Population limit in my island now shows 23452/19040 with Unemployed Setters: 4. What???
I used to have around 2300 available after adventure. Now, I can't queue up troops in barracks.
Was there an adjustment in population or is this a bug?
Population limit in my island now shows 23452/19040 with Unemployed Setters: 4. What???
I used to have around 2300 available after adventure. Now, I can't queue up troops in barracks.
Was there an adjustment in population or is this a bug?
This problem has been around for a long time. Some whining snaffler had to push the issue and get it fixed?! I mean, really? Was it hurting anyone outside of ascetics?
Would not be so bad if we we given notice or something (NO, that morning notification is not sufficient). In any case, why would this issue require an immediate hot-fix?? They seem to be just fine with other bugs remaining forever (think the specialists that no longer grey out when your star is pinned).
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Ge, thanks for screwing up everybody's population that was fine before the Hot Fix... ;(
Most of us have probably built up armies well over our population limit because.... well.... we could. I have over 30,000 total units, 327 working settlers and 7 unemployed. Unemployed settlers used to be a few thousand.
Suppose only time will tell what the heck really happened here, but I imagine I'll have to pare down my armies by about 3,000 troops to be within my actual population limit. Which means I'll run a few expeditions and finally kill those goons off.
Don't know why this was an urgent fix and why it came about with no advanced warning whatsoever, but I've gotten used to these kinds of things around here. All of this has been going on since expeditions, so using first aid as the reason for the hot fix??....... Really??
Guess it's not that big a deal, but one more time BB leaves me shaking my head over their thought processes and implementations.
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quite a rude surprise, indeed
I have 11k unemployed settlers. Welcome to my happy town. I think those numbers sound about right. I am at my pop cap now, though, which means bouncing icons above my village schools. Helpful to know, but I don't need to know it all the time nor can I as readily address the issue like I could with any other resource (I like the icons for storage full otherwise). I'm tempted to spend the 6k coins and move them to somewhere on my island I rarely look at.
So I now have exactly 4000 troops over my max population limit.
I am now about 3300 pop over my limit. 1 guy is still unemployed, though.
Edit :The below post that got move here anyway...
While killing off some of my pop due to the adjustment, noticed a secondary problem that makes it MUCH worse.
Making a separate thread as otherwise this will be buried in the fix feedback and probably not noticed, most likely not noticed anyway but...
In readjusting the army number due to pop change, the army makeup is also effected. I have to remove 2,200 troops.
My total army composition was done to give me the max number of cannons to have many generals working at once, while leaving me enough troops (recruits, mil etc.) for damage soak. NOW, I have to remove 2,200 troops, leaving me with nothing to protect my cannons etc.
So in order to make room, I have have to kill off some cannons and other high cost units to make room for the cheaper sacrifice troops. You have any idea how expensive that is for smaller folks like me?! That's like months of economy flushed down the drain!
Seriously, I'd rather all the books for the generals removed and have my old army/pop numbers back.
Only hope is it's another pop cal error, and the fix is again fixed. As I did HALF an adventure with the new "first aid" which this supposedly corrects, as there's no way I created 2,200 extra troops from an army of ~7K in that. And no way did I get my current army setup done in that time.
Edit: looking at it some more, and what I'll be able to do game wise (quests/adventures) with the new numbers. Won't be sticking around. Slow progress is fine, gives you something to work for. But just after getting into Ali Baba quests, and now not being able to do them most probably for a year or something. Nah. Not going backwards that far and doing that again. Only hope is the new pop truely is an error and it will be fixed.
Edit2:
Lol, guess they take time enough to move posts into the thread of ignore, but not enough to answer. Getting a cold Anno vibe from when they had that economy fix and other issues.