Population: Meaningless after a City hits Level 5? » Forum Post by The

Try getting a Death Archmage

All those people are just waiting to boost your mana pool. More mana = more casts of Destiny's Gift or Insight = better champs.

JJ

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I believe you can also get extra city defenders based on your population, even after level 5 (but I do not know exactly when they appear).

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Well, I'm about to start an Empire faction for the first time, so I'll keep an eye out for Death Archmage. A growth per turn of 10 is useful for that, then?

I looked at my old savegames, and I sadly overwrote the game where I had multiple level 5's of the same city type. Within Conclave level 3's and Town level 4's, they all seemed to have the same number of freebie garrison troops.

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Death Magic V gives a spell Sacrifice (please, correct me if I got spell level wrong) which sacrifices half of the population in a player's city and every sacrificed people gives 1 mana instead.

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mqpiffle

Join Date 10/2010

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Your tax income increases solely on population.

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That's no longer the case. Tax is now based on city level (the hub provides the income). The OP is correct, the actual population no longer matters after you gain the city level (this actually applies somewhat to lower levels as well as lv5 - if you know you can't get to lv5). This is something I pointed out during beta 4 when the system was changed, but no one else seemed to care. As it is, you want to cast your +grain and +food spells so that you can get to lv5 (or the next level), then replace those spells with something else.

Sacrifice is just another example of that cheese.

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mqpiffle

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Where the f have I been?

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Quoting Kalin,

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That's no longer the case. Tax is now based on city level (the hub provides the income). The OP is correct, the actual population no longer matters after you gain the city level (this actually applies somewhat to lower levels as well as lv5 - if you know you can't get to lv5). This is something I pointed out during beta 4 when the system was changed, but no one else seemed to care. As it is, you want to cast your +grain and +food spells so that you can get to lv5 (or the next level), then replace those spells with something else.

Sacrifice is just another example of that cheese.

Whoa- so if I am understanding you correctly, once a city hits level 5 it will stay at level 5 with a population of 20? So level 5 cities (and level 4's that will never reach 5) are mana batteries?

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Yes and yes (and not just mana, they make tons of gold and research even if they have no population).

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Good to know- and my mana comment was directed towards sacrificing the population to make mana. So, mana in addition to the normal output of a city. Unless there is a way to sacrifice citizens to make gold and research as well? I'm still pretty new to this game...

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