So.
Please bear with me until the end before coming to conclusions.
Yes, it's intentional as was reported back to you. Yes, we do understand the problem correctly. Yes, some things in this system are bugged, namely the missing impact of religion. BUT, even if we fixed the religion impact, we'd likely tweak the values so that the result stayed the same and you'd still not get other mass migrations than before with this set of laws.
The reason is quite simple: Because it would break the system in unwanted ways elsewhere on the globe.
Maybe some of you recall millions of Indians migrating to London in 1838 in one of the 1.8 patches? That was a very similar thing that happened there where the laws were not restrictive enough, causing a very strange behaviour.
It is very tricky, arguably impossible (as seen by this situation) to get the current system to feel right for all countries, for all culture combinations.
The religious acceptance playing a role was of course intended originally, but as we started implementation it was proving a lot more tricky than expected to get it in there, which is why we rely on the base value in most situations. But as mentioned before, the values have been adjusted accordingly to reach the intended behaviour.
I want to give some more context around this because I think it is important to get on the same page so that feedback becomes effective:
Just because it worked differently before 1.8, doesn't mean that it's wrong now. Our intention with the cultural rework was of course to deepen the room we have to play with. Instead of making it binary, we now have the scale on which acceptance lies.
60 is the value chosen because it corresponds with the threshold to the second highest bracket. The second highest bracket is also (not a coincidence) what we considered "Accepted" before. When all the narrative content was adjusted with 1.8, the initial pass was a mass replace to replace "accepted" with "second bracket/60 or higher" pretty much. And it has largely stayed this way.
So what I'm trying to explain is that the 60 isn't just a made up value, but it was chosen to reflect a similar behaviour. Under Racial Segregation with Migration Controls, you need to accepted basically. It doesn't always line up perfectly as shown here, but there's thought behind it.
All of this to say is that we'll probably not change this now as it would cause imbalance elsewhere, but that we are aware of the problem.
We have another opportunity to look at this with the release of National Awakening for reasons that I can't talk about, but it would likely still require a very much custom solution, e.g. with one of the new law variants which were not a thing before 1.9
And since that is the case, I also can't promise that we'll do it since it takes valuable time from elsewhere (as is always the case).
Hope that clears up some things around this topic.
Have a nice weekend, I'll check back in on this next week.
Please bear with me until the end before coming to conclusions.
Yes, it's intentional as was reported back to you. Yes, we do understand the problem correctly. Yes, some things in this system are bugged, namely the missing impact of religion. BUT, even if we fixed the religion impact, we'd likely tweak the values so that the result stayed the same and you'd still not get other mass migrations than before with this set of laws.
The reason is quite simple: Because it would break the system in unwanted ways elsewhere on the globe.
Maybe some of you recall millions of Indians migrating to London in 1838 in one of the 1.8 patches? That was a very similar thing that happened there where the laws were not restrictive enough, causing a very strange behaviour.
It is very tricky, arguably impossible (as seen by this situation) to get the current system to feel right for all countries, for all culture combinations.
The religious acceptance playing a role was of course intended originally, but as we started implementation it was proving a lot more tricky than expected to get it in there, which is why we rely on the base value in most situations. But as mentioned before, the values have been adjusted accordingly to reach the intended behaviour.
I want to give some more context around this because I think it is important to get on the same page so that feedback becomes effective:
Just because it worked differently before 1.8, doesn't mean that it's wrong now. Our intention with the cultural rework was of course to deepen the room we have to play with. Instead of making it binary, we now have the scale on which acceptance lies.
60 is the value chosen because it corresponds with the threshold to the second highest bracket. The second highest bracket is also (not a coincidence) what we considered "Accepted" before. When all the narrative content was adjusted with 1.8, the initial pass was a mass replace to replace "accepted" with "second bracket/60 or higher" pretty much. And it has largely stayed this way.
So what I'm trying to explain is that the 60 isn't just a made up value, but it was chosen to reflect a similar behaviour. Under Racial Segregation with Migration Controls, you need to accepted basically. It doesn't always line up perfectly as shown here, but there's thought behind it.
All of this to say is that we'll probably not change this now as it would cause imbalance elsewhere, but that we are aware of the problem.
We have another opportunity to look at this with the release of National Awakening for reasons that I can't talk about, but it would likely still require a very much custom solution, e.g. with one of the new law variants which were not a thing before 1.9
And since that is the case, I also can't promise that we'll do it since it takes valuable time from elsewhere (as is always the case).
Hope that clears up some things around this topic.
Have a nice weekend, I'll check back in on this next week.
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