Increasing Settlement Populations

**TruePraetorian** · 01-26-2008, 00:01

Wow, wow, wow, weird...I was about to ask the SAME question after I was done helping someone else...wow...

EDIT: I took out my "thanks", sorry...but I was so excited and "wowed" as you can see that I only glanced at the info...

What i'm looking for (and I think Haedar is too) is how to increase the needed population to advance in settlement size. For example, instead of a measily 24,000 population for the highest population, what if the highest settlement size is maybe 350,000? Sure it would take a little longer but I don't like the idea of my Empire having a total population of 1 million when in actuality Rome had 1 million alone.

Also, if this is possible (which I think it is), how would one counter squalor and garrison bonuses? If the population of the settlement is 10x as much as previous populations, how can I increase Garrison Bonuses to 10x, and make it so squalor doesn't get 80% at the low 20,000's.

Thanks in advance, hope I asked the same question you wanted Haedar.

**Red Spot** · 01-26-2008, 04:16

if the "impression" of large populations is so important to you why do you go around it the hard way ...

when you want to up populations (wich isnt possible btw, so forget about it) you'd also have to retweak the entire population-growth system/(un)balance, so why not alter the ui and just push a few "dummy zero's" behind where the population shows, wich effectivly still is 24.000 civies for huge_city, though it would than say 24.000.000, where you've added ".000" to the ui-files ...
(not sure how far its possible, though I guess with a big enough desire to pull it off it is doable)

G

**TruePraetorian** · 01-26-2008, 04:28

Ah, desires not good enough oh well, thanks.

Back to my studys

**Haedarmkm** · 01-31-2008, 18:52

Hi their my idea to get a diffrent numbers of pop at a level of settlement for example to reach the last level we must have 24,000 population did we make this number jump up to 100,000 or higher can I do that.

**Haedarmkm** · 01-31-2008, 19:02

Originally Posted by Red Spot

if the "impression" of large populations is so important to you why do you go around it the hard way ...

when you want to up populations (wich isnt possible btw, so forget about it) you'd also have to retweak the entire population-growth system/(un)balance, so why not alter the ui and just push a few "dummy zero's" behind where the population shows, wich effectivly still is 24.000 civies for huge_city, though it would than say 24.000.000, where you've added ".000" to the ui-files ...
(not sure how far its possible, though I guess with a big enough desire to pull it off it is doable)

G

And what do you mean about adding ".000" to ui_files or how I can do that pleeeeaaaase tell me I need to do that

**Haedarmkm** · 01-31-2008, 19:14

Originally Posted by Red Spot

if the "impression" of large populations is so important to you why do you go around it the hard way ...

when you want to up populations (wich isnt possible btw, so forget about it) you'd also have to retweak the entire population-growth system/(un)balance, so why not alter the ui and just push a few "dummy zero's" behind where the population shows, wich effectivly still is 24.000 civies for huge_city, though it would than say 24.000.000, where you've added ".000" to the ui-files ...
(not sure how far its possible, though I guess with a big enough desire to pull it off it is doable)

G

And what do you mean about adding ".000" to ui_files or how I can do that pleeeeaaaase tell me I need to do that

**Red Spot** · 02-01-2008, 13:57

well several textures are used to display what you see in game, find the one thats used as background for when viewing settlement-detail and find out where on that texture the settlement-population is displayed and than behind that place the text/numbers ".000" (without the "") wich would than show a population of "population*1000" but is only a visual thing ...

I'm not even sure it can be done, just pointing out to whoever finds it interesting enough to invest the time that there "may" be a method ... but its up to the .. er .. interested ones to find out about the details and wether it actually is possible or not as I personally have no interest in a town with a population-level of 2-million ;)

G