pop system

[Josh Warner]

Originally Posted by Darvin

My guess is that ogres don't take up these population points, but probably cost a huge amount of food.

If a real 'cap' is part of the system, it has to cost population. I don't recall them saying one way or the other, though. A hard cap that is, where no matter what you can't get more.

[Darvin]

I do believe they have talked about a hard "population" cap, but that would be separate from orc peasant populations... which means we probably need some proper terminology to distinguish these two concepts.

Once the beta starts I'm sure we'll quickly establish a lexicon specific to this game, but until then these terms will be somewhat ambiguous.

[wills370]

they could get round the ogres being drwan not from the free peasant etc as putting them in as mercinary units available only to the orcs. Therefore they would remain exclusive but also realistic. Im guessing they would proably take some gold,food and some pop to govern. But that is just my take

And wow sounds great does that mean you have to wait to gain more and more men, or do the peasant orcs appear once you build a house?

love the variety this game is going to have in the ecomony in by the way.

And what do a kid orc and a flower have in common?

There both called orchids :P


Sorry bad joke but i just thought of it.

[wills370]

Another thought would be how much is the starting pop without houses. or do you auto get some houses when you start?

[Andy Joslin]

The orcs have a couple of huts at the start, which give population cap. All orc units (ogres, beasts, goblins, orcs) fall under this population cap. Build more huts for more population.

[wills370]

Originally Posted by Andy Joslin

The orcs have a couple of huts at the start, which give population cap. All orc units (ogres, beasts, goblins, orcs) fall under this population cap. Build more huts for more population.

Cool, what happens if all houses are destroyed? does your pop cap go to 0?

And what about the other races?

[DDERME]

how about making a game mode witch theres no pop limitit at all,
and can call it "no pop skirmish" and just do what ever u
do to get pop and it just goes on and on forever (the limit not the game)
cus i hate pop limits
and there needs to be a mode with no pop limit cus nobody likes small
armies
so people who have good rigs,by rigs i mean pc's use the no pop mode to play
and the people with bad pc's use the normal skirmish mode
so there will be no lag online cus the two skirmish modes cus there will be an order of playing
or there can be a auto match making thing that matches the players and gives
infinte pop if they both have good pc's but the first idea is better

[Henry Martin]

Originally Posted by DDERME

how about making a game mode witch theres no pop limitit at all,
and can call it "no pop skirmish" and just do what ever u
do to get pop and it just goes on and on forever (the limit not the game)
cus i hate pop limits
and there needs to be a mode with no pop limit cus nobody likes small
armies
so people who have good rigs,by rigs i mean pc's use the no pop mode to play
and the people with bad pc's use the normal skirmish mode
so there will be no lag online cus the two skirmish modes cus there will be an order of playing
or there can be a auto match making thing that matches the players and gives
infinte pop if they both have good pc's but the first idea is better

I know what you mean I not a fan of pop limits my self, but not only does the person computer come into to play, but also the engine as it to can only handle so much. The more stuff in the game the more the engine has to calculate which causes the engine to slow down. Look at the total war series, even though they have a power full engine that supports a lot of units on screen it still has a limit to how many can be in a screen.

There are other reason developers do these thing don't just think they are doing it to **** you off or because some poor gamer can't afford a decent PC.

[JDmino]

Originally Posted by u_have_krabs

I know what you mean I not a fan of pop limits my self, but not only does the person computer come into to play, but also the engine as it to can only handle so much. The more stuff in the game the more the engine has to calculate which causes the engine to slow down. Look at the total war series, even though they have a power full engine that supports a lot of units on screen it still has a limit to how many can be in a screen.

There are other reason developers do these thing don't just think they are doing it to **** you off or because some poor gamer can't afford a decent PC.

Not to mention how annoying it would be when your computer lags because you have 500 units and your enemy has 6000. Pop limits add strategy to the game. You need to spread out your military and economy in a way that is efficient and allows room for your empire to expand. So pop limits are pretty important in this sort of game.

[Jean=A=Luc]

What's this about a poop system?