Do provinces grow in pop without Growth Domain?

Juzza · #1 August 14th, 2007, 02:40 AM

I personaly don't like this, I think that provinces should increase by a small amount each turn, weather it be 0.05 percent or more or less, it should happen even without 1 growth and having 1 death rather than killing the population, simply stopping the gain, I mean, there are more than enough, spells and random events to decrease population and it seems kinda silly to me, that if your dominion has no growth that over years, the population may stay exactly the same.

Theonlystd · #2 August 14th, 2007, 04:26 AM

always annoyed me to..

Esp since patrolling ,events, can have an effect on population esp during a long game..

Acenoid · #3 August 14th, 2007, 10:38 AM

Hi there!

First posting after a long time

Don't have the game yet but skimming through the forums already because I have ordered it.

However this sounds really strange because as I understand it -3 is worst 0 is average and +3 is a bonus (or in case of heat not necessarily due to obvious reasons).

Now this looks like a bug to me and not like a "feature". Otherwise anyone has an explanation for this behavior?

Regards

thejeff · #4 August 14th, 2007, 10:44 AM

0 is the neutral state. No growth no death.

When you buy growth your population grows.
When you take death your population dies.

It's really very simple.

The devs have stated it's intentional that it's far easier in general to lose population than gain it.
The game takes place over a period of a few years, hardly time for a population boom to grow up.
And it's the endtimes. An apocalyptic religious war. People get killed. Lots of them.
Once a pretender wins, then populations can grow again, assuming thats what the new pantokrator wants...

Acenoid · #5 August 14th, 2007, 11:19 AM

Good explanation... Growth -1 = Death +1 I would never take those negative scales

I love humans

But how do you explain the OP test result that his population grew by 0.6 percent each turn with growth -3

thejeff · #6 August 14th, 2007, 11:28 AM

I think thats intended to be Growth dash 3 not Growth minus 3.

IndyPendant · #7 August 14th, 2007, 01:00 PM

Heh. Yeah, thejeff has it. Growth(dash)3.

It was just one of those Fundamental Laws (tm) of TBS games: Countries/Provinces/Cities/whatever Discreet Geographical Units a game has grows in pop over time. I was having trouble believing Dom3 didn't, so I searched the forums and came up empty, then checked for myself.

Nothing wrong with no growth, I guess; just somewhat counterintuitive. : )