Russification, Germanization et cetera.

[Carles li Reis]

First of all, in my very first post, I'd like to pay a homage to the VIP team. You are the salt of the earth.

As XIXth century is a century of waste empires trying to assimilate their cultural minorities inside their borders, having considered that Victoria's assimilation model in Europe can hardly reflect this situation, I have an idea. What do you think about adding sequences dealing with assimilation to the countries like Russia and Prussia/Germany? That's how I see it: the first event would ask a question like "Should we try to assimilate [nation]" and chosing "yes" would open a sequence with events like "A are becoming good B"- 5% of clerks in state X becomes national culture. There could be also another set of sequences, which would fire if certain criteria would be met- "The rise of national consciousnes among A in state/province Y with the majority of non-national culture". There are quite similar events in AGCEEP which turn Ruthenians into Ukrainians, when their lands become a part of Russia. A lot of work, I believe, but the the results may be interesting.

 

[unmerged(48056)]

It's ironic that the assimilation table for upper classes are the lowest, when history (at least in Poland-Lithuania and Russia) showed that aristocratic minorities are easily assimilated...
You had Orthodox and Ukrainian-speaking Aristocrats in the Ukraine become Polish overnight in Pol-Lit.


Russia it's simple to assimilate minorities: you simply migrate them into the provinces east of the Ural, where you'll get the 10,000 assimilation cap on underclass Orthodox POPs.


Germany it's a little harder, Germany is unlikely to conquer all of Russia, therefore she can use conquered territories in Latin America to assimilate populations.


I've played games as Germany where I assimilated all the Poles as Germans in Haiti and migrated them back to zee Fatherland to work in factories

 

[unmerged(131989)]

IIRC there are some Germanification events in vanilla regarding the Danish lands. I can't remember much about these events, but perhaps they could be adapted into converting a certain amount of people to Danish/German in Schleswig-Holstein, dependent on who owns it (and other triggers) of course.

Personally I wouldn't want to see such assimilation events being generic, but rather specific, where historical. Making it too easy to assimilate minorities might take away some historical feel.

 

[Talquin]

i know in VIP canada has some assimilation events.

also depends on your government as well. Can't expect these sort of events from Residence government vs. a Full Citizenship one.