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6 years ago pesgores Thank you for looking into the issues! Now, about Q4, I have a few exemples from my current Portugal save that I have seen occur in all my playthroughs, across many provinces and states all around the world.
Example 1: Religious pops not converting to Secularism
- In the Mbanza province, state of North Angola, the Catholic Bakongo Workers can't convert to Secularism because there is "No Valid Target", which means, there is not a single Secular Bakongo Worker in the province for the pop to turn into. But this should happen and the pop should be created, right?
Example 2: Cultures not assimilating when they should be doing so
- Still in the Mbanza province, Secular Hutu Labourers secure all the parameters to be assimilated into Secular Portuguese Labourers, but they can't because there is "No Valid Target", for the same reason above.
Example 3: Tooltip lying about assimilation that supposedly occurs
- In the same state of North Angola, but in the province of Luanda, the tooltip indicates that a few hundreds of Secular Kimbundu Workers will assimilate into Secular Portuguese Workers every month. However, there isn't a single Portuguese Worker in the state of North Angola, Secular or Religious, or anywhere in my entire country outside of those provinces which had Portuguese Workers when the game begins. So the assimilation never occurs and Portuguese Workers never show up in a new place when they actually should.
All in all, the pop system isn't working as fluidly as one might expect. As the game progresses, provinces turn into a mosaic of rigid Pops who don't change much due to these technical issues.
Here you have the save file where you can find the examples I gave above:
pesgores There are numerous issues with pops not converting from their religion to Secularism or from minority cultures to Primary culture when they should due to there being "No Valid Target" according to the tooltip. During the 350+ years of gameplay, you would think that cultural assimilation would happen when you have 200 extra years to witness the demographic evolution.