Slaves, Hostages and Prisoners of War

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Update on my thinking on Immigrants and Refugees

Immigrants may or may not be automated at the players decression. Refugees are always automated.

Immigrants

If Immigrants are not automated they will be able to join any city with population less than 7 or has the Metropolitan Administration building or better. This basically reflects the realistic flow to either new frontiers or big cities.

If they are automated (ie the AI and if chosen by the player) they will consider cities which

1. are producing excess food
2. have room for more people
   • no administration building and population 5 or less
   • Village Hall and population 12 or less
   • Town Hall and population 24 or less
   • City Hall and population 35 or less
   • Metropolitan Administration or better (no population limit)

The immigrant will then look at the approx distance to the city and choose the closest target.

If there are no cities available they will join the slums in the nearest city. They may create the slums (building) and will add a new settled specialist Slum Tenant which uses the same food as a population and adds crime to the city. If we have such a thing as a Slum Lord then it should add to the city based on the number of Tenants. This needs expanding on - how dose it fit with the "New Town" concept and other slum clearance ideas.​

Refugees

Refugees are always automated. They will use the same criteria as Immigrants but will have a limited range. If they can't find a target city in that range they will build a Refugee Camp (plot improvement) as near to a city as possible or join an extsiting Refugee Camp to make a Refugee Village and so on (Village -> Town -> City). The plot chosen will not have an improvement on it and must not be being worked by a city.​

 

[Thunderbrd]

If there are no cities available they will join the slums in the nearest city. They may create the slums (building) and will add a new settled specialist Slum Tenant which uses the same food as a population and adds crime to the city. If we have such a thing as a Slum Lord then it should add to the city based on the number of Tenants. This needs expanding on - how dose it fit with the "New Town" concept and other slum clearance ideas.

Interesting. Why not just make them another population but then add another feature to reflect disadvantaged citizenry?

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Because this way you can have more than one and you can have all sorts of extra things to do with your Great Engineers and the Engineer line of units.

You would need to count such as population when considering where new ones would settle. Ooo ghettoes...

 

[CainStar]

Just a quick question. I had this "problem" in previous games, and I can't seem to recall if this was a bug or perhaps an intended feature. So as the "formula" goes you have captured slave join city, so that you can then assign a slave to specific job science, hammer, gold, health etc. etc. The amount of slaves that you can assign to a specific "job" is roughly 50% of the "free slaves", which you have join the city first. So for some reason I am unable to have new slaves join the city as "free slaves", and of course this is preventing me from assign slaves to the "health profession", which I use to "boost" my capital. I am able assign slaves to some of the other jobs which I haven't "filled" fully, well pretty much any other job than health. So what happened why can't I join new "free slaves" anymore? None of the my Civics "say" that i am no longer able "use" slaves. Is there a wonder that is preventing this? Does "free slaves" become somehow connected to city population at some point? My capital has population on 37 and has 186 "free slaves" joined.

EDIT: Just to clear things up. In my capital I have:
182(Settled Slaves)
81(Production Slaves)
50(Commerce Slaves)
91(Health Slaves).
So something is preventing me from increasing the number of 'Settled Slaves', so that I could add more 'Health Slaves'.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

There is a rough limit of ten slaves per population but it varies a bit due to buildings, civics and other stuff. You have 404 settled slaves which is more than the rough limit of 370 that the city should have.

It turns out that you can add "Settled Slaves" up until you have ten times the population limit of total Slaves. However you can still add special Slaves up to the limit of half the settled slaves after that.

 

[CainStar]

There is a rough limit of ten slaves per population but it varies a bit due to buildings, civics and other stuff. You have 404 settled slaves which is more than the rough limit of 370 that the city should have.

It turns out that you can add "Settled Slaves" up until you have ten times the population limit of total Slaves. However you can still add special Slaves up to the limit of half the settled slaves after that.

I was wondering if the slaves were "connected" to city population somehow, so I tried to increase my capital pop. with food caravans. Went from 36 to 40......ONE POP SORT OF SOLVING THIS ON MY OWN....graaahhhhh..... Thanks for the help Dancing

 

[Mag Co]

Why do we still have settled citizens on the code if we don't use them?

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Why do we still have settled citizens on the code if we don't use them?

I don't understand the question.

If you mean the Citizen population specialist then that one is used when moving population specialists from one type to others and when there is no more room for population specialists and you still have some spare in the city, perhaps from free ones from buildings.

 

[Mag Co]

I don't understand the question.

If you mean the Citizen population specialist then that one is used when moving population specialists from one type to others and when there is no more room for population specialists and you still have some spare in the city, perhaps from free ones from buildings.

No. I meant the Settled Citizens (-1 +2:Hammers: +1 +3 crime +1 +1) specialist, not the unemployed citizens (+1:Hammers one. They are still in the code and in World Edit. Nowdays they are useless, right?

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

No idea. Not one of mine as far as I know.

My version does not have the crime BTW.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Also you can't remove a specialist from the game without breaking saves.