100% literacy achievement is IMPOSSIBLE

[666]

Hawaii single state, all pops working in university/paper/logging, level 5 education. Literacy has climbed steadily at 3-4% a year to 99.98%, and has stayed there for 5 years, at a static 0.03k difference. Tried tanking birth rate through SoL, no change. Feels like there's a hard cap maintining the 0.03k difference and preventing 100%. Disappointing.

[DemonicSquid]

If you want to get the achievement play as Hawaii, or a single state nation in Europe such as Luxembourg. It's not that hard to get 100% literacy with some patience.

[Mob]

Hi Demon, the poster noted they chose Hawaii in the first word of their post.

[666]

Originally posted by DemonicSquid:

If you want to get the achievement play as Hawaii, or a single state nation in Europe such as Luxembourg. It's not that hard to get 100% literacy with some patience.

you realise there is 0.0% people with the achievement right? if you have it, please provide screencap.

[@rafamestizzo]

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[Rialm]

Chose another planet, send them there, make them vassals. and have a research agreement. and if they get to 100%, you annex them.

[CINARRA]

After trying for hours, I have to agree that 100% literacy seems indeed impossible.

The main reason seems to be that the game assigns some pops (smaller ones?) a ludicrously low income even though other pops in the same job seem just fine. It could be that they have too many dependants related to working adults, but that is out of your control. Then they are suddenly starving and lower educational access/literacy. The highest I made was 98%.

[n_brain]

its possible, but no idea under what circumstances.
-went with hawaii as well
-joined british market
-closed border (illiterate immigrantsare an issue here)
-decree for social mobility
-changed all existing buildings to university, art, gov, one powerplant, one electric industry
-all max institutions (especially welfare and education)
-switched to all publicly traded for extra investors etc

-> once apparently maxed at 99.x, switched all taxes to minimum and all funding to max + subsidies

next tick got me from 99 to 100, there are a few others that got it too apparently:
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[kgkong]

It's definitely not impossible.

State Religion, speed run the education institute +1 modifier research. YES take the penalty and research something in the next tier before finishing the tier before. It's technically faster to get the desired research you're after than researching the whole tier. This is pretty important.

Dedicated police force helps. Keep your pops from radicalizing. Radical pops are unproductive pops. Unproductive pops are undesirables.

Slam that SoL up high. And add a few universities.

Birthed pops take inherit a lot of traits from their parent pop group. Dependents of a pop group get literacy, SoL, dependent income, all based on their parents.

So that also means slap in a few universities. Academic pops have more literate children than labourers and peasants.

I've nearly done this several times over with Rwanda as my start, but I've never actually hard focused on it. The highest I've got was 96% literacy by 1900. Making my people all literate wasn't ever a goal. It was just a consequence of providing the most fantastic SoL that I could siphon every pop group from around the world. So as my game went to finish I was importing a lot of less than good literacy rated pop groups.

And two states is best for it, not one state.

[MP]

Originally posted by 666:

Originally posted by DemonicSquid:

If you want to get the achievement play as Hawaii, or a single state nation in Europe such as Luxembourg. It's not that hard to get 100% literacy with some patience.

you realise there is 0.0% people with the achievement right? if you have it, please provide screencap.

0.8%, not 0.0%.

[kgkong]

Food for thought...

Are the devout political group unhappy? If you get them to -5 and lower you take a massive -10% hit to education access and that can halt literacy gain remarkably fast mid to late game.

[kgkong]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2893198080&fileuploadsuccess=1

Exclusively focused on raising literacy to 100%, I'm 1881, at 90% literacy, it'll take at the current literacy rate climb without importing migrants, 9 years to get the last 10% needed.

Honestly not too challenging.

Follow my strategy for getting the achievement quickly and easily. It 100% works.

Speed run research to get level 3.
Pump up your economy slightly and build up a few universities. Research a few things you need to slowly start industrializing.
Keep devout from going unhappy.
From here you focus on getting Human Rights researched.
All the while enacting legislation that lets you setup Religious Schools or Public Schools (religious is faster to do than Public Schools).
Sit back, collect rewards, get achievement.

I'll post proof I got the achievement.

[LzDK14]

Originally posted by KingGorillaKong:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2893198080&fileuploadsuccess=1

Exclusively focused on raising literacy to 100%, I'm 1881, at 90% literacy, it'll take at the current literacy rate climb without importing migrants, 9 years to get the last 10% needed.

Honestly not too challenging.

Follow my strategy for getting the achievement quickly and easily. It 100% works.

Speed run research to get level 3.
Pump up your economy slightly and build up a few universities. Research a few things you need to slowly start industrializing.
Keep devout from going unhappy.
From here you focus on getting Human Rights researched.
All the while enacting legislation that lets you setup Religious Schools or Public Schools (religious is faster to do than Public Schools).
Sit back, collect rewards, get achievement.

I'll post proof I got the achievement.

Oooh, someone is in for a nasty suprise!

[kgkong]

Originally posted by LzDK14:

Originally posted by KingGorillaKong:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2893198080&fileuploadsuccess=1

Exclusively focused on raising literacy to 100%, I'm 1881, at 90% literacy, it'll take at the current literacy rate climb without importing migrants, 9 years to get the last 10% needed.

Honestly not too challenging.

Follow my strategy for getting the achievement quickly and easily. It 100% works.

Speed run research to get level 3.
Pump up your economy slightly and build up a few universities. Research a few things you need to slowly start industrializing.
Keep devout from going unhappy.
From here you focus on getting Human Rights researched.
All the while enacting legislation that lets you setup Religious Schools or Public Schools (religious is faster to do than Public Schools).
Sit back, collect rewards, get achievement.

I'll post proof I got the achievement.

Oooh, someone is in for a nasty suprise!

Not really. I'm not blasting a lot of farms with low pop group classes taking up a good chunk of state demographic. I'm providing good access to SoL improvements. Higher SoL keeps from the pop group developing slower or lower literacy rates.
I'm actually gaining even more literacy per week that if no changes occur (from events) I should actually get the achievement before 1900. But I'll leave some headroom in there for a sudden population spike from births that might take me an extra couple of years.

[666]

FYI the patch fixed the issue (small pops).