Your biggest Metropolis!

**desert** · 10-25-2008, 21:13

Yeah, but see, a lot of that is based on incredibly subjective data or unknown variables. There might be as much as a 50% +/- difference from Centurio's calculations for Pella depending on how you interpret some of the variables.

**gamegeek2** · 10-25-2008, 22:50

Wouldn't the female populations of cities outnumber the male population because some guys would be in the army? Of course, some of these guys would be married to some women in the city, but others might not be. Anyways, some of those guys would be killed, and so the female population would outnumber the male population. This would help account for the "extra" women who would be mistresses, etc.

**desert** · 10-25-2008, 23:00

It's probably better to roleplay this on a "big city, small city, medium city" level. Maybe research the region to find out some of the other major settlements and use their names in an AAR, or whatever.

**Maion Maroneios** · 10-26-2008, 01:29

That's some good thought there, Centurio. I must admit I did things rather quickly without much thought, but I will certainly try to deepen into this at some point. You certainly gave me a reason to do so!

Maion

**CaesarAugustus** · 10-27-2008, 02:58

Any tips on increasing city population (aside from cheating)? My Roma has decreased from just over 50k to about 39k over the course of a few years after the governor died (and that's with lowest taxes and all possible buildings constructed). Settling units and Expelling the population of conquered cities just makes the squalor go higher and causes the population to decrease more.

**SwissBarbar** · 10-27-2008, 14:17

Originally Posted by CaesarAugustus

Any tips on increasing city population (aside from cheating)? My Roma has decreased from just over 50k to about 39k over the course of a few years after the governor died (and that's with lowest taxes and all possible buildings constructed). Settling units and Expelling the population of conquered cities just makes the squalor go higher and causes the population to decrease more.

next time you sack a city, don't kill the population but prorate it on the other cities, maybe that works.

**XSamatan** · 10-27-2008, 14:48

Beside of buliding all Health-Care-Buildings I would suggest to build a large Templum of Hera, it offers around 35% Health bonus, and I think some buildings like Hospital, Farms and Aequaducts trigger positive traits, to speed up population growth.

XSamatan