Penal Colonies

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After reading some of the threads relating to slavery, etc, It occoured to me that it would be interesting to see if Victoria modeled in penal colonies - a la my own home in the antipodes.

Essentially the convicts sent to Australia were almost the equivalent of slaves, and it seems to me that this would not be handled correctly by the normal 'send colonist to yarra' a la EU2.

I can forsee events dealing with this perhaps, but if, as slavery is included, would this incorporate the convict 'trade' to Australia?

 

[Archeolooginspe]

The french could have devil's Island in French Guyana. But most of the prisoners of this penal colony, if they survived returned to France. So I think maybe it's a not so important detail

 

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Who the hell would want to travel to some uninhabited island (except for natives) all the way across the globe? Prisoners! And who would want to go to French Guyana. Prisoners! Maybe, there should be a small % or # of people that you can tell where to go.

 

[Phil Beard]

When did transportation to Australia end?

 

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Originally posted by Phil Beard
When did transportation to Australia end?

i think it was mid to late 1800's and South Australia never had convicts sent there and i wonder if johan will include the gold rush of the 1850's

 

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Penal colonies are interesting hopefully they will be represented.
maybe you could choose to make an area a penal colony and depending on population and crime rate the population would be increased?

 

[Jools]

not necessary in a game such as VIC

 

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plz tell us why?