Population

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Turns | Mana | Geld | Population | Land | Items | Spells


Basics

Population also known as people, inhabitants.

Population lives in your country, produces geld and can be recruited to fill your army. Population grows by itself (Terra is a fertile world): population growth is based on current population, and its relative distance from max population. Your population cannot drop below zero.

  • Minimum population growth is 50 pop/turn + Current pop*1.015 (i.e. 1.5% growth percentage)
  • There are game effects that can alter the growth percentage (hidden upkeep).
  • When population approaches max population (within 90-100%), the growth percentage decreases, and when max population is reached, it is zero.

Population is consumed to upkeep certain units, heroes and magic (most black, some red, some blue) and by recruiting. Some army-units occupy part of your population space (recruits and mercenaries).

  • Population is housed in buildings and even wilderness can house a small population. Forts and Towns hold most people/acre. Farms are essential because they produce the food. You'll need both farms and towns to support population, in a balance of roughly 3:1 (see Status Report) This ratio can be effected by enchantments/uniques/heroes.
  • Population is a pillageable resource.

Game features affecting Population

Items

  • Some Uniques reduce your base incomes (e.g. hidden upkeep).
  • Some Uniques will destroy population each turn.

category:Enchantments

Spells

Heroes

  • Shepherdess ability "Peace with Nature" Increases farm output.

Gods

  • Satan god favour and most favour reduces army upkeep, including pop upkeep (by 10% resp. 20%)
  • Satan god disfavour and hatred increases army upkeep, including pop upkeep (by 10% resp. 20%)
  • Nature's Favor increases geld and population income.
  • Nature's Disfavor decreases geld and population income.

Attack Types

  • Pillaging will steal items, geld, and Population from the target kingdom, and destroy additional population.

Pop Spiral

  • A population spiral (pop spiral) is the situation that you have so many pop-eating units, that each turn you spend, you lose more pop, and you are in danger of hitting zero pop. You should get rid of part of the pop eating army (failed pillages, battles), and thereafter recover your population to a decent percentage of max population (90% of max).

Zero Pop

'Zero Pop' is the case when you have no population left.

In the case of fully depleting your population, complete stacks of population consuming units may disband themselves (in random order: you may be able to keep supporting some of your smaller stacks). Also as a cascading effect, your geld income will approach zero for quite some turns.

This is a severe crisis, because zero pop means zero geld income, means eating you savings... and at zero savings: you lose your buildings including forts and ultimately this is game over.

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Turns | Mana | Geld | Population | Land | Items | Spells