Free player question

Hello,

With all the changes over the last few weeks for free players I was wondering if free players got gold coin rewards for reaching higher war levels.
Is there a free player out there who can help me with this question?

Can somebody also please help me with another question.
What happens if I a free player take over a country with a pop of more then 20 million people? Do all the people die immediately or does the death rate just becomes very high?
Do I as a free player get a change to move population out of that country before they all die?

It is very hard for free players to win gold coin awards because the full member tag adds many points to the country index and improves its rank.

If you take over or purchase a country with higher population than expected in a free player country, the birth rate will be reduced.

This reduction will reduce the number of babies born but the population will not fall quickly. It might even keep increasing.

In fact, it can take one to two real months before the population goes down to the free country level.

I noticed recently that I stopped receiving cash bonus, does this has something to do with an error or have I reached the cash bonus limit

Bonus limits

You get cash and population upgrades frequently when you start.
It happens many times and adds up to several millions in population and a lot of money.

at some point it stops and you are expected to be able to make your country profitable which is not too difficult.

Making it extremely profitable is more challenging.