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Old November 18th, 2005, 05:59 AM
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Default Re: What it will take for me to purchase Dom III

.. oh, great, forum ate a lengthy post of mine again.. so I'll keep it short this time:

Large Farmland: av. 18782pop, max 21.5k pop
Normal Farmland: av. 121250 pop, max. 14.4k pop
Small Farmland: av. 5557 pop, max. 7.2k pop

=> "Large" is +50% pop, "Small" is -50%

Normal Plains: av. 7921 pop, max. 9.1k pop

=> "Farm" is +50% pop

I'll add more numbers as I get to it ... .


And if that was a question, Endo, ye, those modifiers are cumulative. So with a small swamp/waste province you can get really ridiculous low pop levels..

What we can see from the above is - there's no way to get near the pop numbers of DomPPP, and something like that should only occure deliberatly .. should have been very obvious in the very first test game at the latest.

And check the maps which come with the game - lots of 'normal plains' and worse provinces. No, I don't think the devs ruined the gold economy by accident. Very much like they didn't overlook that there are no events which generate pop, but many which kill it. It's their/the games attitude.

What gets me back to the topic:
I don't like that. As I don't like the fact that the AI still cannot build castles and commanders from sites, chooses heavy death scale to often and has no clue about supplies - therefore crippling itself very effectivly. What I don't like even more is the fact, that the devs know about this very well but are not willing to fix it ... .
What that tells about me purchasing DOM3? Oh well, guess yourself ...

edit: typo
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