Are you looking for a way to manage population and keep it from growing in Microcivilization? Here’s how to balance housing and population.
To manage the population and prevent it from growing, focus on building houses and if it gets out of control, let the Great Plague wipe off your population and you’ll be able to get them back quickly.
Let’s go through how the population system works, how to manage it, and what to do when it keeps growing and gets out of control.
Population Explained in Microcivilization – How to Manage it
Population is one of the most important metrics to manage in Microcivilization, alongside housing. If your population is too high and lack housing, you will end up with Vagabonds. Too many Vagabonds will cause the Great Plague crisis, which can wipe your population entirely.
Similarly, if you have too many unoccupied houses and your population is low, there’s a high chance of causing a fire crisis that can burn down most houses. Thus, it’s important to balance population and housing.
To manage it, always keep an eye on food and housing and focus on producing (with clicks or extra research) the one that you’re lacking. Let’s go through some extra tips next to help you prevent the great plague from overpopulation.
How to Prevent Population From Growing in Microcivilization
While it may sound counterintuitive, the best way to prevent and balance Population growth is by letting get fixed on its own. Specifically, this means letting the Great Plague or the Fire crisis happen and starting again.
After all, in the medium-to-late-game stages of Microcivilization, it’s easy for either population or housing to get out of control.
However, if the Great Plague crisis happened and you don’t want to lose your population after all, here’s how to survive the Great Plague in Microcivilization.
Another useful tip that could help short term is using the Autocracy rule. This kills 0.5% of your population, which keeps the Vagabond numbers to a minimum.
Wrapping up
To summarize, the best way to manage the population and keep it from growing in Microcivilization is by letting the great plague reset your population and starting again.
While you can try to counter-act it by producing more houses, it will be tricky to balance in the late game, especially as you have to deal with other crises.
Do you have any population or housing tips to offer? Do you have an issue with Vagabonds or house fires more often? Feel free to comment your thoughts below.
For more game progression guides, here’s how to Ascend in Microcivilization and everything we know about Ascension 2.
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