I can confirm, this guy was first

@@TobyYellsAtThings nuh uh im first

Yeah, it's a bit annoying how little awareness this guy has towards this games sometimes

He as a person is enjoyable to watch. His videos are still good. But it’s a really strange strategy his unique feature is of everyone playing vic3 he seems the only one who doesn’t …. Do economy… he doesn’t make construction sectors at the right points, he doesn’t manage taxes or consumption taxes, he doesn’t build urban buildings or resources much, he seems to mostly build farms. He doesn’t do an industrialisation or capitalist loop. He doesn’t seem to regularly check trade. I don’t know I’m kind of gesturing at “everything” economic here lol. It just isn’t on his mind

So this is kinda a big answer but I'll try to explain it because I do get comments like this often. I tend not to focus hard on economy because it really isn't worth my time and effort to do so. In the grand scheme of youtube I have to worry about things a bit differently, I have to prioritize the thumbnail and title of the Video. That means I need something eye catching. Usually that just means I need to take over a lot of land as a nation in order to advertise it in the thumbnail without click baiting people. Now technically speaking I should hard focus economy in order to build up later and crush everyone right? In theory yes, however this game starts to run poorly at about the 1870-1880 range. That means in order to accomplish anything interesting, instead of playing 3 hours a session, I'm now playing 6 hours, which is a massive difference turnaround time. Unfortunately this basically means If I want my videos to get views/make enough money to justify doing this, then I have to focus on military stuff instead of Economic stuff. Maybe in the future when I have enough of an audience where I don't have to worry about it I'll do the economy well, but until then it kinda just is what it is.

@@TobyYellsAtThings okay, i'm just joked and have no intentions to criticise you. If i have offended you, I'm sorry

@@user-mv4li7lm8w You're fine. I was responding to someone else in the comment chain. I'm not irritated, just sometimes I feel like I need to explain why I play this game the way I do.

The youtube comments will bully me

I usually play each nation about 3 to 4 hours.

in 800 hours of game time I can count on one hand how often America doesn't take Mexico's lunch money

Because honestly, that's how it feels. I have a lot of free time at the moment that I won't have forever. If I'm not able to build up the channel enough to make it a career by then, then I'll have to do something else as a Job. Thankfully that's a while off but I still need to put a ton of work in now to build it up.

@@TobyYellsAtThings true the work is really paying off the content is great! i’d love to just play paradox games rather than an actual job so im fulfilling that dream through u

I don't think I ever said why, but when I was thinking about doing it I didn't have a navy to invade with.

I tried to play Morocco once, I went terrible and I cried. Real talk though, that is a nation I want to play as a non A to Z country. If I can figure out something cool to do with them I'll make a video on them.

​@@TobyYellsAtThings 1) Re-Reconquista -> Conquer Iberia 2) Expand South-and Eastwards and dominate the whole of Northwestern Africa while batteling the european colonisers 3) Reverse Ottoman Empire (who tried to subjugate them) -> Go east along northern Africa and Conquer everything the Ottomans owned

​@@letsplaypetrus4802man i tried to do it but spain fucked me

​@@TobyYellsAtThingsoookkk if you need some help cring i can help you😊

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