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Originally Posted by Craig67
Your starting population seems high. A quick google search says for 2015 US population in 320 million. For a 1989 war date that number is 246 million.
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Agreed, I set it to something more realistic back when I first made this model, left it, and then adjusted the population without thinking about it. For now, I'm going to go with 325 million as my base - I want the war to be in the
players' future, as well as the characters'.
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Originally Posted by Craig67
I also think that the population will decline much faster in the first five years after the war. People are going to need at least that long to relearn essential survival skills (Farming, etc.) by trial and error. Many will never climb that steep learning curve.
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But
how much faster will it decline? I am trying to be quantitative here.