Hey all, I've been trying out (vanilla) Victoria 2 again and currently trying to understand how westernization works. What I've been able to glean from the internet is that military conquests yield high amounts of research points. However, after conquering Dai Nam I didn't notice any significant increase. Do I first have to research a reform in order to get these research points from conquest? - Aside from the usual 'promote Clergy' and maximizing education/bureaucratic spending, are there any other ...

Used to lower the resolution and run on Fullscreen to get a larger ui, this has stopped working as of late. Don't know what changed? MIght be a windows update messing with things but messing with the compatibility mode didn't fix it and ive already tried all obvious stuff to no avail Had a go at recalling the window with WinExplorer but the cursor doesn't compensate for the forced window size Any similar issues out there?...

I am not familiar with the game mechanics of paradox games, but I do like the Victorian Era, so I bought Victoria 2. The game seems extremely detailed, and requires a lot of micro management. I went through the tutorials once, and I may need to go trhough them again. Do you have to have to have past experience with the game mechanics of Paradox Games to play VIctoria 2? Can you play a less detailed version of it? Or a quick way to learn it? Are there videos avaialble that walk you through it? Just wonde...

Hello, I'm playing Victoria 2 HPM and I'm finding there are lots of Jacobin Rebels rising up and spawning which is making my gameplay impossible to play from the first uprising. Anyone have any suggestions?

I was playing prussia, decided to start the game by attacking denmark, I had pretty much ALL of their territory occupied & yet out of nowhere I supposedly white peaced out? I had an alliance with Sweden, did that have something to do with it?