Increase population with public grievance
It is harder to increase population in Evony with public grievance, but it is definitely possible. Both public grievance, tax rate and loyalty is related to how fast your population will grow. As you have probably noticed, the the lower your tax rate is the faster your population increase is. You can see this from the table posted below that your population increase per tick with 0% tax rate is 5%. This is the maximum possible population increase per tick that you can have. A tick happens every 6 minutes in Evony, then Evony will update loyalty, population and gold for each city you have. This happens at the same time for all cities on the server.
Every tick Evony updates loyalty, and either increases it by 1, keeps it the same or decreases it by 1. Loyalty will also change if you are attacked, but this has nothing to do with ticks. Loyalty is changed in a way so that:
Loyalty + Tax Rate + Public Grievance = 100
The game tries to make these numbers as close to 100 as possible. With say 5 public grievance, 50 tax rate and 50 loyalty, Evony will decrease loyalty by one each tick until it reaches 45. Occupancy is the percentage of your population maximum that you currently have. If your population maximum is 30,000 and your current population is 20,000, then occupancy would be 20,000/30,000 which is about 67%. Occupancy always wants to be as close to loyalty as possible, so if loyalty is higher than 67 population will increase each tick, if it’s lower than 67 it will decrease each tick. The increase or decrease rate is related to tax rate, like I said earlier, and is posted in the table below.
| Tax Rate | Increase | Decrease |
|---|---|---|
| 0% | 5% | 0% |
| 10% | 4.5% | 0.5% |
| 20% | 4% | 1% |
| 50% | 2.5% | 2.5% |
| 80% | 1% | 4% |
| 90% | 0.5% | 4.5% |
| 95% | 0.25% | 4.75% |
| 98% | 0.1% | 4.9% |
| 99% | 0.05% | 4.95% |
| 100% | 0% | 5% |
As you see the fastest way to regain lost population is to set tax rate to 0%. Also, it is good to get rid of public grievance as quickly as possible to get your population growing again. You can do comfort relief to decrease public grievance and you can also use an item. This item is called Speech Text and it takes away all of your public grievance and puts your loyalty at 100. It’s quite an expensive item at 100 Evony cents, but might save a city your would otherwise have lost.
