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EU5: Basic Urbanization Guide for Beginners
This video provides a basic guide on urbanization in EU5, explaining the three levels of urbanization (rural, urban, and city), their benefits, and how they influence the economy and development. Strategies for resource improvement, provincial control management, and the importance of terrain and infrastructure are discussed.
1. 🏘️ Urbanization levels and their benefits in EU5
- ✅ Rural: Max RGO, population growth, and food production.
- ✅ Urban: Potential for higher-level pops, additional control, supported building levels.
- ✅ City: Improved version of urban, with higher pop promotion speed and construction speed.
- ✅ Urbanization allows building bourgeois and civil infrastructure buildings (e.g., temples that give +5 max control).
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1. 🏘️ Urbanization levels and their benefits in EU5
- ✅ Rural: Max RGO, population growth, and food production.
- ✅ Urban: Potential for higher-level pops, additional control, supported building levels.
- ✅ City: Improved version of urban, with higher pop promotion speed and construction speed.
- ✅ Urbanization allows building bourgeois and civil infrastructure buildings (e.g., temples that give +5 max control).
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2. ⚖️ The relationship between food and urbanization
- ✅ Food is a key factor for urbanization.
- ⚠️ In markets with little food surplus, urbanization capacity is limited.
- ⚠️ With huge productions, marginal returns decrease, making additional urbanization less lucrative.
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3. 💰 Strategies for resource improvement
- ✅ If the base price of the RGO is 3 or more, consider not improving it to maximize the value of the RGO.
- ⚠️ Do not improve silver or gold.
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4. 👑 Provincial control and power bases
- ✅ Obtain valuable bonuses in provinces with resources.
- ✅ Production efficiency increases by 10% if wool is produced in the province.
- ✅ Control is a crucial factor that multiplies production to determine the contribution to the tax base.
- ✅ Build urban areas in high-control areas to extract a higher percentage of the value.
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5. 🗺️ Market access and strategic power bases
- ✅ Market access works similarly to control.
- ✅ Build in the capital and market capital to obtain 100% of the value.
- ✅ Create power bases in areas of high proximity and market access.
- ✅ Use naval projection to have multiple locations with high market access and control.
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6. 📈 Development, population, and economies of scale
- ✅ Build around development and population.
- ✅ Greater migration attraction in areas of high development.
- ✅ The maximum levels of each building are influenced by development and population.
- ✅ Economies of scale increase production efficiency, allowing you to produce more goods and lower prices.
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7. 🏭 Impact of production efficiency
- ✅ Production efficiency is crucial for the profitability of buildings.
- ✅ Without production efficiency, some buildings could not function.
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8. 🌱 Terrain, climate, and population growth
- ✅ Build on flat terrain to avoid penalties to development and proximity.
- ✅ Build on grasslands and farmlands for additional development growth.
- ✅ Farmlands have a negative impact on prosperity but benefit development growth.
- ✅ Population size depends on vegetation.
- ✅ Farmlands give +100k of population capacity.
- ✅ Grasslands and forests give +50k.
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9. 🔄 Movement of markets and capital
- ✅ It is easier to move markets and capital than to change the terrain.
- ✅ Consider moving markets and capital instead of forcing construction on unfavorable terrain.
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10. ⚓ Infrastructure: Natural ports and rivers
- ✅ Build around natural ports for naval infrastructure.
- ✅ Improve urban areas with natural ports to build naval facilities.
- ✅ Rivers unlock useful buildings.
- ✅ Irrigation increases food capacity.
- ✅ Combine rural areas with irrigation and farms to create a strong food production location.
- ✅ Build bridges (urban or non-urban) and canals (urban only in cities) on rivers.