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Prosper or Perish (Population Growth & Food Rework)

This mod disentangles Population Growth from Prosperity, Development and other (imo) non sensical things, now making Food the primary driver of pop growths and migration.

The old factors, however now impact food capacity and growth.

It introduces a sharp difference between Rural Food Producers and Urban Food Consumers, incentivizes local manufacturing in province manufacturing to somewhat break capital-centric "clumping," and drastically increases the cost of infrastructure to make/maintain Roads a strategic investment rather than spamming them.

In general you will notice a lot of growth if food storages are full in smaller provinces and BIG emigration and death when they are not. Everything is centered around this idea.


Vanilla: Population growth is not swingy enough, is too low, too dependent on factors that have nothing to do with food
Solution: The main driver of pop growth is now the currently stored food in the province, many changes have been made to facilitate this. The higher (hover over province food) the amount of months of currently food stored in the province is the higher your pop growth will be. Absolute population growth Scales linearly to the amount of food currently stored in province, NOT exponentially.

Vanilla: Pop Cap completely stops growth and is Waaaay too dependant on vegetation (farmland 100k inert)
Solution: To combat rural provinces to grow at a similar rate without any player/ai investment i reduced inet vegetation pop cap by a lot (for the big ones). And i made pop cap growth dynamic based on the number of staffed buildings you have in a location. This means a rural province with a lot of investment will allow for higher population capacity than one with no investment at all.
Additionally i made hitting the capacity much less punishing, hitting pop cap (housing) in a province will dynamically reduce growth and migration to that place dependant on how much you are over the pop cap.


Vanilla: Everyone spams roads everywhere at all times, ROI of roads is way too fast. Advanced goods are WAY too abundant
Solution (best i could implement for now): Road cost and maintenance massively increased, if you don't have the resources in your market you can't build further roads. Sadly road maintenance ducats cost is currently paid by no one (bug?) and it just creates demand. City buildings have increased gold cost aswell to stop high quality goods from being abundant immediately after 20 years ingame.


Vanilla: Food is never a problem, and can be ignored totally.
Solution: Food consumption is increased substantially across the board but especially for higher level pops. Rural locations are much better at producing food, especially if they are far below their pop cap (lore: peasants pick the best land spots first), still worth it to fill province with farmers to produce even more food.

Cities and Towns now receive growing food production mali based on number of staffed buildings build (idea is city grows, farmland reduces), in later game and with the right RGO they can overcome this, but in some cases and earlier in game it might not be worth it.

Depending on how heavy the winter is,pop food consumption in heavier winters is also increased (gotta bulk up).

Ingame you can check this by hovering over the province (food storage) it will tell you how much food (how many months) of food you are storing in that province, if that number is high your population with grow faster, if its low they will not.

Vanilla: It's always most sensible to clump 10 cities around your capital, because of control and market access
Solution (best i could implement for now): I buffed production efficiency of goods that use province-intern produced wares as inputs by a massive amount. This means it now might be worth it to connect a further away place and develop it to a city earlier, because you reap massive production efficiency rewards. Techs that buff this in vanilla are also buffed massively.
One more thing i changed to incentivice AI and Players to spread out more is to add a slight cost increase (currently 0.5%) for each additional building they build in a province, this makes intuitive sense to me as property prices should increase the more demand for housing a location has.


Vanilla: Totally irrelevant and bonus having it way too hard to use. No variance in food production.
Solution: Food storage is buffed across the board (also by development further), cities and towns have some innate storage. Sieged provinces keep their food storage, but if occupied they lose a lot. Your current food storage amount in province dictates your growth, if it gets destroyed or ignored, you are in trouble.
Since many factors change food production and thus your storage amount (including winters), heavy winters can punish you badly if you tried to not build up enough food storage.


Vanilla: It never is particularly good to export or import made goods that are of high complexity, because creating the product yourself benefits from severe multiplicative production efficiency boni.
Solution (best i could implement for now): I halved the required trade capacity for all goods that are finished products. This should incentivize trading them more.


Vanilla:Starvation already hit in vanilla.
Solution: Now it hits even worse, but especially your higher pops will lose status, also the people in the starving province will leave to greener pastures very quickly.

Vanilla: The ai makes way too many locations to cities and urbanizes to high pops too quickyl without punishment
Solution/Problem: This Ai behaviour lead to the AI urbanizing good food locations and then starving themselves badly badly in the midterm, while also not prioritizing food shortages particularly much, because it didnt matter much in Vanilla.
All of this is changed. Ai saves more food spots, build less cities, is rightfully panicked if food starts to get in trouble. All of this leads to the ai having to use a much larger part of their remaining labor force to produce food once it starts urbanizing, feeding the burghers in the city.


Since rural locations are much more necessary now I changed Construction Centers and Granaries to be buildable there as well.



Many more changes (building levels, building cost etc.)

Help and Feedback is greatly appreciated and I have more changes in mind.

In my humble opinion this is the greatest paradox game of all time and I'm absolutely in love with it.

Info: If you activate the mod in an existing save, local food storages will take a while to fill up, looking like every market is starving, after couple of years or so it should balance out.