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TheSquid -> RE: Let us prioritize workplaces (1/9/2021 6:29:29 AM)
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IMO the primary issue here seems to be the simple fact that the situation is a reverse of what it should be, i.e. the problem SHOULD be "we need to rebuild this city that's we reduced to rubble during the conquest, how do we convince people to move there and help out?".
As it now stands, the above isn't even a concern, because it seems that people from all over the empire are just itching to move far away to a (probably mostly lawless) hell-hole to take up a job in construction - so we get the opposite problem, which is how to stop all the cities that are currently working well from economic collapse due to the vast exodus.
Given the above, the most logical "fix" for this, is for things to be tweaked such that the "concern" for players is incentivising people to help rebuild the newly-conquered territory, and not trying to stop people from doing that. Possible ways to achieve this:
* The default situation for a worker should be to stay where they are.
* If they are not currently in "hardship", then the "new" potential workplace needs to offer something extraordinary for people to even consider migration, let alone actually leaving everything behind and heading there.
* "Not currently in hardship" would be all of the following to be true: currently employed; have enough to eat (no current or imminent starvation levels); not about to die due to radiation, toxins, etc.; no vast enemy very close (danger). Political issues (e.g. type of Government) shouldn't be a factor since this is the same regime.
* For people to want to move due to hardship, the new zone would naturally need to be an improvement over the current zone in these areas.
* People who are not currently employed in a location could still be highly likely to move (not having work is a big motivator). Ideally the new location would be requiring more jobs that the currently available population, and also be offering better pay (tax status of the new zone could factor in a bit, since non-incorporated zones pay less/no tax).
* "Something extraordinary" would be things that the player actually needs to do, in order to entice people (hardship notwithstanding). Which would mainly be offering better pay (the private industry pay would likely auto-adjust based on supply and demand of the population, so only public pay could really be influenced by the player - however one would expect there to be little private industry initially in territory that only recently was a warzone, especially if what's there of the population is being absorbed by public workplaces).
* Recruiting colonists, and transporting people there, would naturally still be an option if incentives fail.
Currently it appears that even workers gainfully employed appear willing to drop everything to start a new life in a recently-conquered rubble-strewn hell-hole - so there must be something seriously wrong with the migration calculations somewhere.
So generally, I would expect only people who are available (i.e. not already employed) would even be considering going anywhere, unless the current conditions are really bad, or the new location is offering an absolutely incredible opportunity.
Thinking about events on Earth, generally anything less than a gold rush wouldn't cause this kind of mass migration - and even then, it's not like entire industries from the host countries would collapse due to everyone leaving (real estate being the obvious exception, but even that wasn't a collapse).
tl;dr:
* It should be more effort to convince people to migrate to a newly-conquered territory;
* the default situation should be for people to want to stay where they are;
* Getting people to move should require massive incentives, raising colonists and moving them, or severe hardship in the origin zone.
* People that are currently employed and not in hardship shouldn't even consider moving; only the currently unemployed should be thinking about new opportunities (unless the potential income difference is incredibly large, or they're currently in an otherwise awful situation).
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