Still seeing odd things with population

this morning I had 12 unassigned settlers.

10 were from a recent upgrade to a floating res, the other two were waiting for their coal and iron mine to rebuild. Everything else as far as assigned units was up and running.

So I queue up 10 bowmen in the barracks.

And I now have an unassigned settlers total of 3?

Since the patch to fix the neg pop issue I have seen this happen two times, I thought it was just a miscount on my part, but I now am pretty darned sure your patch is not working and we are still generating population invisibly.

In addition I deleted two wheatfields and some wells since the 3/13 patch and I get back 2x resources everytime.

I suspect the patch broke more then I fixed.

B i n g o

Their should always be a patch ready to patch the current patch.

yeah or the patch can not do simple math maybe

Ok ...

this morning before going to work I had 0 settlers available.

I came home tonight and I have 6 unassigned settlers.

I lost over the course of the day 1 copper mine, 1 coal mine and 3 wells. I have nothing else to build, so I should have 5 unassigned.

But yet I have 6?

Any comments from the devs please?

1 thing I learned from this game is nothing makes sense.

Hi ErasmusCrow,

I'm sorry to hear about this issue you're having. If you haven't already, please send in a ticket to Support. It would be helpful to document this situation with screenshots so that the Support team can investigate this quickly and efficiently.

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Originally Posted by Wimpy

Their should always be a patch ready to patch the current patch.

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pending on a patch to patch the patch

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Originally Posted by BB_Rawren

Hi ErasmusCrow,

I'm sorry to hear about this issue you're having. If you haven't already, please send in a ticket to Support. It would be helpful to document this situation with screenshots so that the Support team can investigate this quickly and efficiently.

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call me a little jaded Rawren ... but sending a ticket will only get me "Please clear cookies and cache in your browser" as it is the usual response.

The other problem is this, screen shot won't really show things, it is happening in behind the scenes.

This morning I rebuild everything that depleted overnight ... I have not increased my population in days since the patch.

I now have 3 left over settlers.

They are growing.

Is anyone else seeing this?

For the record, I do not have any of the "discover an extra mine" skills. So its not coming from the amount of mines available to me. Nor have I been running adventures of late so its not a miscount as I restock troops.

At least you can see your settler menu...i hover over my population and the screen does not even open...then randomly it works again...then nothing. I have to open a general to see how many troops i have and most times i can't see whether or not i have unemployed settlers or how many working settlers i have

as of this morning my population is 6813/6810.

I have a screen shot just not sure how to attach it to the devs or even post it here.

Hi Erasmus,

You'll need to upload the screenshot to either Photobucket or Imgur and copy the image URL.

Then, open a new reply and click on the Insert Image link in the toolbar. Past the image URL there and it should embed into your post.

This is ABSOLUTELY maddening!!!!

As I reported on this thread I am seeing excess population leaking in. As I reporting on 4/4/14 I was seeing 6813/6810, I even did a screenshot and mailed it to the devs. I was a good boy.

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Redacted. Cannot repost emails from Support or moderators, as per the Code of Conduct

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So I ran an adventure and I reset to 6810/6810, this was on 4/5/14.

Things seemed ok once more.

Now as I have told the devs I do not have any skills on my geos that will find one extra mine, so I am not having an issue from that with the amount of active mines changing. Yet by Sunday 4/6/14 I once again had one more settler then I should. So I figured maybe I just slipped when I was replacing lost units from and adventure. I popped this extra guy into the barracks and I had my Unemployed Settlers at 0 once more.

I turned in last night with everything rebuilt, nothing missing, and 0 Unemployed Settlers.

This morning I wake up, fire up the game ... and I have 2 Unemployed Settlers, I am 6810/6810. OK, so I have two things down that need a settler. I scan my map, and I find I have exactly one Iron Mine depleted.

I have an extra settler once more!!!

Are the devs awake? I mean, seriously, do they really have a clue?

I like this game but I ceased buying gems ages ago because of issues. You can try and entice me with 3x sales but I won't budge until I see some kind of REAL attempt to fix this buggy as all hell game.

Thank you for letting me vent, now will a dev ACTUALLY respond to this thread and address this issue. I am not wasting my time with tickets anymore as that never amounts to squat.

My last bit of steam on this as I surrender to the broken bits.

Since the Easter Event started I have added 3 floating residences, pop moved from 6810 to 6990.

I have run over 10 adventures in this time as well.

Last night I turned in and had 0 Unemployed Settlers.

over the hours I had 1 well, 1 copper mine and 1 iron mine deplete.

I woke up this morning to 6993/6990.

When the 3/15/2014 patch kicked in and the issue with invisible population was addressed I was fine with it. A problem had been identified and fixed. As I plan in this game for the long haul the sudden need to adjust my population was irksome, I had to spend resources for Nobles I had not planned for to compensate for the patch fix. This of course caused me to have to reschedule my other plans as I was spending resources on something I did not anticipate. Yet it was ok, the game was being fixed I told myself and I would not have to do this again.

This time I have reported it clearly, I have sent in a ticket, I have received the standard pat response, but I have still to hear from anyone who is actually looking at the issue. When the dev's suddenly have to patch again, to fix their fix, I think this time around everyone in the game should be sent residences for free to correct the issue as there is nothing coming from anywhere that indicates the problem is being looked at. I know, its a wish, and it won't happen, but if and when it does get addressed and once more I have to adjust for 200 or so invisible pop, it will be time to consider if this is a place to come too anymore.

First off I do want to note that someone I assume is on the Dev team did get back to me and I appreciate the efforts. I was asked to submit some data which I did and I also took all the steps outlined in their reply.

I came home from work today, before leaving I was 7090/7090 and 0 Unemployed Settlers. I am now at 7098/7090. So I have had more additions to the family! I had 2 wells down, 1 iron mine and 1 coal mine.

I have no idea if anyone is following this thread but I will keep it updated as things change.

As of this morning, 4/23/2014 ...

I am 7129/7120.

I have 5 Unemployed Settlers.

I have 3 Floating Res that will upgrade to level 5 in a few days (they are at 44% now).

It seems that my inviso pop is growing.

I have been quiet for weeks now on this matter but this morning I am 1876/1870 and I do not have the pop to run mines.

I have resent a ticket, I am tired of getting screen shots, I have done everything asked ...

AND NO FIX, NO REPLY!

I am losing a lot of interest in this game as no matter how I plan and arrange the game messes me up and forces me to spend resources that I am depleting at a rapid rate.

well, I got a reply. I won't post it here as it will get pulled ...

in effect the fix is keep growing housing or run adventures.

I think the devs have given up on this game.

I have more unemployed as 2000 and less working pop..........can't seem to get the umemployed working either............more unemployed then ever...........tired ofr the game that doesn't work with it's people................me too, no aide..................can ask for steel and crossbows yet the pop is lazy and farms and brewery isn't enough to keep the bums working let alone hanging out as the shelters..............druggies and alcoholics they have become because of desired unemployment they don't want to work...............lazy on their asses doing nothing...............will I be struck by lightening..................???
autumn257

I have 6700 MaxPop. 6500Armyunits. 158 working but i have 3716 out of 6700 and 295unemployed. this doesnt add up

I figured I would bump my thread here as I have been complaining about this a long time now. Of course the fix recently pushed to fix this has made things infinitely worse. I now I am pumping out 1000's of recruits above my population cap.

Thanks for listening BB.

<ps: no, I am not bothering to clear cookies and cache and of course I know the fix will be the same as it was last time I emailed you guys ... build more housing or run adventures till my pop is in balance again <sigh>>

You know .... here is an idea .... which BB will laugh out of the water

1) create another test server based on an actual production server.
2) copy the game DATA from the live server to this test server
3) let the people of the server you are copying from know that their server is selected for testing, this test server would be a close mirror to the live server (depending on when the copy was done)
4) BB can apply fixes to the copy/test server
5) see what happens BEFORE applying the patches to the LIVE servers

you can wipe this test server clean anytime you want and it would be much more useful then the test server is as this 2nd test server would hold things as already built by the players instead of having to go thru making a new setup on the TSO test server.

after the 'maintainance" i am seeing my troop, unemployed and workers add up to my max pop... BUT my troop count is way off -- i have 6465 troops - but it says i have 2831....

Same. Pop maxed. Many many unemployed. Troop count still way off, about half still. Killing troops gets me back below max, but the troop count is still wonky. Perhaps killing more will work eventually.