griffith station to Boggo Rd station),
• and 113 (Holland Park West station to Boggo Rd station),

... could all really benefit from increased frequencies. These would combine nicely with the existing increased frequencies to the 177 (Carindale to Griffith station) and 182 (Garden City station to Holland Park West station), to potentially form a bit of a "station link" network on the southside?

Feel free to roast me lol.

Some explanations:

• Woolloongabba, UQ Lakes, and Roma St are designed to be the main termini - with 4 chargers each (or 6 in the case of Roma St), they should be able to handle each route travelling at 3 minute frequencies
• Mt Ommaney to Mt Coot-tha follows the Western Freeway
• Darra, Beenleigh, Carseldine, Windsor, and Cleveland are located at their respective train stations
• The UQ Lakes to Toowong alignment involved crossing across the river at Guyatt Park - Orleigh Park, and then from Orleigh Park - Toowong Village
• Naming conventions:
  • M1 (111, extended to Springwood)
  • M2 (222, extended to Cleveland)
  • M3 (333, extended to Carseldine)
  • M4 (Western suburbs use the 4xx convention)
  • M5 (Logan uses the 5xx convention)
  • M6 (66)
  • M7 (Gold Coast uses the 7xx convention, and Beenleigh was not only temporarily part of the Gold Coast, but also connects with the Gold Coast line)

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Recently, Infrastructure Australia shortlisted the Brisbane Metro as one of its few high priority projects for QLD. Hopefully this means that we might see a bit more action politically.

The Lord Mayor acknowledged this on his social media, but an interesting part of his posts jumped out to me. He mentioned that they were keen to expand the metro to: Capalaba, Springwood, the airport, and Chermside.

Perhaps this was a typo (as all council websites still reference Carseldine), but I found it interesting that they didn't mention Carseldine in this case? If it wasn't a typo, I wondered if this indicated that they were progressing on an M2 extension already and had started firming on Chermside as being the terminus?

I spotted #9057 being tested today - not far away from the full order being complete!

Perhaps a new timetable and increased frequencies soon?

On a slightly unrelated note, who else feels that turning the 169 into a new metro route would be a good idea?