Reread the post that I quoted. I wouldn't pay to work in the first place. It was in jest at your typo, and you took it far too seriously and much too far.
Pops choose unemployment over "lower" jobs?
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Reread the post that I quoted. I wouldn't pay to work in the first place. It was in jest at your typo, and you took it far too seriously and much too far.
I didn't mean literally and personally to you. Nevermind, I was too hum in that thread anyway.
Apparently Paradox believes in the concept of "sticky wages".
In any event, I do think that there should be an inverse relationship to living standards and time to demote. Under, say, utopian abundance, it would make more sense to just sit around doing nothing, where as having baseline (or lower) living standards would likely encourage you to get off your butt and try to find whatever work you can.
In any event, I do think that there should be an inverse relationship to living standards and time to demote. Under, say, utopian abundance, it would make more sense to just sit around doing nothing, where as having baseline (or lower) living standards would likely encourage you to get off your butt and try to find whatever work you can.
I'd actually advocate for the exact inverse effect
Under Utopian Abundance (or Shared Burden), your stratum doesn't really matter, you'll get the same amount of food and consumer goods if you're a worker, specialist, or ruler. As such, who cares if you're a governor or a farmer? You're treated the same.
But under heavily stratified society, going from governor to farmer means losing a LOT, both in upkeep AND political power (don't forget about political power!).
Why the hell would you be willing to throw away that political power?
And even when a pop is unemployed, you're still paying its upkeep, right? They just suffer from a happiness malus.
It's also what makes the strength and the weakness of a stratified society. You only have to care about a few pops (mainly your ruling pops, but also to a lesser extent your specialists), so as long as you have jobs for them you're fine. But once they are unemployed, and thus unhappy, oh boy are you in trouble
Ok ... this has gone political. Guys and Gals, may i remind you, that this is a games forum?
This is exactly the reason, i mostly do not write on forums. Because too many people go off topic and i can filter through a whole load of irrelevant (for the topic) posts just to get any kind of answer to my question. If you want to talk politics or the morale ideas of the devs, go for it, but PLEASE open another discussion for that on a board that thematically is fitting or in a private conversation.
I'm out.
This is exactly the reason, i mostly do not write on forums. Because too many people go off topic and i can filter through a whole load of irrelevant (for the topic) posts just to get any kind of answer to my question. If you want to talk politics or the morale ideas of the devs, go for it, but PLEASE open another discussion for that on a board that thematically is fitting or in a private conversation.
I'm out.