When is the next episode due
and....
How come there's no column for highest population on the leader-board???

Who know's? I've seen a pic of part 3 on Virtual villagers.com.

Probably because the population can go over 114!!!

Where Charley? Where where??? I didn't see it there.

ACC

Check this link out. It allows you to be notified.

http://www.virtualvillagers.com/previews/index.html

My population is 115 and did go up to 117 at one point when someone had triplets.

Once my over 90 population (I'm missing some collectibles) started dying off, my villagers were not able to breed back up to the 110 limit that I had. Is this normal?

You only get the population increase once in the game then you go back to the 90 limit for the rest of the game?

Make sure you've got a couple of females under 50 set as parents, or perhaps one male parent.

Done and done, still stuck back at the 90 limit now that my initial population has died off.

I never close either game (VV1 & VV2) without making sure I have a male breeder set up.

If you try dropping one villager on another of the opposite sex, do you get a message that you're at the limit? If so, that sounds like a possible _bug_, provided you're entitled to a higher population through getting full sets of collectibles.

Doesn't the male breeder (which I don't use) always go to the eldest female first and then work his way down the age scale as he impregnants (like in VV1)?

If that is true, then your male will always be going to the oldest female who after 50 cannot reproduce. Thus, your village will not climb in population.

Unlike most players, I choose the females for parenting skills. They can always find a willing man.

My population is at 90 right now. I have two collections complete (still missing 2 beetles and three pebbles to complete the others) and all puzzles complete, which means I should have a limit of at least 100, if not a bit more. When I drop a male on a female, or vise-versa, I get the pop up saying that I've reached my population limit.

It must have been a glitch. I went back on the game to check and I'd lost 3 more villagers (from old age). It's now letting me breed them back up to my limit, currently at 97 and he was still going when I last checked.