Keep tell yourself home are no good. I reather you not use them. However, if you want to have an edge use my strategy. As for the question about when does a Artisan have better population than a shepherd, the answers is a Artisan always has a better population per acre as long as the artisan uses 10% more homes. For example, say a shepherd province is 400 acres with 10k population and using 10% homes that spepherd gets an extra 420 population. Now say there is a Artisan province with the same land, same population, and 10% homes that Artisan gets an extra 448 population. I got this number by doing the fallowing: 40(ten% of 400) * 11.2(the # of people one home add for an Artisan) = 448 As you can see the artisan has the edge in population per acre.
This forum is the best place to get your info if you want to learn how to play the way the best play. You will come across a lot from people trying to disprove the Vines Strategy, however, these people are less player or they have no clue what the rules of the game are. If you want good advice, know that, my posts are the first place you should at after you have looked at the game guild.
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