Negative Population Bug!?

[Alpy]

Hi

I am wondering if anyone can tell me why I have negative pop growth in my mtn province.
-650 and rising! 
I disbanded some troops there but why should this cause the pop clock to run backwards?
 
Secret virus is killing my troops 

Btw this is in realm 8

[steveempire]

Its in the manual
Disbanding troops in mountain can be major cause of pop loss

Population growth  is 1/1000+30

If you have population of 1000 people, the growth is 31 per hour (1+30).

Example: In case it is 10 000 the growth will be 40 (10+30).

- Building Granaries, researching Medicine, as well as activating Healers Guild can raise your population growth.
- After reaching 100 000 population in a province, the growth speed starts dropping with increasing rate until it stops.Basic population limits for each terrain is:

Mountains with forests 140 000
Mountains 150 000
Hills 160 000
Hills with forests 160 000
Plains with forests 170 000
Plains 180 000

- These limits can be considerably exceeded by building Granaries, developing the Medicine and activating Healers guild.
- In order to increase the limit of the population, larger farms need to be constructed.

[Alpy]

Yes it seems that I ran in disbanding troops problem 
It used to be the way to increase pop in mtn provinces but this must be a more recent limitation.

Farms are fine; granary very high so the issue was caused by the disbanding of a lot of troops.
Sux. When will it stop I wonder?

[steveempire]

  trick is to disband troops and employ all at once...then never touch employ buttons again.  The pop only disappears when you employ.
buy more growth research

[Alpy]

Never touch employ button ever again? 
Problem is its plugged up for a very long time with fort building ... wld love to order more granaries but they won't be done for a very long time 
I thought I had all my bases covered with extra farms and the like...I had no idea that this wld trigger negative growth. 

So are you saying that I just should not employ any more workers in that prov until I can order new granaries? 

[Alpy]

Should I hire them as troops?
Will that help the situation?

thanks for answering this query steve 

[steveempire]

yes, dont touch employ button
try to research growth thru alliance or personal

[Alpy]

what about hiring as troops.
I guess that's another pop loss so that will only make things worse 

[steveempire]

freeing pop to make soldiers will make lost people disappear...but it may stop the losses.  Up to you man

[samyoboy]

researching medicine, build granery's, make sure guilds built to max lvl(10) and healers guild active. Then don't forget about alliance research medicine can be increased there to. all of these will help counter pop loss and incourage growth.