What is the current population record?

[Coyote_ar]

On previous versions it was challenging getting over 2k .. but now 0.93 works great and population keeps rising with ease.

How far have you gone so far?

[hello2you]

Too many death loops...old age,exposure, and even dehydration..... I watched many citizens die from exposure in the city. I have over 2k of each article of clothing on hand. Over 50 wells in the city and people of dieing of not having water. With i have over 50k of water.

[Synopse]

Originally posted by hello2you:

Too many death loops...old age,exposure, and even dehydration..... I watched many citizens die from exposure in the city. I have over 2k of each article of clothing on hand. Over 50 wells in the city and people of dieing of not having water. With i have over 50k of water.

Sounds like having logistic problems, you should look at.

Originally posted by Coyote_ar:

On previous versions it was challenging getting over 2k .. but now 0.93 works great and population keeps rising with ease.

How far have you gone so far?

I agree that it is much smother to grow population now.

I play only medium sized maps on arid highlands so my numbers are not competitive.

[Commodus]

I couldn't get past 1950 with 0.93, death from old age were miles higher than births and immigration.

[Coyote_ar]

Originally posted by hello2you:

Too many death loops...old age,exposure, and even dehydration..... I watched many citizens die from exposure in the city. I have over 2k of each article of clothing on hand. Over 50 wells in the city and people of dieing of not having water. With i have over 50k of water.

Remember that just cause you got the item on your inventory, it doesn't mean people are getting it when they need it.
Distribution is a very important thing once you start having a big city.

[Coyote_ar]

Originally posted by Commodus:

I couldn't get past 1950 with 0.93, death from old age were miles higher than births and immigration.

do you have enough houses? that seems to help with birthrate. as well as +12 month food stocks.

Im currently at 3119 in year 95, with a growth rate of 54 per year (70 born/immigration and 16 deaths).
Its a big map, so there is room or expansion, allthough it started struggling when i passed 2600pop.
https://ibb.co/sv8NYmn

[Commodus]

I think my pop growth was just a beta bug, as I had enough of everything and all bars were 100%

But at the year 140, pop was 1978,

Growth 31 and decline is about the same.

housing is 1978/2608, so that should be more than enough empty housing.

[Commodus]

Not sure I would want to go miles over 2k thou, it takes 11mins to load that save:(

lol

[Coyote_ar]

Originally posted by Commodus:

Not sure I would want to go miles over 2k thou, it takes 11mins to load that save:(

lol

Yup, even with a decent PC its starting to take longer and longer.

Last night after posting here i went to play for some time ... something really weird happened. Suddenly the game went into "oh so you like your big population hun?" and basically threw a pandemic (i estimate over 500 sick, i can only manage about 120 sick at the same time, so 68 died). While i was managing to bring those sick numbers down ... a huge freezing storm, 91 dead to exposure. Add in natural causese, and in total that took out 182 (i was at ~3300 by then, falled back to ~3120) ... but i managed.
Did i mention i had all markers at 100%, and i average 300 medicine, 600 soap (12 markets stocked with 4 workers), and 2000 firewood? Never had an epidemic or major exposure issues before.

Oh but thats not all ... right after that, it sent a 800 soldiers attack with 4 catapults and 4 ramming carts on 3 different flanks. Of course losing 182 citizens took a toll on my defenses ... so yeah, so the game just said FU, go to bed.

Lets say i had to load an autosave before started today...

[Commodus]

Wow thats harsh, most ive had die, was silly villagers, they sometimes still run towards the raiders, I lost 45 once, I thought that was alot:P

[Coyote_ar]

Well, when i loaded the autosave the pandemic was just starting. I tried to avoid it by maxing out workers on all medical facilities ... Had an increase of casualties from Smallpox to 210 ... But i managed to avoid the exposure deaths (mostly) and the attack later on wasn't that bad on catapults (they still managed to get through the double layer of stone walls ... but kicked them out). All in all it was a preferred scenario.

2 years later and i'm barely getting back to 3300.

[hello2you]

How can you die from not having water and a well is beside your house? Die of starvation and a market and root cellar are two houses away?

[MedeaFleecestealer]

I'd say you got off lightly on the medical issues.

https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/all-them-old-timey-diseases/114893