Population

Population is vital for a strong kingdom. It is, simply put, the amount of people that live in your Castle. People needed to work in the Buildings and to become soldiers.

There are two types of Population:

• Working Population – these are the people that work in Buildings and in the Army. These people work hard, in the Castle or in Battle, for the prosperity of the kingdom.
• Free population – this is the Population that is left when you subtract the Working Population form the Total population. These people wait for you to benevolently assign them a task, so they can do their share in helping the kingdom.

Population is used for:

• To work in Buildings – the Resource Buildings have a minimum of Population required for them to work. If you place additional workers in these Buildings their production increases. The Blacksmith doesn’t require Population, but if you place workers in it Upgrading will finish faster. To change the amount of Population in a building, double-click on the Building to open its information panel and use the slider (you have to click on "Save changes" for the changes to apply). If you have Free Population, but are unable to send workers to a Building, this means that the Building has to be upgraded to a higher level in order to take more workers.
• To train Units – every Unit requires a certain amount of Free Population to be trained. A sword and armor are useless without a soldier. After all we have to find someone to train and to send to fight.

Ways to gain Population:

• Dwellings – population is gained by developing the Dwellings. A higher level Dwellings provides more room and thus more Population can live in your Castle.
• Hire Population – you can use the Hire Population option to increase your Population by 20%. The hired Population works just as well as regular people who live in the Castle.

The maximum Population depends on the level of the Dwellings. No Castle can have more than 50 894 maximum Population (Even if you activate Hire Population option).