As Designed Victoria III - Pop growth is BROKEN, especially at 20 SoL

[Supamap]

Short summary of your issue
Pop growth is BROKEN, especially at 20 SoL

Game Version
1.2.7

What OS are you playing on?
Windows

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Have you tried verifying your game files?
Yes

How much "pain" is this causing you?
6

Please explain the issue you experienced in the most condensed way possible
The SoL is broken, i looked at the game files and there is an arithmetic error in common/defines/00_defines.txt line 1604, it should be +min_mortality instead of -min_mortality.

This causes death rate of 20 SoL pops to be about 0.4% instead of the intended 2.7%

Please explain how to reproduce the issue
Its just a base arithmetic error in the game files, you'll realize when you see that 20 SoL people have a much lower death rate than 50 SoL.

https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/136gili
this reddit post has images from it.

Is there anything else you think could help us identify/replicate the issue?


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[Froonk]

This explains a lot, fixing this should also fix a lot of other problems late game in regards to resources and unemployment. It really should be part of 1.3 at latest.

 

[Notme1]

Yeah was here since launch, made worse by 1.2, weird that no one caught it during open beta

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

Hi! According to our lead designers this is working as intended!
Full explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/136gili/_/jionvlk

 

[Notme1]

Its unbalanced then and any shifts can end up with negative mortality around SoL 20 - or it being highest point depending on numbers inputted.
Worker coop destroys pop growth as mortality doubles or even triples as average SoL nears 30.

It also strongly weakens decay of literacy, radicals and loyalists if most of pops are around SoL 20.
Workforce ratio also is slowest to fully converge too.
All mortality reduction also is nearly useless for pops around SoL 20.

This worked correctly before 1.2 rework - mortality trend was monotonic.

 

[Supamap]

Hi! According to our lead designers this is working as intended!
Full explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/136gili/_/jionvlk

Hi, yes i read his comment, but honestly not quite, the behavior causes weird consequences like healthcare not being useful, etc. This is not as intended and I explain myself in my reply. Anyways, fixing the arithmetic error and putting a correct formula for the SoL growth would be preferable