Population growth after mass leave?

[Expired Waffle]

So I'm on the 3rd mission, and after the second attack, 3/4 of my population leaves, leaving no one to run my buildings.

I cant figure out how to bring them back. Any ideas?

[Augustus]

sell resources but not all, buy extra food and set it to extra rations to get population back fast. Or click the Zzz symbol on certain jobs whom which are not as important and have the unemployed peasants go to more "essntial" jobs. If none of that works, try restarting.

[Essyri]

Workers leave due to unpopularity one by one until it reaches its resting place at the absolute minimum of four. You will have to raise your popularity above 50 to get people to come back, how you achieve that is up to what kind of resources you got available. You can always use those four to rework your way from the ground up, time permitting.

Food will be your priority, get some in through buying or apples, apples come in really quickly and are the best to use if you got a really low population count. Set to double rations, low pop count means food depletes way slower so you'll easily afford the x2 food rate.

Are you talking about Call to Arms - Antioch? Personally if you're playing these types of missions and it comes to the point where your popularity drops that low it's probably better to just restart the mission and try getting a solid starting economy, restarting and try again until you get it right. Experiment prioritizing food, industries or weapons to see what the best effect is for each mission. You can afford sacrificing one in order to get the other two up and running first in most cases.

[ThatGuyYouknow522]

If you managed to raise enough money while your stronghold was succesfull you can go to the tax menu and give your citizens a bribe. I only recomend this while you have a low population because that means you only have to pay a small sum of money and then change it back to no taxes once you get it over 50