So... how to increase your citizen population now?

[anarnam]

Since population of citizens is based on the amount of cities, how is it possible if you play a fast growing tribe? Previously you could use all the power to spam more citizens (I'm not saying that it was good - but it was a kind of solution). Right now, by quickly expanding my empire's borders, I'm heavily lacking in citizens. I don't have enough gold to spam cities quickly, nor the political power.

And I'm playing as an iberian tribe (democratic by now).

The question remains - how to increase the speed of citizen (i.e. research point) growth?

[Ghost Of Capybara]

Have yet to play a tribe since Cicero, but I would guess that tribes won't be advancing much if any at all unless they focus fully on getting citizens. I know monarchies have the ability to get more citizens per city, all that jazz. Don't know what tribes get.

[XuanKamoFurio]

If you are a tribe you will have a bad time promoting citizens. you better are a republic or a monarchy

You need:


- to use the civilization effort policy <-------- This could be bugged, because before the patch the tribemen quickly demoted promoted

- to build academies and libraries

- to surplus trade LIVESTOCK in your capital to get the promotion bonus <------ This game is so dead that no even the wiki is actualized.

- to use CENTRALIZATION policy to be more efficient in the cities <------ shamefully this is bugged and paradox doesn't care about it

Also if paradox even bothers fixing this bug, you need to move your province capitals to the better places (rivers/ports/farmlands) So that you can have more people there and then have more citizens.

[anarnam]

Thanks,

I've already switched to the republic and I'm slowly gaining research efficiency (although it's still slow).

I'm building cities like crazy but it completely sinks my political power or w/e it's called right now.

I do feed this game is better after this update, but this way tribes are nerfed to the ground with no chance of coming up to par against big players.

[XuanKamoFurio]

you don't really need to found many cities, just use your mana to move the province capitals where the pop/cap is maximum.

Again, filling those cities was easier when centralization policy worked, so only thing to do is bother paradox till they fix it.