so close, and yet...

[Roi du Culture]

Ok, so here's the deal. I'm playing Napoleonic Europe as France conquest on the regent level, and quite possibly having the best of my games on this difficulty level. All cities with 13+ population, conquered northern spain, italy, netherlands, western prussia, venice, and the entirety of britain. All cities have all improvements-i mean all of them. I check out my demographics screen, and quess what? i'm ranked third in literacy! now i have every single city chock full of education, with libraries, universities, and public schools. so heres my question: do specialists not count for any of the demographics, save the population numbers? I already know specialists drive down your approval rate, but this 2? Seems to me there are some bad consequences for large cities that should be taken care of. Maybe civil engineers should only be happy with a factory, entertainers with a colloseum, scientists with a library, policemen with a police station, and tax collecotrs only happy with a bank to maximize positive effects for good working conditions. Also, maybe all should need a university to be literate, to show the need for skilled laborers. Very simple changes for very big results.

 

[Longasc]

I realize that this is a serious issue for someone called Roi du Culture

 

[player1 fanatic]

As far as I understand Civ3 demographics uses a "legacy" code from Civ2/Civ1 for those statistics.
In that case, only libraries and universities determine literacy.
I'm not sure, but if you have them in all cities I guess that you'll get 100% literacy and get first place.

 

[Theoden]

I dont think public schools affect your literacy rate since it doesn't provide extra science. But why is this so important, demographics is just a fun part not having big game effect.

 

[Roi du Culture]

so, since i'm completely modding out my napoleonic europe scenario, does me making the public school help science output mean it'll increase literacy?