The extra weight for prestige goods shouldn't apply to Basic Food

[Heatth]

I haven't had this issue myself, but I've seem a lot of people complain that their pops starve themselves if prestige food goods become dominant in their market. The issue is tht prestige goods increase the weight for pop substitution. But because of how starvation and food security works, if a prestige food good (such as prime meat or gourmet groceries) is considerably more expensive than other foods, the increased weight will cause pops to spend extra money on them even if that puts them over the treshold of starvation. That is not a bug but it is clearly something that shouldn't be happening. Peasants and laborers shouldn't be breaking their bank to buy fancy gourmet food while there is cheap grain avaiable.

So, the prestige good effect on substitution shouldn't apply for Basic Food need, only for Luxury Food. Pops with over 20 SoL likely have enough money so buying extra fancy food won't literaly starve them. The only issue is Select Fish. Fish is only a basic food. The solution would be to make so Select Fish exceptionally also counts as Luxury Food, but I don't know how feasible that is.

 

[Rabid]

Alternatively, some special casing so that pops will always shift their consumption habits within the basic food need to avoid starvation as much as possible. This would let pops without a risk of starvation to still preferentially consume more expensive prestige goods.

 

[Heatth]

Alternatively, some special casing so that pops will always shift their consumption habits within the basic food need to avoid starvation as much as possible. This would let pops without a risk of starvation to still preferentially consume more expensive prestige goods.

That was my first thought too. The problem is that this would mean the pop would have to recalculate to see if prestige goods would be acceptable or not, which I thought would e an necessary performance drain. I figured a simple rule would work better to avoid that.

 

[Manchura]

this is a bug according to devs

currently pops are set to always demand meat if available and never change off of it should something else arise or meat production falls off meaning that they will demand an all meat/fish diet if they can get it then demand only the prestige form later then refuse to eat anything else afterwards leading to starvation

this is REALLY apparent in nations that have prestige meat or fish goods so most people reporting this are playing nations like russia. agentina. britian, ect