Student/Child Ratio for sustained population?

[Reiia]

Hmmm Noticed that if i tried to keep my population stagant without building houses, i will enter a period where all my people are dying off and not having enough children. Due to the effect where children lives with their parents and by time the parents die, they are pretty old to start raising their own children.

I was wondering if anyone has a ratio like Student/Children they aim to have at all times. I haven't figured out what is a golden ratio for my settlement, however i have a feeling that there should be a range "aimed" for by slow expansion of houses to accomedcate a slow postive growing population and avoid "draughts" and "surges". Just a huntch that there is a magic ratio to aim for that will supply new educated workers to your dying force without "baby boomers" effect followed by "billion deaths of old people"

At the moment i fix my "draughts" with nomads... since im too lazy to figure out my ratio. lol

Year 110 and my population was 250, dropped down to 160. Where are those nomads. xD

[LIMB0]

My ratio is 20 student / 30 children. If children drops bellow 20 i build 3/4 houses. But i allways keep resources 50% above needed, to maintain this. I also trade food and firewood surplus for types of food i don't have (even if i produce it), because i think food variety (and alcholl) boosts childrens birth.
I expand by multiplying my ratio. (40/60 and so on...)

[Zedd]

I was just slowly building houses untill around year 12. ( 2 houses each year )
At year 12 my first villagers started to die of old age making room of the new adults.
I'm hoping this will keep the population steady, ofcourse certain side effect can kill off more villagers than i actually want.

Atm i have a ratio of 20 students 28 children. Now it's just a gamble if this will last.
Time will tell.

[Ric]

Can't seem to work out a ratio myself. In my current town, my numbers are approx. 350/60/90 as I build too fast :P

No adult shortages for me in years to come! lol...

[Jørgen Oktober]

I aim for a steady 25% of grown population, but that may turn into less.

[Glaeneator2000]

about 30-40% in my town is children and students.

[Saccharide]

I try to keep 20/30 as well with a total population of 250-300. But like most people here, we eyeball it. I usually wait for 2-3 deaths before I build a house.

[Black★Rock Shooter]

as long as roughly 25% are children/students you should be okay.

However I assure you with current mechanics its impossible to "hold steady" on a population. The way it works for a household to have new children causes the town to exspand past its own resource limitations. The only viable way I have made a "sustained" population is having dozens of extra homes after filling out a large map. I keep around 80-100 laborers just doing what ever while the rest of the town works to keep it going.

[Silenus]

i dont understand... shouldnt a "hold steady" be possible when you consider villagers dieing of old age which frees up their houses?

[Undead Llama]

Silenus,

Not exactly - you also have to consider that widowers remain in the house till the day they die, essentially blocking pop replishment. It'd be nice if village elders moved into the longhouse upon widowing, but currently, that doesn't happen.

(My last village of ~170 underwent massive adult depopulation, as 1/3 of all possible living space was occupied by widowers, and no-one living in my two longhouses)

[Reiia]

maybe a mod later on will allow us to build a nursing home for the ones who are over age 80, so they can move out and free up the house, or something

[Hex Welsh]

Originally posted by Reiia:

maybe a mod later on will allow us to build a nursing home for the ones who are over age 80, so they can move out and free up the house, or something

Figure out what they do
Clear the job role of that job
They will be a labourer
Slowly refill and check each time if they have been reassigned
repeat untill most of them are correct
send the small smount of old ass labourers to the end of the map during winter

[ÐC]

if you dont expand and your birthrate drops, check for house with only 1 person, delete them ;) problem solved..

[ÐC]

and btw

Originally posted by Voidhawk:

Silenus,
and no-one living in my two longhouses

boarding houses ? they are temporaly and only used until a "normal" house is free

[Undead Llama]

dcb;

I am aware of what the longhouse/boarding house currently does, what I was saying is it'd be nice if it did something more than provide overflow relief, and acted more like the social hub it would have in days of yore.

[Romeo Deluxe]

Originally posted by dcbaby:

if you dont expand and your birthrate drops, check for house with only 1 person, delete them ;) problem solved..

This doesn't always work. Flipping houses doesn't either, i.e. destroy a house, build another one in another location.