Morale and Population

[Geoffers747]

As always you come, post something witty or awesome (in this case the latter) and then disappear into the night.

It all looks very slick! The sword emblem/flag in the top left, is that gonna be customisable?

@Tom

If your town morale is high, new settlers will come and ask to join you.

@Ramcat

In sort it seems you’re deviating from the original descriptions of the citizen/worker acquisition model you described in the kickstarter days and early streams, what gives?

I might have forgotten this but where about was it mentioned that you would have to pay for new workers? I remember talk around increasing your population and the early thoughts were that if you had enough food new workers would come and ask to join.

@Ramcat

that enthralled me about StoneHearth was you describing me being able to make that decision of if I want a new worker. I the player have to do the hard math - do I have enough food, do I have enough defence

Arguably nothing here has changed? You still have to ensure that you have enough food stockpiled to accommodate new units and adequate shelter/ defence. By the sounds of it you still have the choice of whether you accept new units, it’s just that rather expanding through just your food you now expand via morale.