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artemisia_fr 
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 Topic: How to increase population?
Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 16:30 |
hi all,
i saw a lot of people increasing their pop very quickly compared to me. So my question is : how to do?
1- By building. What kind of buildings increase the most the pop? 2- Others ways to increase pop?
Thanks;)
Edited by artemisia_fr - 27 Jan 2012 at 16:30
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Anjire
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Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 18:20 |
If a player has the resources and prestige they can use the instant build option to quickly increase population.
I would say up to about 3-5K population you should be focusing mainly on your infrastructure, mainly low population buildings like resource output. If you are too focused on population and build those high population buildings you will actually slow your overall growth later on in the game when you have to return to upping your resource output anyway.
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Tordenkaffen
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Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 18:56 |
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Artemisia - Ill have to second Anjire's post by saying, if you're really into the game and expecting to stay in the long term, you are best off by getting your resource plots as high as possible. It WILL make building infrastructure and newfounded cities much quicker.
Best of luck.
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Ander
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Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 19:02 |
common ground and blacksmith are two useful but cheap buildings that boost pop. they take a lot of time to build too - ideal to go when you are low on resources.
consulate is another high hitter - expensive as well as very fast to build. Increases your warning window for diplo attacks too.
mage tower is both expensive and time consuming - and your best defense early on.
For the first town, warehouse is perhaps the best building - it adds 10 pop level in a matter of a few hours as long as you have the resources. Also warehouse levels becomes an indirect prerequisite for other buildings that you want to level up.
focusing on population is a good idea in my opinion - as long as you don't build all unwanted buildings just for the sake of population. Build the forge only if you plan to use it. At 450 pop you can have a second town which almost doubles your growth.
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Rill
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Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 19:02 |
Infrastructure and resources are definitely the way to go, especially in the first couple weeks of the game. A couple buildings that add a good bit of population that are worth upgrading fairly early are the consulate and the mage tower. These are useful to provide some basic defense against thieves. A vault is a high population building, and while I don't recommend building up the vault excessively, building it to level 3 adds a bit of population.
Another high-population building that can be useful if you are not using prestige to instant-build is the Architects Office -- however, it is useless to build if you don't have the resources to support it, because it reduces building times and you will build more stuff. (Thereby also increasing population.)
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Kumomoto
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Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 21:12 |
 Rill wrote:
Infrastructure and resources are definitely the way to go, especially in the first couple weeks of the game. A couple buildings that add a good bit of population that are worth upgrading fairly early are the consulate and the mage tower. |
+1 to this. Spot on.
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Marquesta
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Posted: 27 Jan 2012 at 21:31 |
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Hi Kumo! Here are the highest pop buildings (doesn't include all T2).
Archers Field 1796
Blacksmith 1497
Book Binder 1497
Calvery Parade Grounds 1796
Carpentry 1497
Common Ground 1497
Consulate 1497
Fletcher 1497
Forge 1497
Foundry 1497
Kiln 1497
Mage Tower 1497
Paddock 1497
Saddle Maker 1497
Siege Workshop 1497
Spearmaker 1497
Stonemason 1497
Tannery 1497
Tavern 1497
Good luck!
Edited by Marquesta - 27 Jan 2012 at 21:34
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artemisia_fr
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Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 17:24 |
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thanks all for advices;)
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