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I'm going to be really mad if the -90% fuck you you're dead Great Pestilence is hard coded to do -90% of the population and all these hospitals and shit are literally for nothing. It turns out I can't just build fucking hospitals, I need to upgrade my population centers into towns, then into cities, total cost like $1700 just to do that, and they need 20 development which woops I only realized in 1460
but hey I have 7 hospitals and with the religion bonuses that's like +30% disease resistance
real trip report: I kept savescumming because I'm trying to fucking get 10 warscore so I can make castile give me fleet basing rights but there's no way for me to get warscore while they refuse to send troops, and after the great pestilence it's like cool I have 4k levies now
Anyway, this is the population graph
75% dead, which I think is an improvement? I think the first time I did this it was 5.3 million pops down to 1 million? idk
jfc hospitals did basically nothing. Playing in the americas looks miserable right now
I mean I think the first time I had an absolute and total collapse of industry and this time I'm kinda recovering? It's just like 40 years later and my population has only increased by 300k so that kinda sucks. But hey, I just colonized my way to Tin! It's 1559 and time to make some naval supplies, yee haw!
at least castile hasn't tried to kick over my sandcastle after the first time, I was mad I couldn't get fleet basing rights but I ended up getting all the institutions anyway (and wrecking my stability embracing them all). White Man Proximity has allowed me to learn to dig out iron! wow!
P.s. yeah if anyone wants to do the math the first playthrough when I posted "what the fuck is this shit" I had like 5.3 million people down to 1.03 million, this time I had 4.03 million people down to the same 1.03 million. So, I think they definitely did something, it's just... I'm still so absolutely wrecked I'm at the mercy of Castile's AI. I think they see me having most of Mesoamerica as subjects and they're like "hmmm nah" even though they didn't hestitate when we had near peer manpower
P.p.s. the pestilence shit mostly just sucks because I hate the "knock you down and rebuild" in general, I don't like it from the black death either, but also with this it happens after the Europeans have recovered, so, you're kinda fucked