Ox's "Who needs houses?" Achievement

[Hans Brotmeister]

I don't get what they mean by "without reaching max population". What do you need to do in order to obtain it?

[Archluden]

I imagine it means never reach a full population. Always have room for villagers to spawn.

Basically keep building houses so the max pop is never reached at any point during a game.

[vipersan]

I think the same. Just keep building houses before your last villager is spawning. Haven't tried it yet.

Would appreciate any notes if/when you get it. I have quite hard time during any game and often hit the population cap. I'm thinking it has a lot to do with my first choice of clan for this game - the Boar clan as their population cap is not entirely dependand on houses, but also on captured tiles. And my mindset just keeps returning to that, i guess.

Also - as I was reading the description, I keep wondering, if it counts only as clan of Ox achievement, or it can be done with any other clan. Can anyone confirm to get it with some other clan?
In a discussion with my friend yesterday, he had an interesting idea to try this with the Dragon clan, cause you can sacrifice villagers if you look like you might hit the population cap. I thought it was pretty cheeky idea :D :P

[Archluden]

The description definitely says the Ox clan. Might be best to spend your time with them :)

[Hans Brotmeister]

I did it. In the beginning I had to suicide one or two soldiers but I kept building houses - more than I could need. Also, I never built a brewery and got no upgrades that improve happiness. I kept my people in a constant state of misery. :-D

[vipersan]

Adam World Eater: Indeed it does. I don't mind that, I was just being curious. Because there were some achievements in the past that became available with new clans, but could be completed without them ;). I definitely will try with Ox first.

Hans Brotmeister: Congrats. Thanks for the tactics :).

[Adeptguy]

Originally posted by Hans Brotmeister:

I did it. In the beginning I had to suicide one or two soldiers but I kept building houses - more than I could need. Also, I never built a brewery and got no upgrades that improve happiness. I kept my people in a constant state of misery. :-D

Thats actually genious

[Hans Brotmeister]

Originally posted by Adeptguy:

Thats actually genious

Hehe, thanks. :-D Now that I think about it again, I DID build a brewery. I never used it but I kept it as an emergency backup in case happiness dropped too low and I needed more people.