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Why Cram Extra Settlers Into City?

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I decided to relocate the one city-plan settlement that we are required to have in SS2. I had settled them at Coastal Cottage and they had outgrown their plan. It was a mess. I searched for a plan that would allow for 19 settlers and found one that allowed 27 - 29 at level 3 at Nordhagen Beach. I had a hand-built settlement at Nordhagen Beach with 10 settlers, so that would be ideal once level 3 was reached. I therefore went about removing the city-plan settlement from Coastal Cottage and relocating all the settlers to Nordhagen Beach. Everything went great until the moment came to activate the city plan at Nordhagen Beach. I put Stodge on the City Desk, activated the plan, watched the fly-around video, and landed. And watched in dismay as pop-pop-pop three new settlers arrived. Now there were 32 settlers. Why, WHY, WHY???

I repeated this whole escapade twice more and got the same result every time. Three settlers crammed into an already overcrowded settlement, by SS2 City plan mechanics. I eventually gave in and moved them somewhere else, but it wasted half a day of playing.
 
dont forget you can ADD to the city plan if you have the build room, and build UP not just on the ground. ive had 50 settlers in coastal cottage but i built a HUGE platform in the sky with a ton of residential and used the 3x3 plots
 
It's either workshop framework mechanics (recruitment happens immediately after placing beacon) or vanilla mechanics. If a settlement never had a beacon, they'd show up when you place one. Just turn that off or send them elsewhere, population should never go over limit after that.
 
It's either workshop framework mechanics (recruitment happens immediately after placing beacon) or vanilla mechanics. If a settlement never had a beacon, they'd show up when you place one. Just turn that off or send them elsewhere, population should never go over limit after that.
Ah, that explains it. I used to use Pra's Advanced Recruitment Beacons because I could set a limit, but I stopped using beacons at all when SS2 made it impossible to get settlers at any reasonable rate through beacons. A city plan would of course come with a vanilla beacon, and now that kinggath fixed the bug that was making recruitment so slow there would be a flood as soon as a beacon went up. Oddly, my vanilla beacon placed at Outpost Zimonja in response to Preston's request only attracted one settler before I got it removed again. But I had forgotten how vanilla beacons worked when I hadn't been using any at all. Thanks! :yes3
 
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