Chill out everyone....

take it how you want, it's just a game.

Why would you want to kill a villager? If you need more children, try speeding up the game so that your villagers age more quickly and die 'naturally.'

it only has to be done if you didn't realize in the beginning that females can only breed up to 50 years old and you breed in bulk in the beginning and didn't pay so much attention with age intervals. because at your estimate, by the time the oldest villager dies by old age, your female villagers (even the youngest one) may be too old to make babies by then. no children, no next generation, the tribe get wiped out eventually. i'm glad i didn't have to do that with mine because i found out early in the game, before i maximize my population, that female villagers have that 50-year-old limitation. so i am able to plan out my villagers age intervals very carefully. it just feels good that the game provides an option, a way to save the tribe when circumstances like the one i mentioned above happens. it may rarely happen though.

i don't think tbug53 has a lot to worry right now. maybe his oldest villager will die in his 70's by old age (mine does). so there's still gonna be plenty of time to make babies with his 14-year-old females, who's going to be in their 20's by then.

"Holy Kaurumba" Batman, I didn't mean to get a "holy war" started.
No, I could never kill no matter what the reason..still one of those who believes things happen for a reason even if it is a game.
I was just wondering if there was a loophole somewhere that had not been addressed..
As my youngest sister always say's when the chips are down"it will all come out in the wash"

Part of the problem is that when the game has been off and the game catches up it decides that a certain number of babies have been born. Often these are all given the arbitrary age of six (and often all have the same mother!). That means that there are certain periods when a good proportion of the villagers are all the same age. I've seen this happen with a couple of my longer-lasting villages.

The answer, as so often in this game, is patience. Eventually the older villagers will start to die of old age and the younger villagers will be able to start having babies again. The only problem would be if your villagers were all aged in a narrow band that meant the youngest was aged over 50 by the time they started to die.

you are right, sometimes it can be very frustrating what they're doing behind your back.

I might just be stating the obvious here... but, why don't you just not get in a situation where you have to kill a villager in the first place? It's stinkin' easy to monitor your villages population and generation gaps. Just pop in a couple times a day and make babies, but only do it at that time.

Sheesh, I'd never think of killing a villager.

That is what I do. I keep the population to about 50-60 and control who has babies and how many.

That way if I am away for a long stretch and there are no children to search for collectables, then I have the option of breeding a few, since I haven't maxed out the population.

I have never intentionally killed a villager either - there is one island event that killed one but now that I know the outcome of that decision box, I know not to click that when it comes up again.

Sharon

UPDATE:

Well this is let you all know that nature took it's course by way of Elders passing(age 81) and I started trying to play the game for at least a few mins during the day which lad to an event where several villagers left the island.
Now my age span is workable again..I have 5 babies(age 2-5) 4 children(age 8-11) 3 teens(14, & 2-17 yr olds) then going to age 45 and up...game is running very smooth now