Hearts of Iron IV

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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

How do you block exports? They're eating up my factories for building.

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Exports don't use your factories? or I didn't think they did. I know Imports do.

To block exports, you change your economy type to "closed" and this allows you to keep a bigger chunk of your resources opposed to putting them on the market for other powers to use. For imports, you chose and set these yourself, if you need a lot of resources due to lack of native resources, you will need to build more civilian factories or conquer some rich provinces.

I doubled checked. When you are exporting, you actually gain factory capacity, as the nation importing pays for it using the factories.
"Resources can be bought with the production capacity generated by civilian factories, meaning the resource-producing nation will receive factories in exchange for their exported resources"
"In practice, trade laws set a flat percentage of resources for export as well as side bonuses from trade in increased factory output, construction speed, and research speed"

So yes, you must be importing, and if so, you are paying for the resources with factories. So the solution is that you need to change your production, so require less resources, or to increase your factory amount.

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Originally Posted by Beskar

Exports don't use your factories? or I didn't think they did. I know Imports do.

To block exports, you change your economy type to "closed" and this allows you to keep a bigger chunk of your resources opposed to putting them on the market for other powers to use. For imports, you chose and set these yourself, if you need a lot of resources due to lack of native resources, you will need to build more civilian factories or conquer some rich provinces.

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Both do now, which is a problem that I want to solve but I can't except by changing economy.

I thought exports gave you civilian factories? Is that not the case anymore? Yeah, the only way to stop that would be closing your economy.

As far as fighting the Japanese goes, you basically have to island hop across the Pacific, which is somewhat annoying. Take an island, re-base your navy and army, and do it all over again. You should be able to out produce Japan, depending on how you built up your economy early game. I'll try to answer any specific questions you have, but my knowledge of the game is a bit outdated. :sweatdrop:

Are any of the expansions/DLCs worth buying? Seems like most reviews are negative in regards to them.

Also, the AI still sends forces into the middle of nowhere, while they lose their homeland. Both Germany and Italy have dozens of divisions fighting in mainland China with Japan while they were both being captured by the Allies/Comintern. Good times.

The main issue Im seeing with the DLCs is that they really dont offer much compared to their price. $10-$15 for a bunch of new focus trees and some things which should have been in the base game anyways? No thanks.

Ive heard that they are making major plans for the next update, like restructuring how field marshals work so they arent just generals who can command more units and adding more decisions to the game. So we will see when the update eventually comes if I will pick it back up or not.

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Originally Posted by Hooahguy

The main issue Im seeing with the DLCs is that they really dont offer much compared to their price. $10-$15 for a bunch of new focus trees and some things which should have been in the base game anyways? No thanks.

Ive heard that they are making major plans for the next update, like restructuring how field marshals work so they arent just generals who can command more units and adding more decisions to the game. So we will see when the update eventually comes if I will pick it back up or not.

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Yeah, that's what I've been seeing as well, they aren't worth what they change in-game. I've just been playing minor nations recently, my current game as Mongolia:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...?id=1127259991

Been some time since posts were made on this thread - but in the meantime, HoI IV has been upgraded extensively and some good DLC came out. :yes:

However, careful with the DLC's - a lot of the features should have been in the base.

Is it worth playing the base game? I don't particularly want to spend money on DLCs honestly, since a lot of them, like you said, should have been in the base game.

If you can get it on sale, definitely yes. However... a lot of base features are only in DLCs and if you love micromanagement like I do, the Man the Guns DLC for naval expansion and obsessive micromanagement is necessary.

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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

If you can get it on sale, definitely yes. However... a lot of base features are only in DLCs and if you love micromanagement like I do, the Man the Guns DLC for naval expansion and obsessive micromanagement is necessary.

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I've got the base game just not installed anymore, somewhere around ~100 hours played. I stopped playing because I mostly liked playing minor nations, but it felt like some features just made it impossible to win without the production power of the major nations. I might install it again and see if I can get some of the DLCs when they're on sale.

My issue with the game was that you couldnt do small wars because they would just bring in a bigger power at some point and make it impossible to win. For example I was playing as Greece with the aim of staying as a neutral regional power. I invaded one of my neighbors, might have been Albania. When I invaded they were not allied with Germany but quickly afterwards they joined an alliance with them and Germany entered the war on their side. I conquered my initial goal but it ground to a stalemate since nobody could make any gains. The most frustrating part was that there was no way to end the war except with either a white peace, me surrendering, or fighting my way through Germany to force them to capitulate which isnt going to happen as Greece. I eventually pushed Germany back to the point where I had conquered all of Albania but because Germany had not capitulated, the war wasnt going to end. Maybe this was fixed later, but I feel that if the main target country capitulates in cases like these then the war should have an option for a negotiated ending.

Playing as small nations, unless you have a dedicated tech tree (Romania fortunately has one, and a very detailed one too, if you get the DLC), it's not that fun to play as.

I played as Canada with a dedicated tech tree, and while it was fun, by 1945 the whole thing was a stalemate with 3000 airplanes on each side battling it out while the ground forces were locked down.