Advanced Gov't. Pop Rush

[Hard Charger]

Has anybody else ever noticed this one? Under Democracy, with cities trapped at a 12 pop level, and waiting for hospitals, etc., you can conscript units and dissolve them immediately to accelerate your construction projects. There's no side effect as far as I can tell, as the cities are able to immediately re-populate. I use this mainly in captured lands, where pop grows fast and corruption is high. When you're conscripting Mech Inf, it's a nice little bonus - you get 25 shields.

 

[BCLG100]

yeh thats because they have a granary in

oh and welcome to the forum

 

[bobgote]

it probably doesn't make much difference.

and welcome! may you have much fun on this forum! It's much better to contribute than to just read.

 

[BCLG100]

well it depends try and contribute good stuff not spam and such like which is pretty obvious i know but people still do it

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Welcome.


Just be careful that you don't overdue this. Your population will become discontent with you if you use the draft too much.

 

[bobgote]

Do you know any stats on the discontentedness factor? I use pop rush occasionally under despotism, and not a lot in communism, but would be nice to know.

 

[Hard Charger]

Thanks for the responses, and the welcomes. I thought overdoing conscription might have side effects; I also only found this useful if I happen to get the Pyramids effect as a reult of "war spoils". Seemed to be a way to speed up hospital, police station, etc., although it's also a great way to deprive oneself of even more sleep than the game takes anyway

 

[Rushton]

Hi Hard Charger!

Your strategy may be useful for those captured one shield cities but I agree that too much will make your citizens unhappy. I suspect the unhappiness caused when using this will outway, say, the happiness then gained by a cathedral got in this way in the short term.

Anyway, where abouts in Köln are you?

Paul

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Originally posted by bobgote
Do you know any stats on the discontentedness factor? I use pop rush occasionally under despotism, and not a lot in communism, but would be nice to know.

Hi,

I'm not too sure but I think that I read in the latest patches release notes that pop rushing, even only once per city, causes 20 turns of discontent. I assume this holds true for drafting as well. Thus overdoing either can lead to massive discontent rather quickly.