getting new POPs

[TheDarkside]

Is the only way to get new POPs in the game by having a POP with a population of 100,000 spawn new ones which you can then convert? So only big cities can expand their factories and RGOs while rural provinces are stuck forever with same amount of POPs?

 

[Generalisimo]

Originally posted by TheDarkside
Is the only way to get new POPs in the game by having a POP with a population of 100,000 spawn new ones which you can then convert? So only big cities can expand their factories and RGOs while rural provinces are stuck forever with same amount of POPs?

Only inmigration and movement of POPs can do that... you are not able to spawn a POP into new ones.

 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

immigration and pop growth only I think.

And this is probably connected with the pop(ulation) question:

Does Vicky simulate the population boom of the 19th century? After all the populations of the European countries boomed despite the massive immigration to the New World.

 

[unmerged(10915)]

Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
immigration and pop growth only I think.

And this is probably connected with the pop(ulation) question:

Does Vicky simulate the population boom of the 19th century? After all the populations of the European countries boomed despite the massive immigration to the New World.

There are lots of techs that enhance your population growth.

 

[Chilango2]

Originally posted by Crazy_Ivan80
immigration and pop growth only I think.

And this is probably connected with the pop(ulation) question:

Does Vicky simulate the population boom of the 19th century? After all the populations of the European countries boomed despite the massive immigration to the New World.

To put this more accuretly, the massive immigration to the New World was in large part *because* of the population explosion in Europe. The pop growth still outpaced immigration, of course.

 

[Spruce]

Originally posted by Chilango2
To put this more accuretly, the massive immigration to the New World was in large part *because* of the population explosion in Europe. The pop growth still outpaced immigration, of course.

population explosion is not really a push factor,

push = no food,
push = no jobs,
pull = jobs available,
imho, the biggest factor pull factor - but it was perhaps pré-Victoria - was the availability of cheap and fertile land,

that's why the USA boomed that much, later on the availability of jobs took over the land as dominant pull factor,

 

[RoboCzar]

Wait a cotton pickin' minute here!

Let me see if I've got this straight. If you have a POP, and it reaches 100,000, any growth over that *does not* spawn a new POP of the same type?

This is very, very wrong....unless I'm mistaken in my comprehension.

 

[TheDarkside]

Originally posted by RoboCzar
Wait a cotton pickin' minute here!

Let me see if I've got this straight. If you have a POP, and it reaches 100,000, any growth over that *does not* spawn a new POP of the same type?

This is very, very wrong....unless I'm mistaken in my comprehension.

I'm guessing any other existing POPs will grow faster once one POP reaches 100k

Edit: but then again, what if for some reason there is only 1 POP of 100,000? No more growth in that province? Now I'm confused!

 

[Zakath]

As long as there are pops of the same kind (job, culture, religion) a pop at 100k will help fill those up to 100k. Once all pops of the same kind are at 100k a new pop of that kind is spawned and filled up. Then the circle continues

Zak

 

[unmerged(12067)]

I have yet to try this out in practice but as far as I know if you say had one 100.000 labourer POP and it grew and spawned a 1.500 labourer POP and you made the new POP a craftman, the 100.000 POP would spawn a new 1.500 labourer POP. If I tried to turn the second new labourer POP into a new craftman it shouldnt merge with the first craftsman POP but become it's own group. Is this the way it works?

[edit- just saw my question has been answered since I didn't refresh the thread before responding. Please ignore the post above]

 

[RoboCzar]

Thank you Zakath. I hope you're right.

It would have been nice to include these things in the manual!