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EU5: Mastering the Economy with Peasants and Villages
This EU5 guide explains how to build a strong early game economy by focusing on peasants and villagers, using the 'tool spiral' strategy, and maximizing lower class satisfaction for sustainable economic growth.
1. 💰 The Peasant Economy Strategy and the Tool Spiral
- ✅ The strategy focuses on building a strong economy by investing in peasants and villagers.
- ✅ Peasant and worker buildings, such as market villages and sawmills, inject money directly into the pockets of the lower class.
- ✅ This money is reinvested in the economy, driving sustainable growth.
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1. 💰 The Peasant Economy Strategy and the Tool Spiral
- ✅ The strategy focuses on building a strong economy by investing in peasants and villagers.
- ✅ Peasant and worker buildings, such as market villages and sawmills, inject money directly into the pockets of the lower class.
- ✅ This money is reinvested in the economy, driving sustainable growth.
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2. 🛠️ Maximizing Peasant Satisfaction for Better Buildings
- ✅ It is crucial to maintain high peasant satisfaction.
- ✅ High satisfaction increases the likelihood that they will build quality buildings, such as armories, which provide labor and help win wars.
- ✅ For example, 80% satisfaction gives an 80% chance of building a good building.
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3. 💸 Fiscal Flexibility: Taxes on Peasants
- ✅ The money invested in the peasants can be left in their possession or recovered through taxes.
- ✅ Peasants are easy to tax at all stages of the game.
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4. 📜 State Privileges and Common Satisfaction
- ✅ Granting privileges to the estates of commoners, including peasants and workers, maximizes state satisfaction.
- ✅ This provides benefits such as increased food production, levy recovery speed, and reduced investment cost in stability.
- ✅ Despite giving privileges, the power of the commoners remains low compared to the nobility, the bourgeoisie, and the clergy.
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5. 🌱 Value of the Traditional Economy and Raw Material Production
- ✅ Adopting a traditional economy increases the cost of construction, but significantly increases the production of raw materials by 20%.
- ✅ It also increases population capacity by 25% and food production by 20%.
- ✅ Maximizing natural resources (RGOs) is crucial for a peasant and labor economy, as it generates large profits that are reinvested in the state.
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6. 🤝 Free Serfs vs. Serfs: Prosperity and Population Promotion
- ✅ Free serfs reduce maximum taxes, but decrease food consumption and increase prosperity and population promotion speed.
- ✅ Rapid population promotion is essential to fill jobs and build specialized buildings.
- ✅ Prosperity now works in equilibrium, which means that monthly prosperity is substantive and helps combat the decay modifier.
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7. 🌟 Importance of Development in the Game
- ✅ Development is the strongest modifier in the game.
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8. 🏘️ Taxes and Building Construction
- ✅ Peasants are already being heavily taxed, and they are generating a lot of income.
- ✅ Taxing them more could generate more money, but it would be taking it out of the economy, since they are building good buildings.
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9. ➡️ Individualism and Population Migration Speed
- ✅ It is recommended to promote individualism, as it increases the speed of population migration.
- ✅ This means that, by focusing resources on good RGOs from the beginning, they will be filled faster as the population improves.
- ✅ Accelerates the movement of people to cities to use the resources invested.
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10. 🚀 Practical Implementation: High Value RGOs and Exploitation of Cheap Tools
- ✅ Stabilizing the economy and focusing on tools allows you to generate a good income surplus at the beginning of the game.
- ✅ You can focus on creating high-value RGOs to boost the economy and improve sawmills to use cheap tools in the market and obtain high profits.
- ✅ These profits go directly to the peasants.
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11. 🏘️ Market Villages: The Favorite Building
- ✅ Market villages are a very valuable building.
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12. 🏘️ Market Villages: Spam in High Control Regions
- ✅ They can be built in spam in high control regions.
- ✅ They are very cheap, generate a lot of money and produce tools.
- ✅ All profits go directly to the peasants.
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13. 💀 The Black Death: Blessing and Curse
- ✅ The arrival of the Black Death is a blessing and a curse.
- ✅ Work is being done on the speed of migration, which means that it will spread faster, but it can recover significantly faster.
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14. 🔄 Transition to the Mid-Game: Exploration and Trade
- ✅ Once the RGOs have been maximized, the peasant economy allows you to reach productive capacity.
- ✅ Each country will have some kind of transformation at this stage.
- ✅ Portugal will use this wealth to explore the new world and invest in trade to prepare for the transition.
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15. 🎯 Summary: Stability, Tool Spiral and Advanced Industries
- ✅ Stabilize the economy and use the tool spiral.
- ✅ Work on maximizing RGOs to reach productive capacity.
- ✅ Don't forget to build advanced industries.
- ✅ It is not focusing on these as a commercial economy, but so many input goods are being produced in the market that it is necessary to produce output goods.
- ✅ It is not focusing on the peasant economy completely, but to obtain a great base for the economy to prosper.