Village People

[cepiolot]

How can I have more than eight colonists working in a village at one time?

 

[dalgo]

How can I have more than eight colonists working in a village at one time?

Normally you should be able to have more than eight. However the game will not allow you to add a new colonist if the colony is starving, even if it is a farmer that you want to use to balance your food supply. The way to get around this is to temporarily re-assign colonists to work in the fields until you have enough food and then you can add the new colonist.

 

[cepiolot]

What about just the square part in the top-right corner?

 

[dalgo]

No, the size of your colony is fixed. There is no expansion as there is in Civ.

 

[Abaddon]

stuck with that im afriad

 

[cepiolot]

then whats the point of having lots of land in one city?

 

[dalgo]

Build more colonies. If you use CxxC spacing you can utilize all your land.

 

[Malkaviel]

then whats the point of having lots of land in one city?

The border expansions provide a couple benefits. They increase sight range from your city, and potentially deny competing european powers from utilizing those tiles if they get too close.

Adversely, if your border grows without control it can overlap native-owned tiles and force a diplomacy "hit" from stealing their land, likely causing them to attack you.