Urban Population: What's it do?

[Plasma Doctor]

I've never seen it in my game's effect base tax, manpower, or anything else at all. Is it just an indication of how well the province is doing overall or it basically just pointless data numbers?

 

[unmerged(200028)]

http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Population

Here is the article for the EU3 Wiki, (which should be up to date, AFAIK), and it should explain it's actual mechanics. You can hover your cursor over your tax and get a tooltip displaying how much your population is affecting your income, etc.

 

[jdrou]

Aside from the various effects of the Units value, population also affects the speed of religious conversion by missionaries. Higher population provinces are harder to convert.

As well as making missionaries more expensive.

Correct. I always seem to get that mixed up if I don't check it.

 

[EliteTK]

As well as making missionaries more expensive.

 

[Slym]

It also increases the MTTH for cultural conversion

 

[Plasma Doctor]

AH, so the effect caps out at 101,000. ALl right, that explains a lot of things.