First off, I LOVE THIS GAME! and i have found almost no bugs, everything works great. Until....

As soon as i reach 200+ (one play was 350). The game gets a HORRIBLE lag. I have tried playing with settings, eventho my pc is still /care
It will lag for a period, then be better. Mostly when selecting area's for like cutting tree's.

W10
Ryzen 9 3950X
GTX 2080ti
Corsair MP600 pro (game drive)

When lag is happoning, pc is bearly breaking a sweat.
I get a game would get slower, but this is unplayable. And i want to make BIG towns.

Yes, the same here. My system is a 8-core Ryzen 7 with 3,9 GHz and a rtx 3060 3x OC Ventus with 12Gb. SD is a super fast M.2 with up to 3500/s.
So i am below Dronkos specs.
But both, CPU and GPU, bob up and down on 20-30%. Also the memory is used by only 5GB ca.
And still sometimes it is unplayable on single speed. (I understand that it can not work smooth on 3x speed with so many units)

I tried some recommendet settings like switching off vsync and switch between windowed and fullscreen mode. But nothing changed.

OK, i have many beavers(over 1000), but if this is the problem, why the system is simultaneously at below 40%?
On other performance hungry games i can hear my coolers speeding up. But here the sys seems not in need.

Alongside: I love the game, and also the very cool soundtrack.

Same I reach usually 700 people before i move to a new map

About same here
W11
Ryzen 5 5600 H
RTX 3060 6GB
RAM 16 GB
Samsung SSD

350 pop, 3x speed unusable
550 pop 2x speed unusable
800 pop not really playing, more of a slideshow.

CPU & GPU 25 - 38%
RAM 4 GB used by game.