how do you assign factories to build?

[MSgt Peterson]

this game is way different then Heats of Iron III, I liked the simple menu's then this lol
how do you assign factories to produce stuff? I cant figure out how to build a factory since I need to assign a factory to do it but I dont know how.

I want to make Albania a super power again lol

[[NL]Ibahalii]

Go into the build option(next to trade in the top left)
Look down the list and you will see 3 types of factory
- Civilian
- Military
- Naval

Depending on what you need/want you click the corosponding factory,
and click on the land/region you want to add the type of factory.

There are some limitations, as in the max amount per area's (increases with pop, techs, focus and/or events) which depend on your countries state and being etc.

then you have a cilil setting, that decided that #% of your factories needs to be civil.
If you go over that % you lose all your building power.

So keep in mind that your civil factories build your upgrades(max 15civil facotries per project).
Your civil factory number needs to be #% of the country(depending on your politics).
If you run out of Civil factories you can no longer build anything anymore, untill you change the #% of civil factories needed. or untill you lose what is bottlenecking you. or untill you capture more land with more civil factories.

Now also keep in mind that you will need to have civil factories for trade. so use them wisely.

Military and Naval building have less restrictions are basicly are only limited by the #% you need to have civil, and how much a area can carry.

[ha]

You can build infrastructure and civilian/military factories in specific menu. In usual production tab you can assign military factories to produce certain stuff.
For an example,say you have 10 civilian factories , 4 military ones and 1 dock.
With 10 civilian factories you can build infrastructure ,other civilian factories,military factories et ctr.
With 4 military factories you can have up to 4 lines of different stuff. Say ,1 equipment,1 supplies,1 trucks and 1 artillery. Or you can throw all 4 factories on 1 line producing military equipment,which would be wiser.
Same with docks,docks can produce only ships.

[Sohei]

In the construction screen you select the icon for civilian or military factories then click on the map to build them in an area. Same for shipyards. They will take some time to build and require more free civilian factories to construct thigns faster.

Then go to the production screen to assign idle military factories and shipyards to production lines. Click on one of the types at the top and choose what you want to build from the list to start a new line. Alternatively you can click on an existing line and give it new item to produce.

You can allocate more military factories or ship yards to particullar lines by filling up more boxes. Greyed out ones are for automatically assigning any factories that become available in the future to that line. Extra factories and resources are assigned in top to bottom order.

[MSgt Peterson]

this is very confusing, giving me a headache lol

I know how to build supply lines and assign existing factories to produce but I dont know how to assign existing factories to build other factories.

I went on the menu, clicked where I wanted to build new military factories then went back on the production screen where it shows whats being built but there's no progress on my factories since I need assign them.

Sorry if am being retarded

maybe thee's a video that shows how to do this?

[equinox1911]

there is another menu for the civilian factories, which are used to build structures.
Also they auto assign, kinda.

[[NL]Ibahalii]

that is most likely because there are 0 free civil factories.

Civil factories build everything for you.
So you need civil factories to make military/naval factories.

They go down a que line.
So if your civil is busy repairing, they wont build new factories.
If there is no que, and still no progress, it simply means you have no civil factories free.
and you will need to stop some trade deals to free up civil factories, change the politics to lower the #% of industry needed for civil goods.

[Sohei]

Builiding civilian factories is done just by clicking on map. If you have few of them then progress will be extremely slow. on the left you should see a list of the contruction build queue. Each item can have up to 15 civilian factories building it. They are automatically assigned when free in top to bottom order. To increase priority for construction, clik the arrow next to it to move it up in the queue.

Since they are also used in trade it is possible to run short. So, at the start of the game you should be building lots of civilian factories.

You can only assign military facotries on the production screen after they have finished construction of course. Without enough civilian factories to bulid those military factories then production will suffer.

[Rabob]

Add me on steam, stream the game and I can probably tell you what's wrong.

[MSgt Peterson]

think I figured it out but how do I increase max amount of factories I can build? I only build 12 in total