Let's take Krimml city as an example. It now has 4737 inhabitants. They seem to be growing in an average pace of about 40 per day. I've seen on the wiki that the city's population once was 17900. At that pace it will be another 330 days, almost a year, before the city is back to normal.
Am I mistaken somehow? If I'm not, this is lunacy. We talk of crippeling a realm, but a realm can't be crippled for well over a year. 2 months might be reasonable or so.
In Dwilight, there are regions that have been near-continuously held by human realms for over a year that have never seen max population.
