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The pop loss formula
Does anybody have the poploss formula saved?
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+ Population
- If (residences + barracks) < 4% of total land your people begin to lose faith in your leadership and defect:
If (land < 1000)
Land / 4 OR Population * .025-0.05 (Whichever causes the kingdom to lose more population)
Else If (land < 5000)
Land / 6 OR Population * .025-0.05 (Whichever causes the kingdom to lose more population)
Else If (land < 50000)
Land / 8 OR Population * .025-0.05 (Whichever causes the kingdom to lose more population)
Else (anything over)
Land / 10 OR Population * .025-0.05 (Whichever causes the kingdom to lose more population)
you got sob of the top 10 yet?
Will not reveal but his pretty high up.
BTW, it's not necessarily that. the land/x formula only goes into effect if the result is more than 3-5% of your population. Every tick the game figures out a random percentage between 3-5% and chooses between the two formulas and whichever is higher then it chooses that.
Example: If it chooses 3.2% one tick and land/6 is higher then it chooses land/6, but next tick if it chooses 4.9% and land/6 is lower than that it goes with 4.9%.
Your poploss can never be less than 100, thus if 5% of your pop equals something like 80 and land/x is lower or higher or whatever then the game defaults to 100.
In addition if the land/x forumla is inapplicable because it hasn't met the threshhold (whatever the hell it is) then the game chooses between 100 default and % formula. This happens during pks occasionally and WGs and ALs scream POPBUG because they don't understand it.
Example: a 9,000 land kingdom is kidnapped down to 2000 population and has significant overflow to die. Land/4 is 2250 so he should die, right? 5% of 2000 is 100, the default is 100, and 2250 is higher than both. But what if Land/4 is inapplicable? I've seen people try to pk thinking that you only need to account for overflow, that is, res space+barrack space-military units<1. They think they save pas for kidnapping by not arsoning or only arsoning enough. This is faulty because more likely than not land/x is not available. It only works because sometimes they arson say to... 8% and then the missiles destroy sufficient residences (maybe barracks too) to get them below say 4%. Then when the kd loses only 100 pop they wonder why. Here's a hint to people for the purpose of pks: If the player has no open land and has no residences in production BE VERY CAUTIONED. I believe that the threshhold is similar to the building destruction formula when you use missiles. (Missiles take into account open land. Think about it. Missiles destroy a proportion of land so how can your residences ever drop below 5% otherwise? The same proportion will always be destroyed. It configures a hidden percentage of buildings already built versus the empty/building upon land.)
My theory is that Bcart messed up a long time ago and accidentaly put in that the percentage lost was based on already built land only and based it upon the amount of total land and used percent built+building/land for the other side of the equation. Notice how trying to pk someone with no land being built on affects this.
Think about that. 0 res, even 1 million barracks STILL LEAVES NO ROOM FOR POPULATION.
A few max pop missile strikes and kidnaps later he died with his barrack capacity around 70%