Good day to all here.

I've been lurking on these forums since I downloaded the open beta and I haven't seen anything talking about this so I apologise if I've missed a glaringly obvious thread relating to this.

I'm playing as Rome and having a thoroughly good time (best campaign I've yet played with RTW) but just recently my cities are getting way out of control.

They're all rapidly reaching the 24,000 mark and Carthage and Rome are in the 40,000 level and still increasing at a rate of 4.5%.

Are there plans to curb this runaway growth? Personally I think that only a very few cities should be able to reach the huge city level, and find it quite hard to do. The rest should be able to reach the lower level perhaps.

It's just that this mod does so much to add an entirely new level of realism that it seems a shame that I seem to have unlimited population for my armies.

By the way I am in 237 with my campaign and driving the Carthaginians out of Africa. The Punic war has been long and bloody - I've lost thousands of troops, yet you'd never tell from looking at my enormous cities.

When I conquer a settlement I am forced to enslave it or face instant revolt and rebellions there, even with full stack armies in place.

Anyway, I hope this doesn't come across as a gripe. I just wanted to point it out. It may be that you're already aware of this and are adjusting it for the next patch, or maybe you've decided to keep it the way it is.

Cheers.