Comments - GeelongJr

I don't mean to cause any offense, but I've played this mod for a really long time and I'd be willing to wager that it'd be more than just about anyone.

The economy in this version is pretty broken, I hate to say it. Maybe it works in terms of in-game functionality, but in terms of realism (which is a huge strength of this mod) it's a no-no. I've played hours of this version on the start date of 1946 and 1992 and I keep encountering the same issues, which I've scoped out using the war analyser.

As someone else said, car factories are a huge problem. They are way too valuable and absolutely dominate the world economy. Some other things dominate too much as well; airplanes, ships, cigarettes, footwear.

This means that off the bat, economies like Russia absolutely dominate, when in 1992 for example and throughout the 90s they were an incredibly poor economy. Russia pumps out the car factories, and so do random nations like Thailand or Iran, and they become the richest in the world. Meanwhile some of the wealthiest in the world like Australia, Switzerland or Norway fall behind, as natural resources and white-collar industries fall far behind.

I remember a few versions ago when the inputs for financial services were different (I think they were computers instead of precious metals and paper and whatnot) and I think that made for a much better balanced game, where white collar service industries like computers, healthcare, financial services, education and so on are able to dominate and countries like Australia are accurately able to be amongst the wealthiest in the world. I don't know how to fix this, maybe use the credit RGO in places like Geneva, Frankfurt, Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, Chicago, Tokoyo etc. and connect it with financial services in a way that gives those absolute wealthiest democratic countries the boost they should have.

Love the mod, thank you so much for the work you do, but I have to say that the economy is so out of balance that it's almost unplayable in this version. Maybe that's me being nitpicky, but I've probably got 1000 hours in CWE. I'll be going back to an older version, best wishes.