milanmax said:
I was wondering if anyone has developed a strategy to attract immigrants? I noticed if a player has a liberal government, full citizenship and an American capital, then you will get plenty of immigrants until the liberal revolution ends. For example I released and played Canada until the end of the liberal revolution, with my population increasing to seven million by 1850.
I was wondering after the liberal revolutions what strategies should be pursued to attract immigrants. Also is it possible to attract immigrants to South Africa?
Often imigration will sharply decrease by the end of the liberal revolution.However i found that this decrease mostly applies to statehood state's, while colonial state's will often continue to hoard in imigrants at the pre 1850 pace for the whole duration of the game.on the ther hand however, should you have non-statehood states before 1850 then usually the immigrants will go there (the colonies) nad not at all to the statehood states, wich is kinda ironic if you consider that social programs and ellection rights actually only applie to statehood states.
In the case of Canada, i would colonize my country but for omptimal immigration rate i wouldn't claim the colonies before the immigration to the statehood states have dried up, then when the claims are made colonies it would have attracted quite some immigrants as long as it's not yet declared statehoo, however even then certain factor's do apply like whether or not the province is a coastal one, has a good life rating, or has an interresting trade good like precious metal or Iron.Immigrants are strangely more attracted to precious metals or iron, and also to islands and high life rating provinces.As to the attraction rate of precious metals, it's not so much that the specific province gets so much by attraction, rather that a state wich incluede's a precious metal mine has more immigration in the whole.
You can easily see this with USA and the new aquired regions.As long as they arn't statehood they rack in quite a lot of immigrants, especially in Vip where life rating of new regions are increased for a while and this also in precious metal province's.But from the moment that you declare the statehood the immigration about dries up.
As test, you could capture the mines of johore or Siam after national immigration has dried out, and see what that does to immigration to youre new colonie, i bet youll be surprized.Many south American country's have the abilety to stack precious metals RGO's trough imigration, though it seems i have been the only one yet to maximize this as a strategy.I did once capure quite a lot of gold province's early on as Urugay in a test game to see how many immigants i could hoard in my gold colonies, directing all immigration there.In colonies pops don't assimilate, as a result i had about 5 precious metal mines each racking about 30 to 50 smallpos in it, wich game me about 200£ net a day each!An extreme ay to create a cash cow, with the sacrifice that these immigrants hence didn't came to my national lands anymore and that hence cultural manpower stayed ver low trough the game, though that has it's advantage's on the tech level to.
As to Africa, it makes no difference, as a large SA immigrant attractor whether you have youre post 1850 colonie in Africa or Asia, granted the same immigrant atracting modifiers the state will rack in just as many immigrants.
