I have been pondering the question of the ruling up populations in ridiciously
short time frames. As best I can remember it there was a consensus among
those on this who responded that ruling a province from low to much higher
levels
should take much more time than the rules actually require.

It seemed to me that a somewhat smaller number felt that many of us can, thru
sheer superhuman efforts hold our noses and let such pass once in a while but
that no more than that. When the 2nd or 3rd domain tries to do this credulity
is strained past all reason.

My idea is to look at an area like Anuire as a whole. Depending on certain
factors * the number of new adults in the region will increase by a certain
amount each year. All other things being equal when those new "recruits"
are distributed all further rule actions should fail. This would stop the
ad naseaum ruling of provinces.

*war,disease,pestilence,famine,weather.

Now the order that the rule actions fall in could be determined by inititive
or the best target rolls or the best actual rolls vs target. Resolving such a
situation is IMO not that difficult. But this scenario requires that we deal
with a population addition that is Kingdom wide.

Most campaigns except the largest PBeM ones do not use an entire Kingdom. Anuire
for example has; 22 Human, 2 Elven, 2 Dwarven, 2 Goblin, and 4 mixed race
Awnsheghlien landed, regented, domains. What happens when many of those domains
are not being played ? I can see two ways of dealing with this.

You could say that the unplayed domains are neutral and neither provide
population
for domains in play nor take any away (through ruling themselves). In that case
all of your new "citizens" will be recruited from either other players or the
critical NPC's that the DM is running.

Or you can play all of the domains on a partial basis insofar as ruling and
population growth is concerned.

That's how I see it. Any ideas or comments ?