Effect of improvement of IC & Infrastructure

[oscripts]

In the previous HOI games, I was always thinking about

why building more IC doesn't effect man power growth? Won't it be more realistic? If your economy grows then life conditions and life rates would increase, which would effect the population growth.

And also if a country focus on on customers goods then it can also have an effect of manpower growth.

And why doesn't improving Infrastructure doesn't increase the logistics capasity?

What do you think?

 

[zeekater]

why building more IC doesn't effect man power growth? Won't it be more realistic? If your economy grows then life conditions and life rates would increase, which would effect the population growth.

But not in such a short timespan
The game only runs about 10 years, too short to see such an effect.

And why doesn't improving Infrastructure doesn't increase the logistics capasity?

It does now, with the new logistics system

 

[Black Lotus]

As said before by zeekater something like that would be best seen in Victoria over a large number of years.

 

[unmerged(135152)]

It is quite true what has been said, 10 years doesn't cut it.

And on a(n) (un)related note constructing provincial infrastructure can mean anything between building roads and railroads to simply allocating resources to the defence and establishing local depots. As such it may or may not affect the civilian population.

 

[sbr]

If anything you should see a reduction in manpower if you double the size of your economy in such a short time frame; you would need more workers in the factories meaning less available for the military.

 

[Porkman]

Also, infrastructure should have more of an affect in the technologically backwards areas like China or South America. Right now it just affects movement, but it really should affect how many resources can be extracted. China has 12.6% of the world's coal, behind only the US and Russia. Most of that is located in the northeastern provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi.

One of the primary reasons that Japan attacked China was to seize these coal reserves.

In the current game China has energy problems and increasing the infrastructure from 20% to 100% in these provinces should help alleviate that. One of the few accomplishment of the Japanese occupation was expanding the infrastructure in northern China and Manchuria to facilitate resource exploration.

 

[Alex_brunius]

Yes, technologies that increase Efficiency of Industry or Agriculture can free more workers up for military duty. But when it comes to Industry most would actually preffer to build 25% more tanks instead of free 20% of the workers from Industry if they could.

As said increasing the IC value of a specific province from say 10 to 11 would actually require more workers and if anything reduce your manpower gains in that area.