City Population and Buildings Information

[Alexandros]

Basic Information

There are four levels of city: Small, Medium, Large, and Huge. Each level over small requires a certain level of population to obtain. For each population level, you can add three more buildings. Thus small gives three and huge gives twelve. The population/buildings that the level gives you is as follows.

Small: 0-1,999 Populace; 0/3 Buildings
Medium: 2,000-4,999 Populace; 0/6 Buildings
Large: 5,000-12,999; 0/9 Buildings
Huge: 13,000+; 0/12 Buildings.

What does population do?

Population does several things. Populations of each location have a dominate race, which is listed in the city information. This factor can change over time, but it'll require the city to pass back and forth between factions several times, and for each faction to execute the population. The various races and their loyalties are as follows.

Anthromorphic: Rogues of the same race and Imperial Sobek
Orcs: Rogues of the same race and Orsinium
Elves: Rogues of the same race, Orsinium, and Jericho
Humans: Imperial Sobek, Rogues of the same race, and Jericho
Dwarves: Rogues of the same race and Jericho
Vampires: Rogues of the same race, Asyut, Imperial Sobek, and Orsinium.
Demons (Endless Dunes Only): Rogues of the same race, Imperial Sobek, and Orsinium.

Execute The Populace?

Whenever a faction (Empire or Rogue) captures a region, they have a choice to execute the populace of 1/4th the population, leaving, in the least, 400 citizens. This not only makes the place more loyal, due to less citzens to troops ratio, but also makes it easier to pacify if you are an outsider (Such as if Jericho takes Alexandria). The down side? If the city has a tax collector building, the money the region makes from that goes down. As well, it reduces the size of the city.

I Took A City Of My Race(Or Empire)'s Loyality, And They Still Are Disloyal, Why?

Just because you take a city that is of your loyalty, doesn't mean that it will be loyal right away. At times, at all, unless executed. Large populaces, while the majority will be of the listed race, will still have other races living there that may or may not hold loyality to their past masters. Thus a large city might still be disloyal, where as a medium might be more tolerable. (Note: Small cities are almost always loyal, no matter the conqeror's faction or race!)

[Raphael Augustus]

Cities are one of the most important items that one can attain in the Darkness Falls world. there are several benefits to having a city, that which is money, free troops, and a population. In the next few minutes I will go over some of the basics, and how to attain certain things.

To start, you need a city first off. You can either start one, or take one over from one of the three main empires in the DF world. However, due to the fact that most people will have to start one, I shall explain it from there, and then explain outward.

So let us say you wish to own a city, first you must build it. There are several steps associated with this, and these will put you not only on the map, but also give you some pride and joy. First off, you need 25,000 gold, and at least 5,000 troops to start a city. Then comes the second part, you must inform the editor of the map (That would be me, Raphael, though you can pm it to any other admin) through pm that you wish to start a city. When you are forming your pm (private message) you must remember I have no idea where you wish this city to be. There are two ways you can do this, you can make a .jpg, .gif, .bmp, or a host of other image editors, or you can say it is to the east of (exp.) Rolaga. Remember, keep it in the lines of the provinces. Then you must come up with a name. Make sure these two things are in the pm, or you won’t own the city, nor will it show up on the forum. Also feel free to choose a color (besides white or any other color that is all ready taken). Got it? Good. Next!

All cities when first starting are small cities. Small cities have a population of 0 (when starting) to 2000 (When this happens, it shall advance to a Medium City), as well as only 3 (for a lack of a better word) zones. These zones are very important as they shall decide how they city grows. There are several things you can put on these zones, through buying. Barracks, houses, markets, stables, and archery ranges to name a few. Due to the fact that it is a small city, you can only build a barracks, house, market and archery range.

So let us say this city is Asyut, and I have recently finished a quest and now wish to help my city expand. I would then go to the building market and purchase a house. Now I will put the house on one of the zones. The house will improve my population limit by 250, and thus, speed up my small city population. Soon though Volyan has asked me to add him in defense from the forces of Jericho. I go there and help defend, after receiving rewards, (both rp [role-playing] and plus some from Volyan for his thanks. Now that I have some money I go back to the market and decided to buy a barracks. The barracks up my troop count at the end of the role-playing week, and thus I can refill my army faster.

A week goes by and I have some more money, I then buy another house, to bring my population up another 250, to round it out at 500 (if you don’t have a house, it goes up 500 a week, with two houses it now goes up 1000 a week). Now I can advance my city to the next level, medium, so after paying the money to advance it, it becomes a Medium City after about a day.

Now I want to advance my lands, but I don‘t want to pay another 25,000 gold to do it, so looking to my left, I see the undefended city of Rolaga, and I set my forces out to attack it. I also send a messenger to Volyan, asking him to attack the orc territory to spread out the orc forces. With victory achieved, I can now march into the city. However, this is something else I need to remember. Rolaga is filled with savage angry orcs, and I know should an orc general arrive, I might be fighting a two front war. So in the end I know I need to exterminate some of them. Rolaga is a medium sized city, with about 4000 orcs in it. By exterminating them, the population drops to about 1000, while small and more manageable, it will take longer for the city to become a large city, however, by buying a market, I can increase the cash flow coming from the city, and thus by some houses for it, to push up the population.

Coming back to the capital, I look at the market, and see tier 2 buildings. Wonder what they are? Tier 2 buildings are buildings the can only be build in medium cities and higher. These might be better houses, a more productive market, stables, and better barracks that produce tier 2 units. It is smart to convert your buildings into these, also, don’t be afraid to demo other buildings to make way for new ones. In the more advanced tiers (4-5) buildings might actually take up two zones, however, they are by far better than what you are previously using, though you may have to sacrifice a house or two.

Also as a side note, cities can not devolve, so don’t worry about exterminating a medium city, and it in turn, become a small city. You also get any buildings inside the city, unless the enemy sets it on fire, and you don’t put it out in time. However, it may be only partially damaged, and all you must do is pay a little gold to repair it.

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