Population Increase

So after playing the game for a couple of days I can only see a couple of areas where you can attampt to grow your popultaion.  The reason I am looking to do this is to get more workers, more army and generally more money to spend else where.

The granary is the obvious choice, but this only has a chance of a 0.5% increase per 50 food distributed. Is this correct.....or are we destined to have an area of only 3000 population for ever.......or have I missed something blanantly obvious somewhere...?

The help tip is wrong it's .2%.  At the beginning the granary is the only way, it gives you .6% per year.  As you progress there are technologies offering an additional .15% of population growth.  In 2 irl months (60 game years) you can probably reach 4000-4500 population depending on your armies

OK George thanks for the notes.  I will ust have to manage my people fairly closely to achieve thebest results.

Yes that's the best you can do for thhe first 10 days (years) or so.

Just to follow up a bit. A population increase of 0.6% (from all 3 food distributions per year) means that in 10 years your population would grow from 3000 to 3185. I'm new, but it seems to me that 10% of your peasants are available as labor (300 of 3000 total population). So it seems that in 10 years (real-life days), you would go from 300 workers to 318 workers. For those that are experienced with the game, does this look right?

Yes.

I have noticed however that the food you add in to get the additional increase of 0.2% slowly decreases as time passes.  Basically once it drops down, you can add in more food to get the 0.2% increase again, toa maximum of 0.6%.

Please correct me if this is a bug, but I doubt it, and therefore presume the highest % increase for the granary is 0.6%.

I noticed something different from what you noticed, Regnavats. What I saw is the population bonus drop in 0.20% chunks. I think what happens is that each 0.20% bonus from distributing food is good for one full year. When it expires the following year, the bonus disappears. Each 0.2% from food distribution is tracked separately. Is that what you notice?

each 0.20% bonus from distributing food is good for one full year. When it expires the following year, the bonus disappears. Each 0.2% from food distribution is tracked separately.

That is correct.

+ the bonus is smaller when your population is big enough (if i remember correctly)

+ the cost of distributing food increases with your population