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Question: housing capacity needed to achieve population equilibrium

Started by MarkJerue, July 02, 2017, 09:10:16 AM

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MarkJerue

All,

I've wondered this for awhile. Assuming the following is true:

A. You have an equal age spread not skewed toward young or old
B. You enroll all your citizens in schooling
C. You have a few dangerous professions, but nothing more than average (IE 10% hunters/stonemasons)

What housing size do you need to make it so your population will stay the same without having to build more houses? Do you need all your houses to be size 8? Or half size 6, half size 8? Referring to the maximum number of occupants in a house.

I ask b/c it is hard to figure out just what housing size is needed - I haven't been able to figure it out when I've experimented.

Nilla

First I can say; it doesn't matter what you do, you can't get a stable population in Banished just by building a certain number of houses of a certain size. In theory you could, if you manage to get a "perfect" age distribution of the population: The same number of children born every year. The problem is the "random" factor. Sometimes ther's more male than female, sometimes, the apposite. Sometimes it's 10 years between the first and second child, sometimes 4. Sometimes there's no accidental deaths, sometimes several in a short time. Some people live until they are 90, some die of old age with 60. Sometimes there's a lot of single widow/ers, sometimes more or less only couples. When you don't build any new houses and one gets free, it might be occupied by a 17 year old graduate who gets a bunch of children, but it might as well be occupied by a 42+ old spinster who gets none. 

I have made a lot of experimenting with this. As long as you pay attention and micromanage a lot, it works fine. You can keep the population the same. (The easiest way is to use boarding houses and fake domolition of houses) The important thing is to have a constant number of children. But as soon as you leave the people to themselves, it doesn't take long until the "famous sinus graph" appears.

I thought I might have blogged some of my attempts but didn't find anything good.




MarkJerue

No, that's all right! Thanks for your response; I specifically came on today before I started up my game thinking "oh, I should see what answer(s) I got."

That's a relief in a way. Now I can focus on the design of the town over only using houses of a certain size :)

RedKetchup

Quote from: MarkJerue on July 07, 2017, 05:24:38 PM
That's a relief in a way. Now I can focus on the design of the town over only using houses of a certain size :)

Nilla is our specialist about population, economy, making successful cities that can run all night at sleep and stay perfectly functionnal without economy crashes :)
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