what's the most citizens you've ever had?

[Jon_jon13]

165 - And it's all funny when I give an order to do something like a mass mining project with the way that the Townies all swarm like ants in an ant farm. But then comes the ting ting ting ting ting of mining which isn't so funny.

I imagine something more like TI-TI-TI-TI-TING TI-TI-TI-TI-TING TI-TI-TI-TI-TING TI-TI-TI-TI-TING

[linkguy333]

Wait, this may seem noobish, BUT TOWNIES REPRODUCE? HOW?

[caprontos]

Wait, this may seem noobish, BUT TOWNIES REPRODUCE? HOW?

if they stand around long enough and happily enough people magically appear on the map.. That is the only way they reproduce.

[Kenthen]

I feel like I'm doing it wrong when some people have hundreds of townies and I've only gotten up to 30 or so on my longest game. But then I prefer the smaller scale anyway, as long as both works it's all good to me, it's just that I personally don't feel that it's in the spirit of things to have so many people. Well, I mean there's still lots of room for me to expand, I just don't like that crazy super efficient way of doing things where for example every townie gets a super tiny room, perfectly sized so the perfect amount of the perfect things can be crammed in there.

[Eggbert2.0]

I have my biggest town so far at the moment. I have 80 townies and they all have their own room, walls and roof and everything, above ground, with some decorations in it. I had heaps of iron at one stage so they all got their own clock.

I'm trying to get up to 100 soon but haven't even used up 1/4 of the map - I don't understand why people are having so much trouble building above ground

[City Builder]

I don't have a problem building above ground, but with only one level houses I'd just prefer to build underground. Once 0.50 hits and we have multiple story buildings then I'll be building above ground almost all the time.

I enjoy having massive amounts of Townies at my beckon call, as it allows me to be more efficient in massive dig or harvesting projects. I really dislike sitting staring at the screen while waiting on 30 townies trying to mine out a large dig project even though for the most part I enjoy just watching my townies go about their daily lives. But inefficiency just drives me up the wall some times so I just keep feeding a large lazy population of Townies that 90% of the time do nothing but eat and stand around the arenas.

In my current game I'm shooting for 200 pop then maybe 250 (currently at 128, but my highest was around 165 before). It all depends on when 0.50 hits us as to whether or not I'll manage to get that population.

[NiwatiX]

about ~100 pop

until.... super giant spider siege... lost game :/

[Eggbert2.0]

Up to 146 now. Starting to have some minor lag.

[Edge]

266 in my current desert game. They eat Unifallow steak, and feed themselves with a little help. It works better with the debuffs from raw meat disabled, the large eating time is already a big penalty. I have over 300 Unifallow farms, and a few fences to stop them straying too far. It was more than i needed, but better to err on the safe side, i thought.
I often seemed to have to manually order a lot of butchering to keep the food supplies up, it seemed that the automatic butchering only happened with close unifallow, of which there aren't many for long. I need someone to herd the far ones into town.
When i didn't get a 16th hero, i first went from 256 to 266 in case of some sort of wierd error, then started a mountain game for more space to build bedrooms.

400 in my current mountains game. The second floor has 16 dormitories of 25 personal rooms. They eat omlette, and are having no trouble feeding themselves. Still only 15 heroes. I have less than 50 chicken farms, and it's possibly a lot more than i needed, not that
it matters. There's a fair bit of afk while waiting for the peasants to turn up.

In either case it runs very smoothly so long as i don't leave much on the ground, except when wall building.

[wizardjian]

The mining is a pain when you forgot that you have sound on, wearing headphones and have 200+ miners >.<
i couldnt hear right for 3 days lol it was like a nuke crossed with a jackhammer with a dash of "nail on chalkboard effect"/
one way to say it is Hell. lol