So a single RGO per province as a concept is dead? That's wonderful, seems way more flexible in a realistic manner. In short, there is no system of building вЂslotsвЂ™ or anything like that, as we want limitations on buildings to function in a sensible and realistic way. Urban Buildings such as Factories however, are only limited by how many people you can cram into the state, simulating the more densely populated nature of cities. Many of these buildings are limited by locally available resources such as Arable Land for agriculture and simply how much iron is available in the state for Iron Mines. Unlike Government Buildings, Private Industries are not owned by the state but rather by Pops such as Capitalists and Aristocrats, who reap the profits they bring in and pay wages to the other Pops working there (usually at least - under certain economic systems the ownership of buildings may be radically different!). The vast majority of Buildings in Victoria 3 fall under this category, which includes a broad range of industries such as (non-subsistence!) farms, plantations, mines and factories. The counterpart to Government Buildings is Private Industries. The vast majority of the worldвЂ™s population starts the game вЂworkingвЂ™ in subsistence buildings as Peasants, and much of the gameвЂ™s industrialization process is about finding more productive employment for your Peasants. These are a special type of highly inefficient Buildings that cannot manually be built or destroyed, but rather will appear anywhere in the world where there is Arable Land that isnвЂ™t being used for another type of building. When Buildings are constructed, the construction uses Pop labor and goods, and the costs involved will be subject to market forces.Д«ut onto the different building types! First out, we have Subsistence Buildings. Most buildings are directly constructed, but some (like the Subsistence Buildings below) will appear automatically based on certain conditions.

This holds true even for buildings like Railroads and Ports that did not need Pops to work in them in Victoria 2. Buildings always need qualified pops to work in them to yield any benefit, and an empty building is just that - empty and completely useless. We will return to states more in later dev diaries, but for now letвЂ™s keep talking about Buildings!Д«efore we start on Buildings, something thatвЂ™s important to note is that Buildings are just places where Pops can work and generally do not represent a single building - a single level of Government Administration, for example, represents the necessary buildings and infrastructure to support a certain number of Bureaucrats.

Victoria 3 development diary