what is "population" count info good for?

onomastikon · #1 January 19th, 2004, 04:21 PM

Thank you both. 1 gold for 500 -- thank you. I suppose Terrain Type affects this (or affects population?)?

Btw: how can I quote so that I can write "originally posted by..."?

Saber Cherry · #2 January 19th, 2004, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by onomastikon:
Thank you both. 1 gold for 500 -- thank you. I suppose Terrain Type affects this (or affects population?)?

Btw: how can I quote so that I can write "originally posted by..."?

1 gold per 200 population.

...and hit the "quote button"

mlepinski · #3 February 19th, 2004, 10:08 PM

A related Question:

It seems easy to make my population go down, but are there ways to make population go up? (Does population go up automatically over time? Are there actions that I can take to increase population?)

Taqwus · #4 February 19th, 2004, 10:15 PM

If you want pop growth, you should take a positive Growth scale, and it'll still be slow. Oh, and back off the taxes in provinces where unrest is an ongoing problem due to e.g. magical sites so your patrollers need to kill fewer people each turn.
I haven't checked whether magic can be used to affect this; the most likely suspects would be Gift of Nature's Bounty (for boosting agriculture), Gift of Health and Well of Misery (these two for reducing mortality rates). GoH I cast often enough to figure that it's probably not giving much of a pop growth boost if any.
If you really want to see more dramatic pop growth, you could mod the effect of the scale, IIRC; see Alex Poger's scale mod for an example. Generally speaking it's far easier to kill pop than it is to get it back.