Why do no nomads to come to my town?

[L D]

I have a town hall. I've been waiting a long time (in-game time) and no nomads have come to my town hall to try to join my town. So far I've waited roughly 8, 9 in-game years and still no nomads in sight. Is it a glitch? Did I do something wrong? Is there something I need to have other than the town hall to get nomads? I need to get a large number of nomads to come to my town. I'm in year 12 of my towns existance. My adult citizens that I started out with are all starting to die of old age. So I really need a young group of nomads to come help my town strive. Even if none of my townsfolk were dying, a large group of nomads would be a HUGE help. I would be able to fill up the jobs I need to. Without more nomads most of my town might die out at one point. There isn't even many kids being born. I really need help.

[drakonz]

nomads need a lot of houses and trader from what ive seen so far with town hall after that its just up to luck (there is some % chance each year for them to show up however most of the time they seem to only start appearing after you reach 300 pop)

[L D]

Ok thanks for the info.

[Espadas]

Beware that you don't accepting too many nomads in your town. On my previous gameplay, it was a downfall to have that much.

[Xtorma]

nomads are not good, trust me.

[Incipientgamer]

I had no problem with nomads, maybe the hospital helped and that I put them, as someone suggested straight onto food production.

[drakonz]

my biggest problem with nomads is that they have no education and since my current education level of city is 100% i cant rly accept nomads as workforce since they would just slow down the village well i supose they could be good as breeding force and then just waiting for them to die off but i think that would take too much time

[AlP]

I got nomads twice during my latest game's 20 years (when my population was about 20 or less). That happened after 15 years or so, so just keep waiting.

Both times it was a single couple of relatively young people. Don't expect a lot of them.

[Tanzia]

Nomad requirements:

1. townhall
2. market
3. trading post

This is actually stated right in game help, under "citizens".

You do not need empty housing to get them, however they will require you to build homes for them, the number of houses can vary as your normads can be singles or couples.

[L D]

I'm stupid. I didnt know that I needed a marketplace too. Before I created this disscussion to ask for help I looked in the help menu in the game. Guess I didnt look under the citizens help menu. Thanks for all of the help!

[Xtorma]

Originally posted by liamrocks78:

I'm stupid. I didnt know that I needed a marketplace too. Before I created this disscussion to ask for help I looked in the help menu in the game. Guess I didnt look in the citizens help menu. Thanks for all of the help!

You are not stupid, you are just excited to be playing :D

[RedGeneral]

actually nomads strengthen my economy. I immediately put them to work in my crop fields and they boost my food production everytime. Plus their children attend my schools so the investment is their as well. At one time i accepted 60 and no dent in the economy :D

[Arparso]

You can get fairly large nomad groups later on. Largest I got offered was 49 nomads at once (adding to my then 350+ town). It's tempting to accept them, especially if you have problems with population growth. Be prepared to build lots of new houses and produce at lot more food than before, though, or else you'll have people starving to death in no time.

Besides that nomads might introduce diseases so make sure to have a hospital around. They also start out uneducated, making their adult workers much less worth than your educated ones. That'll have an impact on your town's productivity for the next 10-20 years until all adult nomads have died of old age or due to "accidents".

[Agonythy]

My town is about 20 years old, i have below 100 population, and had nomads coming twice so far.
Don't know if it's about ressources, but my town is well fit (always 9000+ food) and usually has houses for all familys. Maybe a boarding house is required....built it pretty early, that could be a reason.

[Bartender187]

to get more namads to come to u place build a bording house so when u accept them into town thats where they go untill they get accepted into a house

[Noppius]

No nomads so far but i did build that boarding house to give them a temporary living space. My townhall burned down after it was only build for a year or 2,so that might hamper the apperance off nomads. I also think that you need a nice food surplus on a constant base before they show up.
And when they do, they can disrupt your village wich "can" create a downfall in population. Saw some nice LP's before the game came out and witnessed the downside for excepting to much people in a allready struggling city. Fun time