
Consciousness below 4 decreases demotion in poor strata only. High militancy (7-9) reduces promotion. Higher literacy (each 10% increment) increases promotion and decreases demotion. Promoting POPs will ignore all lower-strata POPs from this Direction roll, so a Clergyman will never promote to a farmer.ĭemotion uses exactly the same two-roll system, except it rolls on the Demotion table in poptypes.txt to determine its Rate roll, and ignore all higher-strata POPs from its direction roll - so a Clergyman can never demote into an Aristocrat. This has no effect on the number of promoters, and the POP can only choose one direction per month - so you won't have 10 POPs becoming bureaucrats and 15 POPs becoming farmers from a single promotion batch. This is the Direction roll, as it determines which 'direction' the pop will promote - so it chooses between, say, Craftsmen and Farmers. This alone decides the number of POPs who will change from one type to another.įollowing the Rate roll, the POP will then roll on a weight table generated by its specific POP file. You can see the factors affecting this by hovering over the 'promotions' box in the POP detail screen. This is the Rate roll, as it determines the rate at which the POP is promoting. When a POP promotes or demotes, it first checks the tables in POPtypes.txt to decide if it is promoting (or demoting) at all.
This is counter-intuitive at first, and requires some further explanation. Promotion and demotion in Victoria 2 work on a two roll system, as do many of the other POP mechanics in the game.
For example, a clerk POP can promote to a capitalist POP or demote to a craftsman POP, or it can either promote or demote to a bureaucrat POP. When a POP demotes, it changes to another POP type of the same economic strata or lower. When a POP promotes, it changes to another POP type of the same economic stratum or higher.
All POPs promote and demote based on the same list of conditions.