cities revolt too often - what can I do?

[Arcimaestro Antares]

I build always every building that improves the mood of the citizens, but when the population grows, they always start a revolt. Even cities with 20 units.
I'd like to know what I could modify to prevent cities with a big garrison, from revolting.

do you know how?

[Kiliç Alì]

Why not to to limit the growth, at least for bigger cities?

[Arcimaestro Antares]

I tried changing some value of the descr_campaign_db.xml


excommunicated_modifier float
num_units_modifier float
religion_unrest_modifier float

didnt' make any difference

while

heresy_unrest_modifier float

influences straghtly the "religious unrest", and depends upon the number of heretics in the region.

Why not to to limit the growth, at least for bigger cities?

how can I achieve it?

[Kiliç Alì]

you could make that huge walls have a negative effect on growth, but I'm not deep inside EDB so I don't know if it really works.
add the population_growth_bonus [a negative number]should do the trick, but I don't know if it can assume negative values.
OR you can make a script,in this way

monitor_event SettlementTurnEnd SettlementBuildingExists huge_stone_wall
and Settlement name [settlement]
and RiotRisk > (a percentage, it can never be > 40. > 20 should be fine, but it is better if you test it)
and GarrisonToPopulationRatio > (another percentage, this ensures you are rightly garriosoning it. Again, you'll have to play with numbers here)
console_command add_population [settlement] -500
end_monitor

you'll need to replace [settlement] with the name for each settlement. Pretty big script.

also exists a SettlementPopulationMaxedOut condition for intermediate settlement (of course it doesn't work with max level settlement wich don't have a max )

[Arcimaestro Antares]

I have found the descr_settlement_mechanics.xml
ther the SOF stand for Settlement (public) Order factor.
there is the SOF_EXCOMMUNICATION, SOF_SQUALOUR, SOF_GARRISON, etc...
modifying them, I may increase/decrease the public order due to these factors.

[Kiliç Alì]

nice find