Imperator: Rome - Preview with Game Director Johan Andersson

[ikki]

I really think it's more accurate to call upper-class POPs "aristocrats" rather than "citizens." In a Roman context you had plenty of citizen farmers and plenty of non-citizen landlords, and until the late principate citizenship was a special privilege handed out to non-Latins on an individual basis and not something that could just be "promoted" into. I think the terms they're using here blur legal and economic status too much.

And then the hellenes would look silly with 1 aristo pop and the rest mostly freemen and slaves and research stops dead.

 

[blusarge27]

I'm guessing there'll be some kind of slave management system where you get to move them around. So maybe they arrive in your capital and then you get the option to keep some there and move others into different cities. There might be also be ways to manage if and when slaves become free, maybe through passing a law or something, so that if you haven't been conquering for a few years and your slave pops are dwindling you can stop them from getting their freedom. Similar to what happened in Imperial Rome once the borders stagnated.

As for same culture conquests, maybe they automatically retain citizenship, and all non-citizen, different cultures automatically get sent to the mines. Or, maybe like TW:R2 you're given a choice for what to do with them once you've beaten them in battle/captured a city. I mean, what if I do want to send Archimedes or Antigonus or Cassander to the mines? We do have a tyranny meter after all

 

[Rhaegar1]

Couldn't shaves just be treated as a trade good? That way when the get in your capital you can just set up trade routes to slowly distribute them to other places. That way the slave pops in the capital will decrease and increase in other places

 

[Holy.Death]

Couldn't shaves just be treated as a trade good?

Technically they are POPs.

It can be done like in Stellaris or Victoria. You could order slaves to migrate from province A to migrate to province B (or to any of the "allowed" provinces). It wouldn't be instant but it could do the trick of reassigning them wherever they are needed. As a trade-off some of them might die on the way (to ensure it won't be used without consideration).