Interesting thread...
Jondifool has a good point: It is easy to kill off province population, and pretty much impossible (so far as I know) to restore it. If it was easier to restore population in lands retaken from, say, Ermor, then that would lessen the impact of the depop dominions somewhat.
But then Endoperez also raises the good point that this isn't supposed to be a long-scale game. Turns are one month a piece. There's no way the population should rise dramatically through natural means over the course of the game. But maybe we could get some high-end spells that would plop a few thousand people down at the cost of a hundred gems. Then again, maybe there are such spells and I just haven't gotten around to noticing them yet.
I also really like love crime's migration idea. But it sounds like it would be harder to actually put into the game.
[ April 16, 2004, 19:36: Message edited by: Vynd ]