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Population reform?
Topic Started: Jul 7 2011, 07:53 AM (316 Views)
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I was thinking that we should use RP stats instead of the official NS stats, at least for population since the rest can just be taken as a relative number. For instance, there's no way that Byronmandy's map size with the given scale could support 5.5 billion people like the NS page says it does. At most it could support several hundred million and even that is pushing it, assuming that they are mostly concentrated in cities on the Iberian peninsula. I know I want to only roleplay as a heavily urbanized nation who has a population of around 18 million at most with about 12 million of those spread between my three major ciies (about 7 million, 3 million and 2 million, respectively). What does everyone else think?
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I get what you mean, NS numbers are rediculous ofcourse... I am growing practically 10 million inhabitants daily atm.

However, the only thing we use NS stats for is the military, and that will be problematic with your proposal.
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Empire of Monaco-Ville-Nice
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I think you can just RP as if you have 20 million of so people. I don't think any of us really RP as if we have 3 trillion people in our country. I know for me it's always seemed like an unwritten rule that you can RP whatever you want your population to be within reason. With the Empire in its current state I think the population would be around 160 - 180 million people and I RP as it is.
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I don't see how it would be problematic for the proposal, just multiply it by a fraction. For example, I have (at the last count of military troop numbers I had a population of 14 million) 33,600 active duty military (according to the formula used which is a whole different story and topic for another time) so I would multiply this number by 18/14 to get what my RP'd population uses. MVN uses (apparently) 170 million people as the RP population so to get the RP troops multiply everything by 170/3,646. Now I have to go to a Yankees game so I'll be back probably tomorrow sometime (EST).
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Well troop numbers rely on other factors besides population IE defense budget, culture of the country, etc, etc.... So I think that's another issue entirely that should be dealt with after you have the population figures... However I think population could best be determined by the country on an individual basis as long as your not RP'ing that you have 600 million people when in NS you have 10 million. I rarely have seen population numbers thrown out anywhere besides fact sheets anyway so I don't think it's the biggest issue we have. If we did some sort of formula it would have to be updated daily which just isn't practical. So I think if we set numbers ourselves and just make sure we police them to make sure they aren't obscene we will be fine.

Have fun! Hope Jeter gets 3,000 while your there. I'm a Red Sox fan being from Northern CT but always respected Jeter.
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Why not use real world populations of the areas that we own? I will probably RP mine by cutting Saudi's pop in half.
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I personally love the idea of Iceland, the UK, Ireland (and Denmark) being nearly at a billion people. It's both impractical and fun. But I'm game for however anyone wishes to deal with their state's population.
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I think MVN has a good point, just do whatever you please. As long as it fits a bit, and does not really give problems in RP.

I will stick to somewhere around 15 and 20 million atm instead of the 60 or so I have atm.
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Yes, the best thing to do would be just to RP what you think is best. I've never really thought about the population of my country too much. The only thing that I've really thought about is relative size based on NS numbers. For example, I know that I have more people than this nation, but not more than that nation, etc.

Yankees? eewwww.... :blink:

I'm a red sox fan like MVN B-)
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Knew I liked you for some reason lol :D
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