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What are your methods for populating maps with buildings?

Is auto-pop a good and easy program to use?

What about copy/paste?

I'm looking for an easy way to do this that is not too difficult to understand.

I use copy/paste. But my maps are always so small. I have made 2 or 3 different templates for factories, villages and cityblocks. And with small editing they looks individual.
What amazes me is the Canonuk Channel cities. They are big but no major FPS losses. I would like to know if he uses Autopop...
You can also "steel" from other maps yoo with copy/ paste if acrors.static is smaller than 650kb. If i see, say nice harbour, i just copy that and paste it to my map. Like this:
In Unlocked FMB open the source map. Find the buildings that you want to copy, just copy and then open your own map and paste. Helps a lot and saves time too!
Hope that this helps!
Juha