The 100,000 population club

Exactly, and that's why I'm not destroying what are actually well-designed cities just to rebuild them for achieving 230k pop, then be unable to rebuild them as effective cities without losing one anyway.  This is a problem I'm confident will solve itself eventually.

Erm, the "exactly" refers to Brids17's post, not Llyorn's ever-effluent praise.  (This sucker's always trying to butter me up...I watch my back. )


Edited by HonoredMule - 09 Apr 2011 at 13:44

HonoredMule wrote: My 7/3 split cities are woefully under-capable in the sovereignty department.  Istan gains 63 wood per hour with a maxed out carpentry, leaving no income for even keeping equipment queues up, let alone extending population.  Were it not for the limits imposed by research income, I would run Istan into the ground for population and troops alone in my quest for city # 10. ...that is, of course with sovereignty used for something besides food and wood.  It was never my intent, after all, to be some kind of immortal Illyriad retiree, relegated to Sim City-like existence.  One thing I'm very tired of is trading resources with myself.

63 wood? That's just...well, terrible. You must have some maxed out sov spots though? Either that or like 50 sov spots.

I'm willing to bet eventually obtaining 10 cities will be easier. It seems impractical for the GMs to have a feature that is nearly unobtainable. Plus there's been mention of possibly fishing for food with the introduction of boats so perhaps that will make it easier to achieve.

Indeed I do.   If I were going that route, I'd have to siege most of my cities, which--aside from the struggle of achieving city #10--are well-designed for economic and military output.  And while I can't plan around speculative updates, it would be a colossal waste if something like naval features rendered my sacrifice moot.

So for me, it's staid and steady to finish the course.

My 7/3 split cities are woefully under-capable in the sovereignty department.  Istan gains 63 wood per hour with a maxed out carpentry, leaving no income for even keeping equipment queues up, let alone extending population.  Were it not for the limits imposed by research income, I would run Istan into the ground for population and troops alone in my quest for city # 10.

...that is, of course with sovereignty used for something besides food and wood.  It was never my intent, after all, to be some kind of immortal Illyriad retiree, relegated to Sim City-like existence.  One thing I'm very tired of is trading resources with myself.


Edited by HonoredMule - 08 Apr 2011 at 21:17

But, there will be a trade off, larger towns have smaller armies!