For more population build farms and their research upgrades, later conquer west for more food. conquest in general helps. for faster reproduction put some genes into "Babies"
if your army dies and all your men ended up going to war, your population becomes extinct ( you know only males and females make children) and you start with 1000 people.
here's a tip, go to war, increase the size of your army and send your people to an early grave. the dead don't eat. get the hint? more dead - more new babies are born and you get genes even for loosing a battle. Another thing is that conquestrewards keep increasing - if you conquered enough countries your only source of income is going to be exactly that - WAR. so go out there to kill and get slaughtered both are beneficial.
on your second run you can use the "stupid" perk to keep your population in check or reduce them getting rid of all those unwanted unemployed that just waste cars and tools.
what elderly, in my country the oldest are 22 year old girls. the boys go to war with 18 and none come back, and those not in war die of disease and other maladies. I'm surprised they have time to repopulate, as everyone has to give birth to around 100 children before dying at 22.
1% of my population reaches working age, maybe its because even sucklings drink&drive as soon as they put on diaphers.
@themistoklis there was an update changing the "west" income as well as reseting the current population.
@Carlyndra after you soft reset you use genes to customize your people, but wait for a few hundred of them irst.
@Hugomanen later the rewards get far more than you will ever need. conquest rewards start low, but later 99,99% of your income will be from conquest. true for all but the "west" now
it has nothing to do with fast play - most likely you ran out of food and had too many ppl so massive starvation set in their mood dropped to zero so no more kids are born - even if they have food - until the mood returns to normal it stays that way.
and population fluctuation is normal, you can experiment around with placing your genes, i once adjusted my genes so i hadno people above the age of 30. sounds evil but it was a stable society and produced genes faster than normal. right now i have around 31 septillion food but i changed death rate so i only have a population thats a fraction of what i can support - far more tools & cars for building - but still too expensive
turned out there are some more interesting things happening now. i tried my best to stay with minimum of Unemployed so i could get as many Research Centers as possible. At one point it simply got too hard as i didn't get anymore bonus beyond 3k Toolmakers - making it hard to keep up with the drastic costincrease for science. i got 3,6k tool makers and barely made 206 research buildings. With e+46 in smarter - it still is my one chokepoint. guess you have to do some balancing with worker upgrades / bonus for reaching x amount of buildings. so you get overall more tools cars and the like or decrease the cost. probably the first is a better option.
another thing that happened was, at one point i increased my army so much, compared to my overall population that all my males went to war and my people went extinct. back to 1000 people then have it happen all over. took me a while to grind through more west countries, for my population to multiply to fix it
Interesting points and sending all males to war is pretty tought :p
Many others have also said that research is now a choke points, let's wait for more oppinions and I will do some testing on my own in the meantime. Then will do update!
I'm trying to make a run while keeping the majority of my people in the workforce or army. still the cost increase for both research facility and weaponsmith is quite steep, even though i put e^47 genes into effective and e^46 in stronger aggressive and smarter. lets see how it plays out while getting as many of those buildings as i can before i start to let my population run wild
btw you created a new chokepoint - science. maybe its gonna get better once i restart but for now my scienceproduction + country is not adding anything noticeable. though my upgrades are far better than what i could afford with current production
hey a new update - thats great, but as for more weapons from north and easier genes, i might add that i have 160 quattuordecillion genes. now i don't see it changing no more. i know its thanks to not having a big enough population right now. maybe i get where i was - eager to test it.
For the army, my fighting strenght is suddenly hundreds of times stronger as more people go fight now - but they still only conquer one field at a time then run back home. hey the enemy didn't even beat the vanguard and you go home, makes me wanna slap all those peasants and they don't even return my weapons... 500 Duodecillion weapons just gone - maybe its their pay for showing up at the enemy country
here's an update i got 11 Decillion genes now, the game is self sufficient through conquests, they give me like 99.99% of tech weapons wood and food - building is almost obsolete save for barracks.
still great game, but conquest screws up hard :D
Funny your population is mostly stable unless you play around with Genetics...
May make your population UNstable: Babies, Stupid and better food. if you want a STABLE game don't put any or just a few points in there.
Your people breed until there is not a speck of food left, then go into depression and almost die out.
first of all your population is stable unless you used genes on one of the following: Babies Stupid and better food. THOSE DO MAKE YOUR POPULATION UNSTABLE, so if you want your population stable, don't put many Genes in there. Storing food is bad as your people breed and breed without stopping until there is just a speck of food left. And then they hate you and starve.
and a question my army ha the same size has the same amount of weapons but sometimes their Attack is 1/3 during the next autorest then it is for the first battle. It returns to the Maximum once i put them on hold for 1 sec. But i doubt its really the point having to hold / unhold every new attackphase
okay i did a rough count and i have 1,8 Billion people working but between 580 and 640 Billion unemployed, buildings seem so expensive for me that its not worth buying anything but more barracks, and simply crush countries for gold and food. i put 400 Genes in Effectiveness = 4.22 Bonus ( not sure in what). I really do like the game but all those unemployed people are gonna rebell soon enough, as all they have is food, turning my country into a slaughterhouse.
so any info on the "Lord Sword" i got one drop and it doesn't tell me what abilities or how i use it. Would be nice if anyone could share their knowledge with me
and it happend again on the retry... maybe it helps that i only have a lvl 1 outpost with a cannon, but the boss just runs past the wall and hits from the sandbag area
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Interesting points and sending all males to war is pretty tought :p Many others have also said that research is now a choke points, let's wait for more oppinions and I will do some testing on my own in the meantime. Then will do update!