Migration system is nice. Otherwise you can build units and send the unit pop another city, but it's boring micro-managment.

For Starvation, I think a little bit of revamp.

Population usually still gains and drops as normal.  

However, population gains and losses are not reported for cities of 10 pop or more, unless due to the Agrarian ability

Outposts only report when they have 4 population

If a city has a food Shortfall, There is a "Starvation Level"

Starvation level=Population*(1-Food Produced/Food Consumed)   [this number is slightly more than number of pops you will need to lose to get back into balance]

If it is Greater than 2 you have 

-a warning "Starvation!!" 

-Each turn Stability (current not target) drops by Starvation Level*5

-after ?? Turns you lose an additional amount of pop equal to the current Starvation Level.

Krikkitone wrote:

For Starvation, I think a little bit of revamp.

Population usually still gains and drops as normal.  

However, population gains and losses are not reported for cities of 10 pop or more, unless due to the Agrarian ability

Outposts only report when they have 4 population

If a city has a food Shortfall, There is a "Starvation Level"

Starvation level=Population*(1-Food Produced/Food Consumed)   [this number is slightly more than number of pops you will need to lose to get back into balance]

If it is Greater than 2 you have 

-a warning "Starvation!!" 

-Each turn Stability (current not target) drops by Starvation Level*5

-after ?? Turns you lose an additional amount of pop equal to the current Starvation Level.

This solution feels over designed and complicates something that should be a simple mechanic.

Corgiwealth wrote:

K

This solution feels over designed and complicates something that should be a simple mechanic.

Its basically what you said though

3 states: Growing (+1 pop..+1 pop, etc.), Stagnating (+1 pop followed by -1 pop), Starving (-Xpop and stability penalties)

Growing is Food Made>>Eaten

Stagnating is Food Made ~= Eaten (but there will be +- based on the fact that you don't get fractional population)

Starvation is Food Made<<Eaten

If you could get Fractional population (can't be assigned or do anything useful, but still eats food) then you would just need Growth/Starvation

That might be the simpler situation, Cities and Outposts can have fractional pop that they gain/lose each turn... the only thing fractional pop is counted in is the food consumption (for Simplicity)

[essentially the "Progress on the Population bar" is added to actual Population to determine food consumption.]

Ill add on something less related but have been wanting: Pop growth cap should not stay at 1 pop. This already affects the viability of food cultures in faster game speeds where populations are generally smaller due to growth cap, so food is less relevant. This also affects population recovery from building units in the late game, as pop costs for units increase but there is nothing to help replenish pops faster. You would think that the massive amounts of food from the Farmer's Quarters you have will help your population catch up faster, but you're overcapping food by so much that it has basically no effect on pop growth. The growth cap could be made to increase with things like infrastructure, attached territories or techs, while costing more food to get close to the growth cap. This will help make food in the late game more worth focusing on and buff cultures like Mexicans and Brazilians.