Kensai wrote:Yeah I know what you mean, but my question remains: if we say that France and USA started the game in 1850 balanced, have the US cities/regions not grown enough? If this is the case (the natural 2% of the game not enough) then we might indeed need to find a way to "inject" population in the USA in certain points (say, each decade). Population in game is very important as it is tied to market size, mobilization forces, manpower, etc. So we need to be careful before changing it, but at the same time try to portray the historical increase that for some nations is different.
So yes, perhaps ideally a solution to your problem could be a "colonial action" button that gives immigrants to mainland USA and can be used every now and then by you. But I would like to see what Philippe thinks of that.
Well I don't want to be hasty. I'm not asking for an injection of population. I just want the issue made aware of so everyone knows about it. And thank you for seeing it as well. I am posting some charts as I speak that can help you visualize it. Perhaps the devs can be consulted and see what they think.
EDIT: Oh I'm sorry I didn't even answer your question. I went back to 1850 and the U.S. grew from 110 to 631 (a multiplier of 5.73) and France grew from 441 to 1631 (a multiplier of 3.75). If the same multipliers are extended out to, say, 1896, then the size of the U.S. national market would still only be 3615 to France's 6116.
Let me work that out into an average growth rate though. As of right now, from looking at the F6 screen, I would say the U.S. has an average growth rate around 2.3%. this considering it is a time when the U.S. population should increasing around 28-34% every ten years, or doubling every 30 years. Mostly from immigration from Europe.
From the wikipedia, originally from:
Resident Population Data. "Resident Population Data – 2010 Census". 2010.census.gov. Retrieved December 24, 2012.:
1850 23,191,876 +35.9%
1860 31,443,321 +35.6%
1870 38,558,371 +22.6%
1880 49,371,340 +28.0%
1890 62,979,766 +27.6%
These numbers don't tell the full story obviously, because while this was a massive increase in population, it was also an amazing increase when compared to other nations, which were experiencing much more modest increases. Also telling is the sheer growth in urbanization, industrialization, and technology, which shows not only was it pure population increases, but also a smarter and much higher paid population increase as well. This will show in the charts I will post soon hopefully.