Uhh....what? It makes sense that people in better economic conditions will have more (non-crime induced) babies.Actually no, people in better economic conditions will have less babies.
Why does it make sense?Uhh....what? It makes sense that people in better economic conditions will have more (non-crime induced) babies.
Because people are less likely to want to bring a child into a horrible place than they are a wonderful place.Why does it make sense?
Europe and the USA are the richest areas in the world and the population is actually shrinking....
Poor people have more children because of the lower survival rate and to sustain them when they're too old to work. Moreover, it is very very expansive to raise kids in a more wealthy environment as education takes much longer (and is more expansive) e.g. a 6 year old kid can do stupid work in a factory, but is useless as lawyer/engineer etc.
New HRE is great, but I'm wondering if this system can be "extended" to other regions. If HTT would use (or allow modders to use) HRE system as basis for japanese shogunate it would be awesome!
This. Especially how you mentioned religious orders. I have an idea to replace the current Papacy-Curia system (which imho is kinda unrealistic) and it is to use a HRE-like system where nations vote for a new pope. By combing the Curia and HRE systems, nations bribe cardinals to vote however the nation wants, and there is a set number of cardinals(electors). Example: France bribes Cardinal Richelieu, France dictates to Richelieu to vote for John Doe(who is from Spain), and then Doe gets a majority of the votes and become pontiff. France could also vote for France (if they wanted to). I don't think this system will be implemented, but I also know that PI had said they would change the Papacy a bit, so hopefully...What's this got to do with...
Oh, sorry...
Didn't recognize the on topic post... :rofl:
Actually, This sounds very intriguing... Makes you wonder if it could be done in such a way that it could be remodeled after other organizations. The shoguns were the first thing that came to my mind too, as well as being able to develop intricate Hansa type organizations or other religious orders...
T
Europe and the USA are the richest areas in the world and the population is actually shrinking....
Poor people have more children because of the lower survival rate and to sustain them when they're too old to work. Moreover, it is very very expansive to raise kids in a more wealthy environment as education takes much longer (and is more expansive) e.g. a 6 year old kid can do stupid work in a factory, but is useless as lawyer/engineer etc.
Because people are less likely to want to bring a child into a horrible place than they are a wonderful place.
@ OliverFA: I didn't think about Magistrates improving the economic condition, and therefor improving birth rates.
Todays diary is about that agglomeration of states which Voltaire thought was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. As a Swede I am of course bound to concur. Cum Deo et victribus armis! Even so, the HRE wielded a lot of power, and in another world, full of little eagles, crowns and, indeed, Krauts, it might eventually have coalesced into a proper nation. And that's what we're all about here at Paradox; alternate history! Well, that and authority, but more on that later.
In Heir to the Throne, we are adding more features to the HRE than it had members. Well, maybe not, but still quite a few. First off, a new concept called Imperial Authority. Imperial Authority represents the amount of control the Emperor exerts over the princes of the empire. It can be gained or lost in many ways, for example by answering the call of members under attack by foreign powers, or by liberating an annexed HRE member. The main reason for having Imperial Authority is to execute the special decisions that will allow skilled Holy Roman Emperors to tighten the reins on the member princes and eventually unite the disparate fiefdoms under one banner.
We are also adding at least two new diplomatic actions: "Bestow Imperial Grace" and "Enforce Religious Unity". The first works like "Send Gift", except it costs Imperial Authority rather than gold and gives a greater boost to relations. The second is a demand for conversion. If the errant princeling accepts, the religion changes and the Emperor gains more authority. If he refuses, the Emperor gains a special Casus Belli. (Speaking of which, in line with the new CB system, princes of the HRE are now allowed to fight each other without incurring the wrath of the Emperor, provided they have a valid Casus Belli.)
Finally, we have the "Imperial Ban" Casus Belli, which the emperor can employ against any non-member country with provinces that are part of the Empire. This only becomes available after a certain reform decision has been taken at the cost of Imperial Authority. (You will have noticed I've mentioned authority a lot. That's because at Paradox, we like authority; especially Johan.)
Now, while the above system is essentially done, the HRE window is unfortunately not, so I cannot provide you with a screenshot of the altered interface. Instead, I will let you feast your eyes on another new feature, cruelly allowing your imaginations to run wild until the next diary entry.
Adieu.
Exactly, some people are oversensitive for everything and for nothing, personally I think that we should not be worrying about who gets offended much less apologize.It's amazing what people can read into a post... The example given is fact. It's just what people do. 'Hey, there's a great country over there where we can find work and support our families better than here...' No secret plot, no hidden agenda. The game doesn't do culture shift like this very well, but the fact remains that California, among half the other states in the country have had to rewrite laws, reinterpret laws, reinvent laws and procedures to deal with millions of people who don't speak 'American' as their native language.
In game terms, if you take over a province, it will be filled with people that are native to the province, but not native to the nation that owns it. It's symbolized rather weakly now with nationalism RR. It would be nice to have a magistrate assigned to the province to speed that along. His job entails establishing and enforcing the views and laws of the motherland, not reinforcing the views and laws of the old province owner.
As a separate spy mission type thing, it would be very interesting to send someone in to plant subversion, or 'work ' a province to help a nation before they take it over. Propaganda if you will. I won't bring up any examples of it though, as someone will surely misread and interject all sorts of comments about how I offended their lack of sensibility. I'm sure all of you can come up with propaganda references of your own.
Really guys, read a post for what's there, not for what you can make out of it... Having said that, I wonder how long it takes for someone to get all bent because I used 'American' and 'Native' in the same post, and how offended they are...
T
Uhh....what? It makes sense that people in better economic conditions will have more (non-crime induced) babies.
Have you seen statistics about world birth rates and world's worst conditions? guess what? the countries with worst life conditions are the ones with higher birth rates, and vice-versa.Because people are less likely to want to bring a child into a horrible place than they are a wonderful place.
@ OliverFA: I didn't think about Magistrates improving the economic condition, and therefor improving birth rates.
I guess that's part of the problem!No, they have no TV, so they are bored. Thats the reason.
Exactly, and that's exactly the problem here, when the native population of a country starts being out-breed by non-natives it's something to take concern, and start asking questions:It's been shown that the better educated people are, the fewer children they tend to have (or at least, the later in life they'll have them). Might be due to a more developed sense of self, better understanding and access to contraceptives, fewer ties to religious traditions which encourage multiple children/discourage contraceptives or abortion, whatever. Some of the most economically developed countries have major problems with birthrates. France and Japan are both facing major population crises due to low birth rates. And even for the US, I believe I read our population increase is due more to immigration than to "native" births, particularly among the European descended population. It's been out there for years that the latino population is growing faster than other groups here.