Immigration

[Lab Monkey]

I don't know if I suggested this before, but instead of full culture flipping, you should regularly loose 1 pop point to a higher culture civ's nearest city with trade acces to you. This could be used to take into accoung war refugees also. I'd love the option of fortifying all your roads and ports with troops and ships to stop the civvies escaping (or entering!).

 

[Pachy]

the only problem with that is would they keep their nationality?

 

[Lab Monkey]

They'd be counted a foreign nationals (with decreased productivity) for a number of turns depending on the government and era.

I wouldn't go as far as requesting a system of racial tension from immigrants, as no such thing exists for culture flipping - the immigrants are absorbed into their new civ.

 

[john heidle]

I proposed something similar on the Apolyton forum.
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53003
Emigration, not culture flipping

My idea was similar to yours. There was little response, some agreed, others didn't.

My culture flipping proposal is:

1) Increased unhappiness in the affected city including a pop up window saying that those citizens admire another culture a lot.

2) After N turns, more unhappiness with another pop up window. This will usually result in population loss when entertainers are created to keep the population happy.

3) After N turns, one citizen leaves the city and becomes a new unit - a colonist - and appears next to the closest culturally better city of the different civ. That colonist can either join that or another city or start a colony, BUT it can not be a slave worker. This would be something along the lines of immigrants leaving to go to the 'new world' and create a better life for themselves in a different country.

4) Continued emigration until the last citizen leaves and turns off the lights, abandoning the city.

 

[Zouave]

Originally posted by Lab Monkey
. . .I'd love the option of fortifying all your roads and ports with troops and ships to stop the civvies escaping (or entering!).

Great idea for America, too. Send it to Bush and Congress!!

BTW, East Berlin never Flipped despite the fact that most of its citizens would have gone to West Berlin if not for the WALL. So Flipping is a crock; using troops to effect immigration/emigration makes sense.

 

[Ezekyel]

I like your idea John Heidle!!,,, and if you are small dictactor you can anhilate those traitors before crossing the border jejejej.