Rod
Pleb
posted 10-19-00 06:19 ET (US)
Is there a way of finding out how many people come on each immigrant cart, and what proportion of them are children, and what their approx age is?
Smack
Pleb
posted 10-19-00 11:47
ET (US)
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No. But you can find out by remembering what it is that is making them come and using the fact that each cart services one house. If you just evolved a bunch of small insulae to medium, most of those immigrants are probably one-person carts, because each 1-tile insula increased its capacity by one person. If you placed a lot of new housing, or made a higher-level evolution, the capacity of each tile increased by a greater amount, so each cart holds more people.
paultheo
Banned
posted 10-19-00 15:36
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3 / 10
I think Theo covered that topic in a fairly recent thread concerning births...
Brugle
HG Alumnus
posted 10-19-00 20:05
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Hi Rod,
An immigrant cart can hold 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 people. I don't know the age distribution, but on average just over 40% of them work. (As the population ages, eventually less of them work, but that effect is minor for perhaps 15 years.)
Theo
Pleb
posted 10-20-00 14:04
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My original; data was the average of 8 cities at the end of the first year.
Average age 26.8 years
Minimum age 0 years
Maximum age 50 years
Schoolkids 14.3%
Academy youths 11.7%
Workforce 44.4%
Since then my observations show that immigrants come in two types. Those going to vacant lots are mainly 5 or 2 to a cart. If a house forms a 2by2 the immigrants on the map disappear and the 2by2 only contains those already in residence.
Immigrants going to fill evolving housing are 4 to a cart if the house has room for 7 or more and enough to fill the house if there are 6 vacancies or less.
At any time there is only one immigrant cart on the map for an evolving house and there is a short delay before the next cart appears. I think that homeless are chosen first but I have no data.
Smack
Pleb
posted 10-20-00 23:36
ET (US)
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Homeless are NOT chosen first. I have built new housing after mass exoduses (exodi?), and only a few of the homeless turned around.
And I can swear that in Mediolanum (I helped my cousin with it recently) I saw something that looked very amusingly like one immigrant riding on another.