Damned castles!

[ALZU]

ok so i want Ajaccios population to grow but the reproduce like freakin elephants. im at turn 117 and im just getting to the castle level WTF?

Also, i cant recruit units in Damietta (the castle by alexandreia) even though 90% pop is catholic and i have a governor in the castle. Im playing as Genoa

[Kazuhiro]

Convert it to city, the population will grow much faster.
Ajaccio is utterly useless as a castle, and it can make a lot of money as a city.

[Goofy]

Several things to do and notice:
-use cheats
-take a general with high chivalry there as a governor
-edit descr_settlement_mechanics.xml to reach upgrades earlier
-add grain resource there (I can help with it, just PM me)
-edit descr_strat.txt to statr with higher population
-build farms
-as TheKnightRoberts said, turn it to city for a short time; however, you'll lose your stables, and that's not fun
I don't discover anything else.
Btw Ajaccio grows really slowly.
With your Damietta issue, I can't help you. Post this to bug reports sub-forum

[Tyrenia]

Ajaccio is utterly useless as a castle, and it can make a lot of money as a city

I absolutely agree. In fact, it gives me fond memories of vanilla 1.0, where the naval AI was so hopeless that you didn't even need to bother with a proper garison, just enough to stop riots...

But I digress. If you are playing as Genoa, then you shouldn't need many castles anyway, as most of your best units will come from cities. As for the Damettia problem, I also can offer no assistance, save perhaps giving it to another faction, and then asking them to give it back. It probably won't work, but there's always the possibility.

[knight of virtue and valor]

chivalry man, I mean, I was playing Scotland just a while ago and I had a castle that was growing less then a percent, and I put my most chivalrous guy there, and it started grow live 6-8 percent. sparing those prisoners DOES have real benefit, you know.