Historical & Dynamic Population
Have you ever wanted for EU4 to feel more dynamic and alive, with real populations that prosper or decline based on your actions? Then this mod is right for you.
It completely reworks starting development around the world, to accurately represent 15th century populations with 1 development representing 25000 people. This means regions like China or India start with 3000+ development, while for example Europe and the Americas have drastically reduced starting development.
And this development is dynamic through 3 systems:
1. Growth: Keep your provinces safe and free of devastation, and they will slowly grow over time. (This happens through hidden events, so you arent spammed with growth events if you play a country like Ming.)
2. Decline: If your provinces get devastated, your population will die, meaning the development will decrease. Even a prosperous metropolis can become a ruined wasteland if it finds itself sieged and looted in a long war. (This will also happen automatically through hidden events)
3. Draft: If you run out of manpower, you now have an option to draft your subjects into the army, decreasing development, meaning in a costly war you have the choice between running out of manpower or shrinking your own population.
These three systems together make the game more dynamic, more historical, and more fun, all while keeping your experience close to vanilla, so you wont have to relearn the game like with other mods adding population such as Meiou and Taxes. Just safeguarding your empire might now strengthen you more than costly wars of expansion, and losing provinces in a peacedeal might now be preferable to losing an even larger part of your population through devastation and drafts.
(Please note that some provinces are owned by different nations than vanilla EU4 for example there are less french vassals, this is due to me reusing parts of an old historical population mod, since completely redoing population for almost 4000 provinces is a pain )
Please enjoy!
UPDATE 1:
– Cut growth speed in half, as many people pointed out it happened too fast so far.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
