Farms, food and population

[Yehoodi]

Got the game yesterday and am enjoying it a lot although there are a handful of things that i do not seem to follow.

For example,

1) How is food and farm production related to population growth?

2) I can not see how fast a city will grow and now sure if that is possible to see?

3) Do cities with more white control squares grow faster and/or "own" that square from other ciites?

4) if not 3, are the resources centralized and it does not matter if you have resources within a given city control zone as all cities benefit?

Any help with the above would be appreciated. Thanks.

Also did find the birth slider but do not know the direct effect on city growth from a numbers standpoint.

[Pavel-Ku]

Hello Yehoodi,
welcome to Aggressors forum. I hope you enjoy Christmas holidays!
Let me briefly answer your answers:

Originally posted by Yehoodi:

How is food and farm production related to population growth?

The food and farm production is not really directly related to population growth. Population grows per birth rate grants (either local or state grants). More citizens (and more units) require more food. Naturally with the population growth the food consumption increases.

Originally posted by Yehoodi:

I can not see how fast a city will grow and now sure if that is possible to see?

There is no way how to precisely "predict" the growth of the city. It would not logically even make sense. I would recommend to watch this dev stream where I try to explain the feature in depth (the link is already pointing to the part related to birth rate).

Originally posted by Yehoodi:

Do cities with more white control squares grow faster and/or "own" that square from other ciites?

Yes. The bigger the city the higher the population growth in that city. A small village growth (absolute number of newborns) will be much lower than the increase in a big city.

Originally posted by Yehoodi:

if not 3, are the resources centralized and it does not matter if you have resources within a given city control zone as all cities benefit?

The stockpile is shared, all the resources (from any cities or mines) go to the global stockpile and are distributed where needed).

Originally posted by Yehoodi:

Also did find the birth slider but do not know the direct effect on city growth from a numbers standpoint.

Yes, that is by design. I would really recommend to watch dev streams or at least the first one where I try to explain all the game features in nutshell.
Have fun!:)

[Yehoodi]

Great thanks for the help. :-).