Population decline

On a request in another discussion, I have checked birth and death rates when population is very large.

It is quite hard to reduce death rates in large countries.
Probably too hard.

we will make a small change next week and tune it.
After reviewing results, we may tune again.

In all cases:
If population is very important to you, and it should be,
it makes sense to increase the health index.

Andy on "Westeros" my main on KB, I have a health index of 125 and I am losing 130,000 population per game month. I've lost over 10M population over the last 2 weeks in return health index has gone up a bit but the death rate is still climbing. It started increasing rapidly out of nowhere Westeros was always -9,000 population monthly for 2 real life month. Then something happened and here I am losing 130,000 monthly just in one country. Mind you i have about 5 other countries losing 100,000 per game month. One of my smaller countries "Ashville" is now losing 10,000 population monthly and this is a small country with 68,000 population this shouldn't be happening.

I have a country with 115 Mil and I am loosing 35K a month. Before it was 15K. Health is almost 170. How much health do we need.
LE 107. Falling working people and rising SSI people. Where is the 1.66 mil dead old folks.
Why does working people fall and SSI people rise?

Andy, how come you set the peaceful game at Level 16 with 280 Health Index with the Finance of 220? How are we suppose to achieve this goal?

I personally believe there needs to be a compensation for this occurance. Players have lost more then some game cash; and should be compensated for population/GC someway as this is not a fair way to purge out players assets, like other players have pointed out with decreasing military value to devalue larger players.

And king; i do not believe that is achieveable, just a good billing to show what might a last level look like, instead of ending at a reasonable level. Just have it for kicks really, since it will end before such.

Andy,

Two things,

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First,
I run 180 healthcare index in 216M population country and it does almost nothing. In all honesty the Healthcare should have MUCH more power. May I recommend that the healthcare index should be a direct reflection of population?

100 health index = 100M pop cap
300 Health index = 300M pop cap

Doing this would highly encourage huge index's and stable nations. It would also require a player to have massive empires behind the nation which would help the markets and even the war game.
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Second,

Also I agree with Anthony.
You know I'm happy to support you guys in your latest changes, but this has caused a lot of hardship among some players. I myself have lost almost 15M pop in one nation because of this issue. I'm not going to throw a hissy fit demanding that I be compensated in full, but I do think something should be done on the GM's end to help the lower level players.
I think as a statement of good will the GM should throw a few GC the players way. Might I suggest that only -FULL MEMBERSHIP- players get a one time gift of 10 or 20GC? That really isn't enough to do anything to W3C bottom line, but it would help the lower level players.
I don't care personally if I get anything it doesn't matter to me. Mistakes happen and I'll weather the storm so to speak. However, to the smaller empires or players this issue has caused damage and I think a few GC to recover their losses isn't unreasonable,

Hope all is well at the office,
Super

I also recommend what Super said about the Health Index growth and it also tends to be very costly at High End Gaming population which I never had in the past accounts I had because I had some problems with the game. But at the moment I intend to stick with the account and let it grow with population booster along way but the thing is, the cost of maintaining health index is very high and it hurts the economy cost.

I can imagine that having 300M pop will cost like 600B per month maintenance I'm just guessing the numbers but as of right now its costing over 3B per month with 16M pop along with welfare index and its cost is also high, with all due respect, we believe that you can change the game mechanics and fix the issue that's erupting the economy growth and in the mean time I had to cut the tax back to zero in order to use the sharemarket by IPOíng them to get more income.

But the sharemarketing is losing it's profits through the Dividend income it has been going down over time slowly not gaining, this also needs to be addressed if you could take a look at it please. In the mean time, I am trying to get the Finance Index as high as possible with low monthly cost.

Thanks, Anthony.