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[unmerged(12115)]

ok, i got some questions
hopefully these havnt been asked before, search is off and all
anyways, my questions have to do with Canada, as thats where im from
1) can GB buy alaska and add it to British North America(iirc alaska was baught before confederation)
or is the alaska purchase an event (im guessing i could buy it)
2) is confederation an event? (im guessing yeah)
3) what are the motivations for migration, and how much controle does the player have?
eg. in the later 1800s Canada gave out free land on the prairies, to atract immegrants, and tried to limit immigration from China and India
is there a way to set these things, or are they events, or do they not exist?

i hope this stuff isnt covered under the NDA, but hey, im just passing time till i get the game in hand

 

[Gwalcmai]

Trading land claims is in, as shown on one of the screenshots. But it should be really expensive, so trading just cash for land should be well above most budgets.

 

[Grosshaus]

Originally posted by CanadianWarrior
3) what are the motivations for migration, and how much controle does the player have?

As Patric said, if you treat people badly, high taxes etc., they will emigrate on themselves whether the player wants them or not.

 

[Orm]

Re: Re: questions

Originally posted by Grosshaus
As Patric said, if you treat people badly, high taxes etc., they will emigrate on themselves whether the player wants them or not.

And of course the opposite is also true.

 

[unmerged(19173)]

Originally posted by CanadianWarrior
ok, i got some questions
hopefully these havnt been asked before, search is off and all
anyways, my questions have to do with Canada, as thats where im from
1) can GB buy alaska and add it to British North America(iirc alaska was baught before confederation)
or is the alaska purchase an event (im guessing i could buy it)
2) is confederation an event? (im guessing yeah)
3) what are the motivations for migration, and how much controle does the player have?
eg. in the later 1800s Canada gave out free land on the prairies, to atract immegrants, and tried to limit immigration from China and India
is there a way to set these things, or are they events, or do they not exist?

i hope this stuff isnt covered under the NDA, but hey, im just passing time till i get the game in hand

On 1

The Tzar sold Aalska, because there was a huge famine in Russia and only US could supply wheat in suficient quantity. The Tzar had enough gold, but US wanted land, not gold.

Could be organised as an event and the country which can supply a huge amount of food gets alaska.

 

[ComteDeMeighan]

Originally posted by Gwalcmai
Trading land claims is in, as shown on one of the screenshots. But it should be really expensive, so trading just cash for land should be well above most budgets.

Regarding land claims someone has said before that it is very expensive to buy land off another country but of course one has to wonder is it cheaper to buy the land or cheaper to mobilize the army and take the land......

 

[unmerged(16585)]

1) my understanding is you can buy any province... for a huge sum, though the Alaska purchase event will probably be in if you don't buy from the Russians in time.

2) probably but who knows (the betas) if it will make Canada (or whatever Dominion it happens to) an independant nation, as in reality Canada didn't get control of its foreign affairs until 1931, or the ability to change its own constitution until 1984.

3) hopefully implememted in some way as it was a large part of Canada's strategy to lure people to the frigid wasteland that is my home
and the Chinese/Indian thing? You mean the exclusion act, that would probably be to hard to implement, though what would be easier is a treaty like what Canada and Japan had, making it legally impossible for people to migrate from one to the other.

 

[unmerged(14180)]

I would think that the nation would have to want to sell the land as well....and in most cases, unless the land was worthless, i cannot see many nations selling land helter skelter.

just out of interest sakes, did anyone own the western areas of the US at the start of this game? Spain was it?

 

[Derek Pullem]

Re: Re: questions

Originally posted by todorp
On 1

The Tzar sold Aalska, because there was a huge famine in Russia and only US could supply wheat in suficient quantity. The Tzar had enough gold, but US wanted land, not gold.

Could be organised as an event and the country which can supply a huge amount of food gets alaska.

Actually I understood another driver for Russia selling Alaska to USA was that they feared in any furture conflict with UK that they'd lose it for nothing. Negotiations were first started in 1854 at the time of the Crimean war I believe.

At the time there was a large amount of backhanders supplied to ensure the approval of the purchase and the deal was widely perceived as a bad one for the USA. Until they found gold / oil

 

[Porcius]

Originally posted by Sapper_Astro
I would think that the nation would have to want to sell the land as well....and in most cases, unless the land was worthless, i cannot see many nations selling land helter skelter.

just out of interest sakes, did anyone own the western areas of the US at the start of this game? Spain was it?

In 1836, the Oregon Territory was disputed between the US and the UK. California and the Southwest were Mexican, the Spanish being driven out not to long before.

The wide stretch of land between Ohio and the Oregon was claimed by the Americans, though sparsely settled by whites.

 

[unmerged(14180)]

Thanks Porcius

 

[unmerged(16585)]

The reason the US bought the Alaska territories was so that it could surround the British colonies of Victoria and British Columbia and that they might therefore choose to join the American nation instead of the (then being discussed) Canadian nation. BC probably would be American right now if it weren't for Ottawa's promise to build a railroad from Vancouver to the Atlantic (which also strengthened the governments hold on the prairies, which had just been aquired from the Hudsons Bay Company)