Ok so I've only ever played this for like one day, and I cannot seem to play for more than two hours without absolutely tanking my economy.
I'm playing as Cuba, and obviously my goal is to liberate the Cuban people from the tyranny of the landowners and Catholic church and eventually establish communism.
I've watched a couple of "complete beginner" videos on the topic, but there's almost twenty "complete beginner" videos in this series and they're all like 40 minutes long lol. This game is insanely complicated.
I've played a lot of Tropico so I am not unfamiliar with "nation building" games, but this is of course way more complex. It only dawned on me recently that the reason that the plantations that I started with weren't making me any money because they're owned by the fucking ruling class and not the state.
So, any pointers? Early on in the game what should I be focusing on? What should I build, research, etc? I've established that I need to first start a construction industry (Cuba starts with none) and build some plantations in order to get some money flowing in, but after that I'm just kind of lost. Plus the Spanish empire seems to immediately gift me Puerto Rico for reasons unknown and it's a completely impoverished backwards starving hell hole, so then I have to deal with that hot mess too.
Thanks in advance Hexbears.
Yeah I tried the tutorial campaign as Colombia but I think one of the DLCs that was bundled with the pack I bought broke it, causing an event not to be triggered or something, because suddenly it just stopped giving me guidance part way through (very early on). Normally I obsessively go through the tutorials for new games I am learning.
With this game, the tutorials aren't the best anyway imo. Best to learn primarily from videos, but the tutorials they have are helpful to keep you from getting too far lost (unless they break).
But yeah Vietnam is just 3 states so it's manageable, although you're gonna get colonized pretty early on.