What? turtling is fun especially in sp. on a more serious not a strong empire should be able to crush little empire np but this might help prevent the steamroller effect if the person gets careless............but idk might add a layer of drudgery late game " oh nos i was so busy pwning ppl my safety dropped and i have o pop".

maybe maybe not

im not saying town at war causes ppl to leave im saying. oh no our sovereign wont protect us from raging beasts we should go to the other kingdom where they have nice beast free towns.

Edit: also the main point of the thread is not siphoning my idea: could there be a safety stat that determines population growth instead of linear growth. heck u could even base the pop growth off of amt of essence invested or size of teh colony.

That picture is funny!

This idea of pulling people owards you seems not a bit engaging imo. I prefer management on my side being a major factor rather than safety. Also in reality rivaling kingdoms are prone to think highly of themselves and less about their neighbours. So even if the neighbour seems safer people are not very likely to leave their country.

I prefer managing towns to be the major factor in growth. In the end, if you make the countryside safe you settle more cities because you will have safe and good sites to do so. In a way the ' safety' is therefoe already a factor even if the game does not quantify it in any way and the actuall people you gain per turn is not related to that.

Isn't reliable access to food and water a basic part of safety? The smilie has me wondering if I'm missing a joke. Sometimes my humour algorithms go offline without notice...