Populations and recruitment

[hacon]

Can somebody help me with these problems :

Are the city population growth levels hard coded or can they be changed and if so where?

Is recruitment of units linked to the population and if I recruit a unit how many of the people are subtracted from the settlement population? (eg if my unit size is 40, is 40 taken away from the population and can this also be changed without changing the unit size?)

[Squid]

Can somebody help me with these problems :

Are the city population growth levels hard coded or can they be changed and if so where?

The base growth rate of a region is hard-coded in the file descr_regions.txt, in order for any changes you make to this file to work you have to start a new campaign. Some buildings have effects which change the growth rate of the settlement they are built in.

Is recruitment of units linked to the population and if I recruit a unit how many of the people are subtracted from the settlement population? (eg if my unit size is 40, is 40 taken away from the population and can this also be changed without changing the unit size?)

Recruitment and population are linked only in that you need at least a population of 400 to be able to recruit a unit. Also you are correct in that if the unit has 40 men, then when the unit is added to the recruitment queue 40 men are taken from the population even the unit won't be built for a number of turns.

The number of men in a unit is determined by unit size and the values in the EDU file.

[hacon]

Thanks for the reply
on the growth levels what i meant was the settlement upgrade levels and the max pop for that settlement.
for example, I read in this forum somewhere that when the pop reaches a certain level it is eligable for an upgrade to the next level, and I presume exceeding the max pop has some effect on squalor, revolts?

city upgrade level 6000 max pop 18000

The file u mentioned descr_region.txt effects the pop because of the farm level?

Tribus_Brigantes
legion: Britanica
Isurium
gauls
Brigantes
232 41 198
fertile, furs, slaves, lead, barbarian, britons
5
5 <==========base farm level
christianity 100 pagan 0 zoroastrian 0


Thanks for the other piece of info, so its a 1 to 1 relationship which cannot be changed.

[Squid]

Thanks for the reply
on the growth levels what i meant was the settlement upgrade levels and the max pop for that settlement.
for example, I read in this forum somewhere that when the pop reaches a certain level it is eligable for an upgrade to the next level, and I presume exceeding the max pop has some effect on squalor, revolts?

city upgrade level 6000 max pop 18000

The file u mentioned descr_region.txt effects the pop because of the farm level?

Tribus_Brigantes
legion: Britanica
Isurium
gauls
Brigantes
232 41 198
fertile, furs, slaves, lead, barbarian, britons
5
5 <==========base farm level
christianity 100 pagan 0 zoroastrian 0


Thanks for the other piece of info, so its a 1 to 1 relationship which cannot be changed.

The population levels at which a settlement can be upgraded to the next settlement levels are fixed. The base farm level is the minimum growth percentage (without squalor etc reducing it) that a settlement has. That 5 in your examples means that with no buildings, no squalor, no farms, or other effects that change population growth Tribus_Brigantes would have a population growth rate of 2.5%. You can verify this by looking at the settlement details screen.

Exceeding a population level for a specific settlement size does not impose a penalty (aside from normal penalties to squalor resulting from population size), but building the next level of government building has a positive effect on squalor I believe.