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Pop Needs and Goods Substitution Guide

By Monotone

The different pop needs, what goods that they require, and what they can be substituted for.

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Category: Gameplay Basics

Languages: English

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3 Nov, 2022 @ 5:54pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Pop Needs vs Wealth Diagram

Heating (All Wealth Levels)

Intoxicants (All Wealth Levels)

Simple Clothing (Wealth 1-14)

Basic Food (Wealth 1-29)

Crude Items (Wealth 5-14)

Standard Clothing (Wealth 10-39)

Household Items (Wealth 10-44)

Services (Wealth 10+)

Free Movement (Wealth 15+)

Luxury Drinks (Wealth 15+)

Luxury Items (Wealth Level 15+)

Communication (Wealth 20+)

Luxury Food (Wealth 20+)

Art (Wealth 30+)

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Introduction

All pops in Victoria 3 have various needs and require goods to fulfil them. What a pop needs is determined by their wealth level. Wealth is built up over time if a pop earns more in wages than they are spending on goods.

They do not need all goods, and any combination of goods from each category can be bought to fulfil the need. (With a different value depending on the item's base price.)

Every good- with exceptions- can only fulfil up to 80% of a need.

Some goods have a different minimum or maximum level at which they can fulfil a need. For example, a maximum of 40% of the Basic Food need can be satiated with Meat, the other 60% needs to be another good. A minimum of 5% of the Household items must be Furniture, your people can't just sit on glass and paper. Electricity can fulfil 100% of your pops' heating need.

Some goods also have a weighting, which is a multiplier that determines how much pops will prefer it over another good in the same category. This weighting is also affected by cultural obsessions and taboos.

All the exceptions to the 80% rule and default weighting are noted below, under each category.

At the moment this is not made very clear by the game, and you have to dig through multiple tooltips to find this information. That's why I've organised it into this handy guide, sorted by the wealth level of the pops who buy them.

Pop Needs vs Wealth Diagram

I've made this graph to help visualise the different pop needs by wealth.

Heating (All Wealth Levels)

Wood (max 60%), Fabric (max 60%), Coal (max 60%), Oil (max 60%), Electricity (weight x2, max 100%)

Intoxicants (All Wealth Levels)

Liquor (max 60%), Tobacco (max 60%), Opium (max 60%)

Simple Clothing (Wealth 1-14)

Basic Food (Wealth 1-29)

Meat (weight x0.5, max 40%), Fruit (weight x0.5, max 40%)

Crude Items (Wealth 5-14)

Standard Clothing (Wealth 10-39)

Household Items (Wealth 10-44)

Furniture (minimum 5%) Paper (weight x0.5, max 40%)

Services (Wealth 10+)

Free Movement (Wealth 15+)

Services (weight x0.1)

Luxury Drinks (Wealth 15+)

Tea (max 60%), Coffee (max 60%), Wine (max 60%)

Luxury Items (Wealth Level 15+)

Luxury Clothes (minimum 5%, max 40%), Luxury Furniture, (minimum 5%, max 40%), Porcelain (minimum 5%, max 40%), Radios (max 40%)

Communication (Wealth 20+)

Services (weight x0.1), Transportation (weight x0.1)

Luxury Food (Wealth 20+)

Meat (max 40%), Fruit (max 40%), Groceries (max 40%), Sugar (weight x0.5, max 40%)

Art (Wealth 30+)

Services (weight x0.05)

22 Comments

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Finarfin 26 Mar @ 12:46pm

You'd probably be wrong, Spartan.

The_Spartan 25 Mar @ 2:04pm

So Paradox thinks everyone is a drinker? I bet that back on this time, many people didn't drink anything but water.

Tasteless 26 Dec, 2022 @ 8:41pm

Thought the base price determines if one good is superior in that category we have to remember that it's capped at 80%.

Monotone [author] 26 Dec, 2022 @ 7:22am

You could probably open this page in your browser and Ctrl+P print to get a printed version

Dray Prescot 25 Dec, 2022 @ 11:21pm

where can we get a printable version of your charts? To make it easier to consult in the middle of playing a game.

Tasteless 5 Nov, 2022 @ 9:30pm

Good stuff, thank you!

passover1105 4 Nov, 2022 @ 8:34am

@Cradd & Walrus

SoL is equal to wealth level, at least atm.

Go to Population - Detailed List and expand the list. Hover over the SoL of a pop (the word struggling for example) and wait for the tooltip. "The SoL of the pop is x due to : Wealth x".

If you hover over the number after wealth, the tooltip shows their income and expenses. If you hover over the expenses for needs, you see exactly what they've bought.

Soviet K Dog 4 Nov, 2022 @ 5:43am

@Cradd its SoL

Cradd 3 Nov, 2022 @ 10:32pm

Yes, but what is "Wealth Level" and how to view it on a pop? When I try to guess what impact private schools have, for example, (1.5% education per "wealth level") what exactly am i calculating? Where in the UI can i see this stat?

Monotone [author] 3 Nov, 2022 @ 4:59pm

Wealth is accumulated or lost over time based on a pop's income versus expenses. Standard of living is based on wealth but can be modified by other variables.

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