How does one increase peaseant generation speed?

[H.E.C.U soldier]

I've played this game for more than a decade but this knowledge never seemed to be understood by me for some reason, I know it sounds like a newbie question but still has to be asked.

I know that it depended on number of peasant huts but that was considered an exploit I think.
However when I play with cpu enemy, they always seem to generate peasants much faster than I do based on end game statistics of the match.

So my question is. How does one make peasants spawn faster? Does the amount of peasant huts still make a diffrence? Or the amount of gathered rice and water increase the spawn ratio.

[Scorch]

Yes, the AI does have increased spawn rates.
The only way you can increase your spawn rate is building more peasant huts. In the 1.55 patch there was no limit on how many peasant huts one could build to increase spawn rate (your mentioned exploit), but with the current steam patch this increase is capped at 8 peasant huts. So no point building beyond that appart from storing more rice and water perhaps.
And of course the number of already present units does decrease the spawn rate, which adds to the AIs statistics of spawned peasant with its frequent attacks, resulting in decrease in population, therefore increasing the spawn rate again.

[H.E.C.U soldier]

Originally posted by Scorch:

Yes, the AI does have increased spawn rates.
The only way you can increase your spawn rate is building more peasant huts. In the 1.55 patch there was no limit on how many peasant huts one could build to increase spawn rate (your mentioned exploit), but with the current steam patch this increase is capped at 8 peasant huts. So no point building beyond that appart from storing more rice and water perhaps.
And of course the number of already present units does decrease the spawn rate, which adds to the AIs statistics of spawned peasant with its frequent attacks, resulting in decrease in population, therefore increasing the spawn rate again.

Thanks. A helpful response which explains a lot. What about the amount of rice and water gathered? Does the speed with which the peasants gather resources make an impact on population ratio?

[Scorch]

Originally posted by HECUsoldier:

What about the amount of rice and water gathered? Does the speed with which the peasants gather resources make an impact on population ratio?

The amount of rice and water gather by the AI is doubled, yet the speed stays the same (They gather the same amount but on drop-off they gain 30 rice instead of our 15, same with water).
For the player the only difference in gathering speed is that wolf peasants gather rice a bit faster. But this has no impact on population generation and vice versa