i have tried to defend the population rebalance BUT

[Domesday]

I get it - it's clever and it works for the majority of players -

but for veterans of the game with large populations - large armies - and who are always active - we are kinda trapped.

I had just done an SE, BLT and VLT AND had built op a large PvP army to go take a Large colony - so I had very few recruits left - (time to reload the barracks) as a result my halved totals are so small I would have to kill 1000 elites, 600 xbows, 500 cannon etc...troops that would never die ordinarily. I literally cant get to the target number without doing this - so the short cut work around - does have the unintended consequence -

THIS IS NOT A FIX - this is a PUSH TO CONSUME stuff that need not be consumed, Highly disappointing and again NOT A FIX.

[Bigbobdog]

So i am curious lets say i have 5k worth of pop cap left. I have no intention of killing my elites or crossbows etc. So if i dont get it back that way do i just get to keep making extra recruits and having more than i "should"?

[Domesday]

exactly = so after a day of riding I have 6581 troops and my target military is 2278 to reset the population correctly - so I have to kill 4303 troops -

but I only have 475 recruits, 613 bow, 285 militia, 1000 cavalry, 567 longbow, 216 soldier, 600 xbow 999 elite and 353 cannon. ( and 1373 pvp troops).

I could do a Dark Brotherhood by myself - and kill the cavalry but I am still going to have to kill another 2000 troops after that and all my bows, militia and cavalry will be dead .

So what I do I do now - slaughter 2k of the rest JUST TO RESET MY POPULATION. ridiculous. THIS IS NOT A FIX.

[Aurboth]

So, as a result you will not be able to reduce you troops to the level assigned to them. Until you reach that point, you will remain in the first phase of the fix and your troops will count as half units. Because of this, you will effectively have double the space for troops and have an inflated population capacity. Unless they implement another fix that would actually change the population cap to make it so your actual population is over the cap again, you will be stuck with an expanded population and be able to make more troops than you could before.

What exactly is the problem here?

[Gwalben]

Yep. I'm fine with an inflated population capacity. Unless a future fix pushes me so far over the limit that I have to kill thousands of troops just to populate a new building.

[CiscoMODE]

Kinda wondering that myself.

[Domesday]

well - there is some chat around the game that those who take advantage of the glitch and exceed their capacity will be visited by the BB's et. al. for a discussion...

[LordB]

I just cant figure it out. Even if you burn recruits eventually it will reset back to normal no?

Its not like you have a large population to work through at all, just run some adventures and it is back to normal... no?

What a strange thing to get worked up about.

[Domesday]

WHAT RECRUITS? I have 475 to "burn" 4000 - That is not how it is working right now. Which adventures would you have me run with 400 recruits to kill 4000 troops. if I add recruits (I ran an SE, VLT , and BLT today) - my military target goes up with each recruit who comes out of the barracks - the recruits are killed and I am back where I started with 4000 troops still to kill to reset the population. These are the troops I have ( 475 recruits, 613 bow, 285 militia, 1000 cavalry, 567 longbow, 216 soldier, 600 xbow 999 elite and 353 cannon and 1373 pvp troops). 4000 of THESE EXACT TROOPS have to die to rest - how is that a fix.

Kill the recruits, bows, militia, cavalry and you are halfway there...how is that a fix.

[LordB]

ahhhh I understand so you are saying say you kill 4000 recruits over a period of a week, IF you don't also kill the 1000 cav the 565 longbows 999 elites etc etc your population will always be larger than it should?