Should I literally ever stop building?

[Fyre]

Trying to knock out the tutorial achievement as belgium and i'm realizing i'm totally out of peasants and people to work laborer jobs and i'm running out of those resources and convoys, should I just... stop building production buildings?

Edit: I'm changing processes so there's less laborer jobs required but this doesn't feel like a permanent solution.

[Zero, Dark Knight]

Building stuff is usually good, except if at war (army costing you money) - or if your spending of resources is damaging to the economy (temporarily stop.) or you're building up investment pool. (temporarily stop.)

Other than that- more buildings is just usually better.

[Fyre]

Originally posted by Zero, Dark Knight:

Building stuff is usually good, except if at war (army costing you money) - or if your spending of resources is damaging to the economy (temporarily stop.) or you're building up investment pool. (temporarily stop.)

Other than that- more buildings is just usually better.

Yeah after fiddling with processess I can keep building but I think I may have too many construction sectors.

[Zero, Dark Knight]

You don't 'have' to use all the construction capacity, white minus number are "acceptable" losses, red number is extreme loss, and don't forget that businesses built will increase your max credit.. red bar (debt) is also a form of payment to your people who own government debt, so it feeds back into your system.

It's not a bad thing, I think most people say about 30-45% of the red bar is acceptable, if your war situation is looking clean for the near future. -- if you're expecting to go into war, try and maintain a positive and build up some credit (gold bar.) first.

Also, always build certain buildings no matter the cost if you have them available to you (gold mines for instance. and oil wells.)

[HolyJack]

Originally posted by Fyre:

Originally posted by Zero, Dark Knight:

Building stuff is usually good, except if at war (army costing you money) - or if your spending of resources is damaging to the economy (temporarily stop.) or you're building up investment pool. (temporarily stop.)

Other than that- more buildings is just usually better.

Yeah after fiddling with processess I can keep building but I think I may have too many construction sectors.

Try turn on automatisation and transportation for all the buildings.

If you already did it then try open the borders/control migration.

if you did it too try increase accepted cultures law.

Again if you did it then stop building for god sake.

[FlameWar]

If you literally ran out of peasants to fill up all the other jobs, and automated everything else, then yes, stop building temporarily.
There are however a couple of possilbe ways to bosot oyur population. One is ofc to lessen border controls/allow immigration, and naother is to support multiculturalism so those imigrnats won#t be radicals.
Another it to wage a war and snip yourself a piece of a high population country. E.g. if oyu get a procvince of india, or china or suchlike, you can get tens ofm illions of pops form a single province, which will then proceed to mgirate happily to oyur home provinces to fill in any non-peasant job left open.

[joebrender]

A half-full building doesn't cost more then half of a full building, so by having say 200% buildings for your 100% population, you'll see people ebb and flow to the best paying jobs(most productive in theory factories). This is theoretically goodish.

[kgkong]

- Set up trades to import goods that your pop groups want/need that are expensive for them to bring up their SoL.
- Enact the Greener Grass decree.

Doing this, you'll be able to siphon mad amounts of population from the trade market you're in. If you're not a subject to anyone, join a custom union. It helps to switch to some more liberal legislation like things that improve cultural acceptance, education, health care and women's rights.

You should only ever start running into a lack of infrastructure and/or hitting your taxation capacity limit if you did this right.

[[GCC] Excellero]

If you build only ressource buildings like mines and farms you will miss a lot of goods you need to run them.... you need tools for your mindes and fertilizer for your farms... fertilizer is produced in chemical plants and tools in the tool factory. And to make tools you need steel wich is made in the steel mill wich requires tools iron and coal.
....and so on :D

[Kimlin]

Early on with small nations I do what I call the construction dance. You turn on and off construction as you build your investment pool so you don’t bankrupt your nation. Because of this I usually push for Laissez-faire ASAP.

[lubed_assassin]

Originally posted by Fyre:

Originally posted by Zero, Dark Knight:

Building stuff is usually good, except if at war (army costing you money) - or if your spending of resources is damaging to the economy (temporarily stop.) or you're building up investment pool. (temporarily stop.)

Other than that- more buildings is just usually better.

Yeah after fiddling with processess I can keep building but I think I may have too many construction sectors.

Overconstructing hurts your economy really bad unless you have built an insane amount of construction goods or your importing them.

Basically if you were using Iron frame buildings you need a lot of tools and iron, to compensate you overbuild iron and you can build a lot. This takes taxes and pays your iron workers to keep building. But this keeps prices high for industry.

If you cut back your building iron prices drop and steel and tool prices drop increasing productivity in your industry sector.

On a side note, more or less trade works this way by letting trade routes get larger or pulling more resources as an import based on need.

[Sulphur]

Just invade France