Rubber???

[Alvazia]

Does anyone know where is the rubber plantation? am I just blind or what? X(

[CINARRA]

Was wondering the same thing. Turns out you need to wait for "Rubber discovered in X" events. Similar to gold that randomly comes up.

[Gaz]

you also need to actually have a province where you can grow rubber.

[Flythos]

Colonize Africa and go exploiting ... Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Tabc ... rubber ... alle jucy stuff to explode your GDP ... the only bad thing is ... these other europeans try to get there first ...

[CINARRA]

Interesting. So after reading up, Hevea brasiliensis, the plant used on rubber plantations is actually from Northern Brazil, and was only brought by the British to Southeast Asia after they managed to smuggle some seedlings in 1875. They then cultivated it on massive scale in their colonies, that is why we associate rubber plantations with places like Malaya.

So in the timeline of the game, the best area to find rubber should - in theory- be in South America.

[Gogopher]

1-have a prov that can build rubber...
2-have the mastication (or whatever its name is) researched
3-have enough room to build a plantation
4-build the plantation

[Ixal]

You need research to build plantation. And they can only be build in jungle regions, mostly central Africa and Brazil. Maybe also in SEA.

[Lumminat]

Insane that there is no synthetic rubber, like wtf, makes the game much harder.

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

Originally posted by Lumminat:

Insane that there is no synthetic rubber, like wtf, makes the game much harder.

well, it's not that hard. go and colonize some places or take a state off someone else that produces rubber

[Asher]

rubber is whatever, not having oil really screws up your plans to get top GDP, played brazil and that's what lost me that race Sadge

[Alvazia]

Thank you all for the responds I appreciate it.