Population
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Population represents the number of people living in your colony. The higher the population, the more workers you will have. When you start a new game, you will have some initial population.
Gaining population
- Adaption from villages for unity
- Natural growth based on health of your colony
- Population growth edict can increase your population growth by 0.40/0.20/?% for each tier, and costing 1 unity per month.
- Exploration of the world map. You can find people along side loot.
Losing population
- Low colony Health, where you lose 0.1% of population for each health point below 0, e.g. at -3 health you will lose 0.3% of population each month.
- Disease, each disease comes with a fixed amount of population being lost, even if your health is above 0
- Flu -0.2/-0.4/-0.8% depending on the flu severity.