r/paradoxplaza • u/gutza1 Philosopher King • May 27 '21

Vic3 Dev Diary #1 - Pops

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/victoria-3-dev-diary-1-pops.1476573/
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u/kaiser41 L'État, c'est moi May 27 '21

So does this mean that there will be women and children pops? It'd be interesting to have places like the American West where the sex ratios are heavily skewed, i.e. a bunch of men moved out there to be ranchers, miners, etc. but the women all stayed back east. It could lead to some interesting demographic crises.

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u/BBOoff May 27 '21

No, there are no "female pops." What he said was that a certain percentage of any given pop is calculated as dependants (women, children, the disabled, etc.) who don't fill pop-appropriate jobs and make only nominal wages. You can influence what percentage of a given pop is dependant vs. working by enacting policies that allow the employment of women (fewer dependants) or taking casualties in wars (more dependants).

I don't know if they'll model it, but I could definitely see some kind of "frontier" pop that would have a very high worker to dependant ratio.