Demographics

[Taso_84]

Is somebody able to tell me exactly what all the demographics mean in the game.

It seems wierd cause whenerver u put your luxeries rate up, the Gnp goes up. mfg is really confusing too.

Is there a list somewhere that fully explains them all?

[Marquis de Sodaq]

In this or the Strategy forum (I can't remember which )you can search for the explanations. In the past half year or so, all demographic topics have had a thread discussing what they mean.

Hopefully the search will turn up the results...

[Alex 14]

Its somewhere at Civ Fanatics..

[Blaupanzer]

GNP = Taxes + Luxeries

The more complex formulas were all revealed in one of the strategy guides. As noted, CivFanatics has this somewhere.

[SlowThinker]

Taso,

Search for posts of William Keenan about a half years old. He participated in a research about some demographics formulaes.

Or ask him directly.

I see this question frequently, don't you want to make a such list? For example a mini-Info thread...

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[Ecthy]

Yes, there has been very good analysis done about Demographics, unfortunately not every point has been made clear yet, but most of it is revealed...

The only points I really care for in demogrpahics is industrial producitivity ('manufacturing goods') and population. if I see someoen else is being a danger for my population rank, I also look at family size which is an indicator for population growth (food surplus basically, I don't know whether the presence of granaries comes into account as well, it should)... but then, when in republic or democracy, family size doesn't really matter anymore... now, apporval rate is way more important for pop growth

population size doesn't actually matter at all, what is important for winning the game is industrial strength, and due to wise city management I'm always ahead in thosegoods in SP games... and in most MP games as well, no matter how far behind in population I am... it is always a good feeling to see the manufacturing goods rank is better than the population rank, it means you're playing with beginners who just had good luck in the beginning