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Hi all,

When playing I often experience situation when in well prospering village the population increases above the level that the food supply can support and out of the sudden everyone die from starvation.

Has maybe anyone done some calculation what farm size is needed for a given population size (with and without clothing)?
Nonetheless even knowing the numbers I think its pretty hard to manage the population cap. When everyone is doing their jobs and going back and forth it's hard to count everyone in large village. The non-unique appearance makes it even harder when there are clones in village.

Has anyone found out any reliable method of population management?
If think one of the solution might be a dedicated "hive queen": one woman that is the only one that can raise babies. Such queen will need to estimate how many people the village can support and decide according to it how many children can be raised and which need to starve. I think it might be quite expensive to have a person that only rise babies and eat, but in large villages it might be worth it. After getting too old for breast feeding such queen would pass her duties to another younger woman and change role to other e.g. farmer, smith, cook.