From the games I have played in the past i.e Utopia & Elveron; our militaries could not excede the total population available or no more then 50% of our total population available. I feel by implementing the same here it would really shake things up and change the dynamics of the game for the better.

I like it.

commies could get into troubles.

no more destocking!

How so Marshal?

it'd definitely be different; could make an experimental server with experimental rules heh

My reasoning was there are no countries in the world that have more military personnel then its population.

North Korea has a population off almost 25M, but an active military personnel of almost 1.3M.
Israel has a population of almost 9M, but with an active military personnel of almost 200K.

This is not an ideal comparison but it gives us an idea on how to base the game when military is tied to our population.

Then again, it would just make sense to apply this to Troops, as a country can always produce more tanks/jets/turrets than there is military personnel :)

You can produce as many Tanks/Turrets/Jets, but you still need military personnel to operate Tanks/Jets/Turrets... so basically your population limits your useable military as well.

No need if just selling it, which I assume braden was thinking of regarding Commies.

i have been called many things. marshal, however, is a first.

One word: Skynet.

One choice is making Military size inverse of Population size, since Military personnel comes from your population.

If your population is low though, then your tax/production base drops because you have less working people to tax or produce goods.

If your population is low then your birth rate drops, so Med tech can be used to increase the birth rate though. In fact Med would be also usefull to decrease civilian/military casualty rates.

@Frybert: Skynet does not need Food... Humans do. Even with Robots you will still need military personnel.

PS:Would be cool though if the qzjul's Bots behaved like Skynet, then we can have a server where its Humans vs Bots

my country has the technologu where one operator, with use of a computer, can control my jets (read drones), tanks snd turrets.

also, troops? meh, i often die in wars.. :(

https://youtu.be/GGPIQ72-2Vg

1st of all they wouldn't be selling that much military as they do now and that way not getting mucho money.

even if country could have fluffload military but could only man part of those (let's say 40k) and only those would be effective in defense/attack and if country gets gs/br'd to low pop then that player can man only low amount until gets pop back and until then would be very vulnerable.

Realistically, how many drones can a one human operator with the use of a computer control?

Gov bonuses, IC production, unit/tech cost can be tweaked; plus smaller military means you would need less money to buy/maintain them.

Medical Technology/Facilities can help decrease pop casualty rates or help pop recover faster.

yea everything can be tweaked and that way rest of govts would get screwed.

it would be quite a big overhaul to change everything.

retalling bigger country could be problematic, country with 50k pop and ~140% weap attacks country with sub 20k pop (and 140% weap) so defender would have no way to retal attacker.

i don't know, lets ask rd how many single computers could dominate the game for seventeen years? (one?)
my calculator counts better than i can.. i'd imagine any other software might, i don't know, also streamline such effectiveness?

one word: mercenaries

So this guy wants to turn rep amd demo cashers into breakers, lol. I like it.

everyones mentioned it, but in RL there is going to be less people on the ground and more AI doing things, we playing countries are just the AI, and population is more for home based operations not for "grunts"