Questions About Game News (Little Upsilon)

I care and I disagree with many of the news announced in the recent past. But I have decided to let things run their course and see how they would play out. My expectations were... nothing extraordinary and I haven't had one single surprise.

One of the things I disagree is this triple penalty placed on those that sell population. As if it wasn't enough to be forbidden to sell population when "worker groups are depleted", or the drop on birth rate that comes from selling population, now does there extra penance of emigration.

It is my best judgment that all three deterrences are unnecessary.

It would seem to me that these penalties are designed to lessen the attractiveness of piracy. This is probably a good thing for the aims of the GM. Myself, I doubt I would have put up the real money to get the coins that I have gained through swag so it may well backfire on them.
You could argue that war should be fought over matters of principle only, not greed (see real life), so don't sell your population, cultivate the country, bring it back to health, and sell on.

Just my tuppence worth.

Crafty.

It doesn't really lessen the attractiveness of stripping countries though. When I strip a country I remove all of the pop then dump it, penalties be damned because I won't have the country any more to worry about.

It just hurts players who sell a bit of extra pop on occasion to help pay the rent.

Over two months now since selling population. Outgoing migration from Paradise Lost is still at -15,661 per game month, even with a MI of 61.

I guess when they say "Migration numbers could become larger if the country was involved in selling its population in the preceding period," they are referring to the geologic period.

Luonnotar is entirely correct.