Colonising affecting education/literacy increase rate

[pastornestor]

hello

My literacy rate increase got lowered when i colonized oyo and benin as greece. And I tried out other countries as well and concluded that it actually takes the population of the colonies into account for some reason. So the more people i colonize the slower my literacy increases.

I only have HPM activated with improved names and country colors submods.

I dont know what to do about the issue. I've reinstalled the game and the mod and deleted the documents/hpm folder and it still doesnt fix it.

[moretrim]

It would help a lot to have a save. (You can compress it, then drag & drop the archive into the comment box to upload it to Github.)

[Lys0gen]

This is intended behaviour.

While your literacy is only counting pops from non-colonial states, your literacy gain is determined by the average percentage of your intellectuals (capping at 4%). Since those states you conquered have very few intellectuals by default, your gain drops.

[moretrim]

While your literacy is only counting pops from non-colonial states, your literacy gain is determined by the average percentage of your intellectuals (capping at 4%). Since those states you conquered have very few intellectuals by default, your gain drops.

This initially left me confused so allow me to present a couple screenshots with explanations to hopefully clarify the situation for everybody. Let me know if this doesn’t check out.

If the tooltips hidden deep in the pop info menu are to be trusted, pop literacy gain is performed at the province level. Here’s 1836 Brussels:

What is unfortunate is that the national tooltip displays both national literacy from states and overall national literacy gain in one go:

• if I acquire new states for the country, both numbers in the tooltip will update accordingly
• but if I acquire new colonies, only overall literacy gain is updated since colonies don’t contribute to the other number!
• in either case, literacy gain in Brussels is left unchanged

Though confusing, this is ultimately harmless as for most purposes only state literacy affects concrete things like RP gain or craftsmen promotion rates. I also believe that tooltips of this kind are completely out of reach of the modders, so there’s nothing that HPM can improve.