Volume II
04-20-2006, 19:17
I've been playing as Epieros in v 0.8 on M/M and I've noticed that my cities grow at an absurdly large rate. I've got all of them on very high tax rates, and I still get high nubmers. Ambrakia, for instance, had a 6.5% growth rate (it's huge now), and now I have ungodly amounts of squalor. I know I'm supposed to specialize cities and such, but I spend almost all of my time building sewers and Asklepions and the like. I was wondering if this is supposed to happen, or if it is just a holdover from vanilla (although I can't recall having anything like this happen in vanilla rome).
It doesn't seem to make much sense that withn a space of 30-40 years, the whole greek peninsula could increase it's population tenfold. This includes the formerly Koinon cities Sparte and Athens, which were quite literally down to 450 citizens when I occupied them.
Right now I'm dealing with at least 7 cities with populations over 30k, and I'm findign I have to build craploads of akontistoi just to keep the tax rate at a reasonable level. I can't enslave populations because that'll just exacerbate the problems at home, and I can't exterminate them, either, even if that would help, because then I can't rebuild my armies in the field.
I was just wondering if this was a bug, or if anyoen else was having this problem. It's rather frustrating, to say the least.
It doesn't seem to make much sense that withn a space of 30-40 years, the whole greek peninsula could increase it's population tenfold. This includes the formerly Koinon cities Sparte and Athens, which were quite literally down to 450 citizens when I occupied them.
Right now I'm dealing with at least 7 cities with populations over 30k, and I'm findign I have to build craploads of akontistoi just to keep the tax rate at a reasonable level. I can't enslave populations because that'll just exacerbate the problems at home, and I can't exterminate them, either, even if that would help, because then I can't rebuild my armies in the field.
I was just wondering if this was a bug, or if anyoen else was having this problem. It's rather frustrating, to say the least.