Seeking Methods On How to Manage My Population Better

[MarkAnthony]

Afternoon everyone.

So yeah, I played with RK Editor Choice for a couple of days and I am back to Vanilla where I belong. There was nothing wrong with RKEC, I intend to go back to using it as soon as possible but I need to learn the core game first. I knew this from the start but got ahead of myself and was excited to try "every piece of candy in the candy store" as it were (all the different mods and changes to the game). RKEC just threw so much stuff at me and I was a bit overwhelmed by it all.

Anyways, I'm back in Vanilla as of this morning and I do admit my game is a bit more fun and it's lasted so much longer -  it's still going too despite my first population die off of 30+ citizens because I neglected my food supply when my population reached 70+. My population expanded but my food production did not, it was still stuck at a 30-citizen capacity. No biggie, it was a teachable moment.    It's kind of nice being unshackled from the aging mod! What a difference! hehe


So population growth!?  More specifically - how exactly do you do this and what methods do you use? It was during this phase of me trying to experiment with some of the stuff I read in the forums (things @RedKetchup and @Nilla had said) that things got out of hand and went downhill leading to my first mass die-off. I read things RedKetchup and Nilla said and tried to implement it myself but I didn't fully understand the ways of doing it and well... I messed up obviously and apparently.

This whole "destroy and reclaim" homes and "kicking people out and pairing them up" is what I am seeking more information on right now specifically. If I could just get this done properly it would drastically improve my game play in Banished. I tried setting homes for destruction, waited for them to get their belongings, then waited an extra ten minutes or so. At this point several homes were empty but not yet destroyed; the reclaim button was still available. So I used the reclaim button but was disappointed that it was all for naught! Everyone moved back in, just as they were prior to me evicting them. I'm trying to get the extra adults and older children out, but keep mom and dad and the toddlers inside. But it didn't work that way, everyone went back to their former homes and living arrangements. What am I doing wrong and more specifically how is it that you do it?

After I get the hang of doing that, then of course I would be happy to receive other "population control" techniques and methods any one might have that has nothing to do with destroying homes and playing match maker. Tips and tricks regarding Nomads and what ever else helps to regulate population. Speaking of Nomads, I did accept my first batch. I think I had a population just under 50 when 6 Nomads arrived and I accepted them because I already had 4.5 hearts in general health and also a two Herbalists employed and a Hospital with a Physician - so I wasn't afraid of those Nomads entering.

Thank you in advance and I look forward to all replies, help, and any secrets you are willing to share. 

~MarkAnthony
               

[Nilla]

You can´t control "pairing" in other ways than building enough houses for new couples to move into. And building new houses is the only thing you need to do in a normal case. Only if you have built too many houses or so many people have died that you have more houses than families, you need to use the "fake demolishing"trick.

If you want your settlement to grow fast, you build a new house as soon as a girl is an adult. If an adult girl and a student boy move together, children are born, but no student girl become a child. Think about that!

In the beginning, it´s easy to keep track of each individual. Later you can see at the town hall menu how many families you got. The number is a bit confusing and not totally reliable but still useful to see how many houses you need. When the settlement is supposed to grow, I build a couple of houses less than the number of families. If you have more houses than families, a couple may separate or a student moves in with an adult. In a small settlement, it doesn´t matter but if you build several schools on larger maps, the student may move to a place very far away from his school and it takes very long to graduate. I´ve seen 24 years old students, who spend more time on the road and in school.

If you don´t want to grow so fast, you build less new houses but I strongly recommend to build houses continuously otherwise you may get a drop in population because of over aging.

I wouldn´t take any nomads until you are a bit more used to the game. Nomads are uneducated. Education is important in Banished. Uneducated produce far less than educated and also "destroy" raw materials. If an uneducated tailor makes 2 coats from 2 hides, an uneducated makes 1. That´s a reason I use to build a school as (one of the) first building. If you still are tempted to take nomads (or some children who have missed school) make sure that they make things where they do little harm. Teachers, priests, and doctors are the best. Here are uneducated as good as educated! Simple food producers like fisher, farmer, gather are also OK. Uneducated produce around 1/3 less. But build the nomad houses far away from tailor and blacksmiths. Here they do most harm. I also don´t want them to be laborers to clear ground. They become less stone or iron from each precious rock.

[smurphys7]

My understanding of Banished can be summarized in two short and simple rules:

1) Build Home and Work and Storage all as close as possible together.

This 4 minute video explains it detail.

2) Only build homes with jobs.  As a rule of thumb consider each home to be 2 jobs.

A Fishing Dock has 4 jobs.  Build a Barn and 2 Homes directly next to it.

A Gathering Hut, a Forester, a Hunting Cabin, a Herbalist etc. all together?  I'd build 3 to 5 homes right there. 

A School?  Build 1 home.

A Physician?  Build 1 home.

A Tailor and a Blacksmith next to each other?  Build 1 home.

[MarkAnthony]

You can´t control "pairing" in other ways than building enough houses for new couples to move into. And building new houses is the only thing you need to do in a normal case. Only if you have built too many houses or so many people have died that you have more houses than families, you need to use the "fake demolishing"trick.

If you want your settlement to grow fast, you build a new house as soon as a girl is an adult. If an adult girl and a student boy move together, children are born, but no student girl become a child. Think about that!

Thanks for your reply @Nilla .

Yeah, I had a good handle on my population at first in terms of the housing to families ratio. Every couple of in-game years I would cycle through the homes peeking at the occupants and after a while I started seeing some in the ages where they should be living in their own homes. So if one home showed mom and dad and two young kids and also a couple of students who were old enough to move out and have their own place - I'd build a new home. But what happened was just a single student would move in. I thought maybe that'd be okay because that student would eventually hook up - but I don't know if they ever did.

So with no aging mod, what age does a girl become and adult? Or a boy for that matter? So you are saying:

   
• Build a new home when an individual girl becomes an adult
• An adult girl + a student boy = children born

What about:

   
• Build a new home when an individual boy becomes an adult? Won't he find someone to marry and have kids with?
• An adult boy + a student girl /= (does not equal) children born?
• What about single adults male and female - won't they pair up if a new home is built?

So how exactly is that "fake demolishing trick" handled? What are the steps to doing it properly because I don't think I did it right since everyone seemed to move back in just as they were before I kicked them out.

An adult girl marries a student boy and has kids but no one marries a student girl? Or if they can marry a student girl, they just won't have kids because girls in school were taught to not have sex?  lol     I think I read that somewhere in the forums on Steam. /shrug

So break it down for me please: Who marries who? Which paired couple has children? Which paired couple does not have children? Do single people living in homes by themselves ever get anyone else to move in with them? Or does one person moving into a home by themselves = instant failure and need to be demolished? I'm confused a bit by the mechanics of all of it.

And how do I fix things (housing) after a mass die off when I end up with more homes than families? Should I just immediately start destroying homes? Which ones in particular should I be on the look out for?

When the settlement is supposed to grow, I build a couple of houses less than the number of families. If you have more houses than families, a couple may separate or a student moves in with an adult.

The part in bold - I understand the words that are coming outta your mouff (Rush Hour movie reference) but that doesn't make sense!  It seems backwards. If I want my population to grow wouldn't my housing ratio be for example something like 24 families /24 homes? And so if I want population to expand I'd build a new home or two so like 26 homes/24 familes.  No? My brain cannot handle the logic of - "if I want more people then I need to have less homes for the families I already have." Can you make my brain smarter please and explain that? 

And why is it so bad that a student moves in with an adult?

I wouldn´t take any nomads until you are a bit more used to the game. Nomads are uneducated. Education is important in Banished. Uneducated produce far less than educated and also "destroy" raw materials.

... That´s a reason I use to build a school as (one of the) first building.

I read about that in the forums before I started playing so I understand the warning about uneducated people, especially nomads. But do I need to be concerned if my town educated % is at a certain point? For example, when my nomads came my town had an 86% educated stat prior to them arriving - then a while later it went to 94% before I came back to the forums here to ask more questions.  And yeah, I too like to build a school as soon as possible.

If you still are tempted to take nomads (or some children who have missed school) make sure that they make things where they do little harm. Teachers, priests, and doctors are the best. Here are uneducated as good as educated! Simple food producers like fisher, farmer, gather are also OK. Uneducated produce around 1/3 less. But build the nomad houses far away from tailor and blacksmiths. Here they do most harm. I also don´t want them to be laborers to clear ground. They become less stone or iron from each precious rock.

Okay now you got me scratching my head. Nomads and children who missed school = uneducated. I get that, but you continue to say that I should make sure they take certain jobs. Basically that is what I am hearing you say to me. How do I control what jobs they take? Or if I find an uneducated citizen in a job he should not have, how do I fire them from the job and make them take something else? Up above you're making it sound as if we have control over their jobs and I'm wondering how.

LOL @Nilla  -  bet you're sorry you replied now aren't you? hehe.  Thanks again for your reply, I await your new answers.  **bows to my new teacher, Ms. Nilla! ** 

And to @smurphys7     Thank you for your reply as well and I am proud and happy to say, I did everything you said!  It makes sense and it's simple and I am glad I actually started off doing it that way.

[brads3]

they sent you to the corner? i wouldn't have gone without  a fight.where is my cannons? don't feel bad they still tell me i don't play right either.

    you don't have to do all the chains with the RK it was designed much better than the CC versions and chains.tghose would really overwhelm you. RED adjusted the balance between workplaces much better. you can make lower grade tools like stone or iron ore and not even need to process iron.

     most of your issues are figuring out your own playstyle everyone is different and uses different mods. there are several ways to handle the populations.to deal with nomads i build a boardinghouse.this keeps them happy and housed while working to build them their own house. "pairing" bannies up is more game controlled than by us players. i have seen bannies that did not want to leabe home and others who wanted to stay as bachelors.nomad groups come and are divorced also. do not fear this they can still have babies and multiply. on an adam and eve start it is desireable to split the 2 you will have more children faster.

         what works for me is to divide the number of adult workers by 2 and build that many houses. adjust and compensate for bachelors or a heavy male population. so if i have 20 adult bannies,i should have 11 houses,10+1 boardinghouse.  you can, with different modded houses,get larger or smaller families. more children does mean more food. every bannies eats 100 food units each year. does not matter the age.

       map i am on now i created a dilema with larger houses. a colonial village was suppose to work to feed everyone. with families having 5 and 6 children per house,they were in fact eating up all the "extra" food.

        the pairing issue can be partly due to the game giving you mostly male children it will do this randomly.if you start with mostly male children, it will take a while to get families. back to the age mods,PLURAL. they have options to when the bannies move out on their own and pair up they have options as to when the bannies bear children. each version has the ages set differently.the vanilla setting isn't in sync. the bannies graduate school at 1 age,bear children another,start school too young,which means they can move out if there is no school.marry at another age,etc. without a school, they are still children when they can become workers.yet they will not pair up for many years. with a school, they finish schooling but it takes longer than a age moddeed game.

        i skip the school for the 1st few children. even working slower since they are un-educated they do more than 0.this is time to build surpluses of food,logs,etc,and to clear land. with or without a school,as the females get to 16 yrs of age,i build houses. once they go to school,they graduate by then.so they graduate and move out and can bear children at the same age. every year or so check the adult count and housing count,1 house to every 2 adult or working bannies.

      as to the "fake demo trick",that is done on an ADAM and EVE srtart. forcing the parents to split and thereby doubling the number of children allowed since they also are split. BANNIES DO NOT NEED TO BE PAIRED TO HAVE CHILDREN. the female will bear children and the game will send them to live elsewhere until the house is full. whereas the parents in a house gives you 2 spaces for children,with 2 houses you have more space for 6.  NOTE you also need firewood and food for 2 houses now.

[brads3]

too many variables to your last set of questions. some i cleared up wioth my other post. adults bannies are working adults but not neccessarly old enough to move out or have children. to confuse you even more children will move closer to school,leaving their own parents and move in with others.

        "who will marry who?" i am not sure even LUKE can answere that. it is so random. some will not marry at all some will later than others.some will right after a death of their own spouse or a friend's. the bannies have minds of their own and act accordingly. whatever we try to make them do they will do the opposite. tis a mystery bigger than the owl and a tootsie pop.

    as for "forcing" nomad bannies to certain jobs.it is not foolproof. you build the house for them and the workplace near it. odds are the bannie will take up the close job. so say you build a house near a forest,odds are they will work there and not as a blacksmith in town. as a bannie reaches the age of moving out from the parent,sometimes they like to keep their job and will only take a house nearby. again not fool proof. i've built 3 houses all different types and sizes nearby and a girl never moved out when her "friend" died,she moved in with the widowed husband and children.

[MarkAnthony]

they sent you to the corner? i wouldn't have gone without  a fight.where is my cannons? don't feel bad they still tell me i don't play right either.

Huh? What? Who put me in the corner? "No one puts Baby in the corner!" (another movie reference, Dirty Dancing)    

... to deal with nomads i build a boardinghouse.this keeps them happy and housed while working to build them their own house.

I knewwwww about boarding houses... I ... just.....forgot to build one!!! But that's alright I think since I only had six nomads come in to my population of 49 at the time; they had 4.5 heart health and 86% educated rate also two herbalists and a physician. So I don't think those six itty bitty nomads hurt me at all.  But yeah, I forgot all about the boarding house, whoopsie!

         what works for me is to divide the number of adult workers by 2 and build that many houses. adjust and compensate for bachelors or a heavy male population. so if i have 20 adult bannies,i should have 11 houses,10+1 boardinghouse.

Yeah, that's how I was doing it and it seemed to work then whoopsie!!! I forgot all about expanding my food production and I lost 30+ people due to starvation.  Now I got ten more houses than families? Something like that.

      as to the "fake demo trick",that is done on an ADAM and EVE srtart. forcing the parents to split and thereby doubling the number of children allowed since they also are split. BANNIES DO NOT NEED TO BE PAIRED TO HAVE CHILDREN. the female will bear children and the game will send them to live elsewhere until the house is full. whereas the parents in a house gives you 2 spaces for children,with 2 houses you have more space for 6.  NOTE you also need firewood and food for 2 houses now.

Up above in the bold - what method do you use to force a couple to split? Where does this "fake demolishing" come into play? Is the fake demolishing trick different than what you do to split up couples? If so, how?

The underlined part - explain your math please. How do you get 6?


Thanks for your reply @brads3 
               

[brads3]

yeah the fake demo is different. say a bannie dies,now you have a single bannie with children. if you have another house way over there with a single bannie,you can demolish both houses ths way they all go homeless. then reclaim 1 house and hold your breathe,they should move in  together. then you have a choice with the 2nd house. do you reclaim it and hope they do not split again and a couple youngsters  move in  or just tear it down? this trick also can be done with a older person with a young bannie and older bannie in the same house. or in my case where 1 girl stayed with the parents longer. it would have forced her to move problem is then  the whole family goes homeless children can be mobed into other houses with different parents. a widow might pick up 1 of the older parents also.causes confusiion to the bannies. if i remember correctly in the case where the girl stayed home longer,she did have a child while living at home.

    don't feel bad about the boardinghouse. NILLA made all the bannies drink water with no food before too,not even bread. poor poor bannies

[Nilla]

As you might understand, Brad and I have a "history". Not that we´ve ever met personally but if each of us finds an opportunity to make a little joke or some "nasty" comment about something the other said or done, none of us will miss the opportunity.

Back to your questions. I might express myself a bit unclear. You must apologize; English is my third language and I´m doing my best to improve but sometimes I mess up with the language.

First; a student never moves out alone or couple with another student. The single student you saw must have a mate somewhere; an adult girl who also lives alone in a house (or with some children). If you fake demolish his house (Fake demolish ist demolish and immediately undo) he will move back home to his girl. (Maybe there´s a newborn that cries all night and he wants his sleep, who knows why he moved out) Edit: the wife may have died. In this case, he doesn´t move back to mum´s place but lives alone until a suitable girl moves in.

A student girl does couple with an adult boy but there will be no children before the girl gets an adult. After that, it´s as likely as by any other couple, that children are born.

If you see a single adult living in a house, it´s mostly a widow/widower or the one part of a separated couple. It can also be a an adult who moves out alone, but only if there´s no mate in a suitable age, (less than 20 years age difference), this is rare. Widows/widowers remarry as soon as there is someone available in suitable age (again less than 20 years age difference), the same with the single adult. The separated couple can live apart and will not move back together spontaneously, you must force them together by fake demolishing one of their houses. But there will still be children born and none of them will pair with another person as long as the other part lives! Normally, people separate only if there are too many houses. But again it´s not foolproof. I mostly keep the building menu of a house under construction open until someone moves in; mostly to check that there isn´t a big gender unbalance and many students move out but also to prevent these (rare) separations.

You don´t need to bother much about the fake demolishing trick. Use it when you see a single person living in one house that´s not likely a widow/er or if you want to relocate some person (an uneducated blacksmith out in the woods). It´s not suitable to use to make couples.

I will not demolish the houses (unless there´s a special reason). Normally after many people have died your settlement is fully developed and you don´t need to build anything during the recovery. In such a case it´s easy to set the number of builders to 0 and "demolish" the houses you don´t need for the moment. Since there are no builders no house will be destroyed. When there´s a new couple, undo the demolish. But don´t forget; no builders. If you assign one the house will soon be gone.

I´ll answer more questions later.

When the settlement is supposed to grow, I build a couple of houses less than the number of families.

I can understand, that you are confused. First; I´m not talking at the very beginning of the game where, as I said; I use to build a house for every adult girl, I talk about a little later when it´s too much work to keep track on each individual in each house.

First the "Number of families" is a bit odd and not totally reliable. If it´s only mother father child, student. It´s alright. It tells us how many families there are in the sense we mean. But as soon as there are adult children living at home or students who move together with an adult, it´s getting nasty and hard to explain (especially in a foreign language). Simplified:
-an adult living at home counts as 1 family
-when 2 adults move together, of course, they become one family. If we say you had 25 families before they moved out after there are 24.
-an adult male living with a student girl does not count as a family until the girl gets adult but an adult girl living with a student boy does.

Confusing? yes. But also an answer to your question. If I had built 2 houses in my example when the statistics said that I had 25 families and only 23 houses. There would have been one too much. Too many houses ->separations. Cost fuel and building material. Not good!

You also ask why I don´t like students to move out. I think I already answered that;

In a small settlement, it doesn´t matter but if you build several schools on larger maps, the student may move to a place very far away from his school and it takes very long to graduate. I´ve seen 24 years old students, who spend more time on the road than in school.

The graduation time is the time the student actually spends in the school (the teacher must also be present but is seldom the problem). If he lives very far away he spends a long time walking between home and school and the education may take several years longer, compared to if he lives next to the school. Students attend the nearest available school when they become 10 and never change schools.

How do I control what jobs they take? Or if I find an uneducated citizen in a job he should not have, how do I fire them from the job and make them take something else? Up above you're making it sound as if we have control over their jobs and I'm wondering how.

No, we don´t have control or rather; we only have control to a certain degree. You have noticed that the game tries to minimize the time people need to spend between home and work. How it does this isn´t always possible to understand but if you follow the advice from @smurphys7, as you say you do, they will mostly live close to their workplace. On rare occasions when I take nomads or if a child gets adult too soon for school, I often build a house for these persons close to a fisher or far away in a farming area. It´s likely that they become fisher/farmer. As Brad says; it´s not foolproof but works in most cases.

Don´t be so sorry about the boarding house. I seldom build any. Several reasons; I seldom take nomads and if I do, I have prepared for them with building materials, maybe also partly constructed houses so they will fast have a home. And later in a game where you want to take 100 nomads, you´ll need several of these ugly boarding houses. Some mods have really nice ones and I might build them and also use them but never the vanilla.

I hope you can understand at least a part of what I´ve written. If not, ask again. I promise; I will answer. I´m also pretty amused that you quote movies. I´m more the music kind of person so I occasionally quote songs. Once I named all my screenshots after the songs of one album. It looks like no one except me was amused!    

And one more thing; Don´t believe everything that Brad says; it´s not quite as confusing. No Banni girl living by her parents has ever had a child! I´m sure it was her little brother he saw in the same house.

[MarkAnthony]

Wow @Nilla , just wow!!! 

I am so grateful to you for spending so much time with me and explaining the answers you gave. Everything was clearly explained and there were so many explanations for many questions that I will also be bookmarking this as a reference until it all becomes rote memory to me.  And by the way, your use of English was never the problem, you are very well spoken. When I didn't understand something it wasn't your English or word choice I didn't understand, it was the concept being described that confused me. So don't ever worry about your use of English and never say you're sorry! Your command of the language is much better than most native speakers in 'Murica!  Lol 

You said, "fake demolish = demolish and immediately undo". When I read various forum posts and discussions that you and RedKetchup had with one another or with other people this "fake demolish" was mentioned from time to time. I assumed it was as easy as you described but I wanted to be sure. Now in practice, when I went to use this method myself it didn't quite work out as I expected. The citizens I kicked out, moved right back in. I would expect that to happen if I only demolished one home but as it was I demolished ten homes and nearly everyone or everyone (I don't recall now) went back as they were before. So what gives? Why did it that happen like that? I figured that by demolishing more than one home, those evicted citizens (the pool of homeless citizens) would mingle and mix together and when a home became available it would randomly reassign people from the pool the way we would want them to be, but that didn't happen.

There is a small difference in the way I did it though and I don't know if this is what caused that to happen. You said to "immediately undo". I thought to myself that if I did it immediately that nothing would change, that they would instantly go back as they were before because for example maybe they didn't even get a chance to step outside the home, or get enough distance away from the home to affect change. So what I did differently was, I hit the demolish button then waited for them to gather all their belongings, and after the homes were completely empty I waited for an additional five minutes or longer to let them mingle and mix together within the town; then I reclaimed the homes. But as I said they all went back almost exactly like they were before.

Normally after many people have died your settlement is fully developed and you don´t need to build anything during the recovery. In such a case it´s easy to set the number of builders to 0 and "demolish" the houses you don´t need for the moment. Since there are no builders no house will be destroyed. When there´s a new couple, undo the demolish. But don´t forget; no builders. If you assign one the house will soon be gone.

Emphasis mine. That's handy to know. I don't know if I would have ever thought to do that so thank you for the crucial tip! When I told you that after hitting the demolish button I waited for five minutes or longer and then hit reclaim, in hindsight I see now that it's possible I didn't have any builders available when I tried to do the fake demolish and pairings which allowed the homes to remain in an unused state for so long; but I didn't purposely set the number of builders to zero. Just a coincidence I suppose; but again it still didn't work as everybody went back to the way they were before.

-an adult male living with a student girl does not count as a family until the girl gets adult but an adult girl living with a student boy does.

So if I want to try to do some pairings and play match-maker I should look for an 11+ year old male student still living at home in one house and find a single older female living alone somewhere else, and then build a new home to accommodate them? Same for a 20yr+ single male living alone and either a single adult female with or without kids? How about a single middle-aged male and a single middle-aged woman, them too?

Don´t be so sorry about the boarding house. I seldom build any. Several reasons; I seldom take nomads and if I do, I have prepared for them with building materials, maybe also partly constructed houses so they will fast have a home. And later in a game where you want to take 100 nomads, you´ll need several of these ugly boarding houses. Some mods have really nice ones and I might build them and also use them but never the vanilla.

That's how I have been doing it in my last and current game; I pre-build the homes and pause them after they have all their materials gathered.

A question about boarding houses: In my previous game when I got my first Nomads, I forgot to build a boarding house for them though I did have a pre-built home waiting for them so I guess it didn't matter much in that case. In my current game after building the Town Hall I built a boarding house too (I remembered this time!). My question is: While I have been waiting for Nomads to arrive (they still haven't come yet) I have had several students become adults; how come they are not moving into the boarding house temporarily? I know it's not ideal, but they still can have children in a boarding house just at a slower rate is what I hear. I was expecting to see citizens who were ready to move out, make use of the boarding house since it sits empty.

Again @Nilla thank you so much! It's been very kind of you to teach and explain things to me, I am very appreciative!

P.S.
My fifth and current game has been the best so far, and I am still in vanilla Banished.     I came across a "Let's Play" YouTube series by a girl named Honeywell. She's super-fantastic! She's a micro-manager / pause-player like I am and also logistically inclined like me. She's easy to listen to, she doesn't swear and is always calm (which calms me), and she clearly explains why she does something without us watchers needing to guess. She also doesn't zip around the map like a maniac like most, and she's methodical and well... she's far better than any other Banished player on YouTube I have come across so far out of nine others. 

Sadly for me and all other new players to Banished, she no longer plays Banished - it's been a few years for her since she was last in game but her helpful and informative videos are priceless!!!  She even did a huge tunnel in episode one!!!  lol     She didn't build it of course, but she placed it down in future-planning her town for end-game!

You of course and the others here who are experienced Banished players may have no need for videos anymore, if at all ever but I really think they are worth watching regardless. I hope you'll check her out! Oh and she also showed her "qualifications" as it were by showing her Achievements window before she entered a new game in episode one. She has them all completed too like you guys! 

Here is the link to Honeywell's series episode one for Banished:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7vhVDECn5M


~MarkAnthony



               

[MarkAnthony]

I'm really enjoying Honeywell's Banished series on YouTube. I'm watching her episode four right now.

Oh @Nilla , I think you would be very pleased with her about the attention she gives her Banies.  She's always peeking into their homes looking for those who need their own place, much like you would I imagine. She concentrates primarily on Laborers. She even does the fake demolish when needed to fix mismatched couples assigned by the game. She's definitely a pro at it. This episode four is where she started needing to use the fake demolish.  You'd like her I'm sure. I feel like I have learned a lot from her.               

[brads3]

forcing bannies to do anything especially move is tedious and a lot of luck.  you did right by waiting for a few minutes so they walk around. part of them moving does depend on who walks by the soonest and their workplaces. they do prefer to be closer to work. this is evident if you watch the builders. they move as you begin construction here and there to be closer. more so than laborers, even thou i think the laborer is more needed. 

[MarkAnthony]

So if I want to try to do some pairings and play match-maker I should look for an 11+ year old male student still living at home in one house and find a single older female living alone somewhere else, and then build a new home to accommodate them? Same for a 20yr+ single male living alone and either a single adult female with or without kids? How about a single middle-aged male and a single middle-aged woman, them too?
           

Quoting myself here - I think instead of going into that much detail, I'll just concentrate on Laborers like Honeywell does in her videos. It seems so simple the way she does it and always works out as planned.  But I still wouldn't mind an answer about what I asked in the quoted section, though I think I may have been really off on the age of the 11yr old male student.

[brads3]

there are several ages that matter.i don't remember exactly what they are for vanilla speed.

age to become an adult/worker,or start school 10 for vanilla
age to move out from home   
age to move in with someone or be married,
age to graduate school, does depend on distance to school usually 16-24yrs old
child bearing age to begin having children
age they stop having babies i beleieve it is 40-45
death age,usually a range +/- 10-20 yrs
there is also a range to the age they will pair up with.so a 70yr old won't pair with a 18yr old

[MarkAnthony]

Thank you @brads3  =)  You've been good to me too despite all those things @Nilla says about you behind your back!      Just teasing of course.