Population maximums

Morale definitely decreases as population grows. When your morale drops below 50% your population will stop increasing. People are happier on better planets so they can keep growing longer.

Shouldnt there be a carrying capacity limit for each planet class ? I mean in my latest game Earth was a class 24 planet with 29 BILLION people ! In reality this would trigger ecological collapse. Besides, such a limit would enhance the fight to control good planets. For exemple I always have the 'rare' planet quality setting when I play (and I still find there's too many yellow stars btw).


MG

Heh, you make 29 billion people on Earth sound like a big number. I've had a game with the population of Earth hit about 65 billion with all the morale bonuses I had. And it wasn't even my most populated planet.

The limit is 100 billion people. You will only get there if your planet class is high enough... otherwise your planet will just go up and down to a certain level depending on your morale

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65 billion on planet Earth, WOW. that's quite excesive though, even for 2200AD. My vote for population maximum, there should be a cutoff. And like MGagne said, it would enhance competition for large planets.

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purefx, is 100 billion the max per planet no matter what the planet class is? I've never gotten that high before.

Something like 7 B for class 15 and up 1 B for each successive class - so a class 42 for instance (highest I've seen so far) would have a limit of 34 billion inhabitants. Of course the reverse would be true - planets with lower class could have their capacity reduced by 1 B - so a class 14 would be 5 and so on - down until class 8. Below that its rather tricky to colonize anyway.

MG

Excelent idea MGagne

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I don't know if I like that. After all, this is about 200 years in the future. I'm sure we would have figured out ways to make population density less choking than it is for us now. Not to mention ways to increase the food supply with decreasing farmable land, and etc.

Well PriestofDiscord as I mentioned earlier, any planet has a carrying capacity. To go beyond that limit means ecological collapse. Besides there are capacity modifiers already. Speaking of which - soil enrichment should increase pop growth rather than pop capacity.


MG

There is strategy involved to growing your population (more production if you can handle the economics properly) - the better strategy you have, the more you can get outta your empire.

This is a gameplay issue vs a "realism" issue. Please always keep in mind this is a strategy game vs a simulator (not SimGalaxy, hehe); for if you cap populations, you ruin some of the strategic depth in the gameplay.

Amen, Gordeleth.

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Agreed. I like it just how it is.
If anything, I would lose the population cap for extremely high level planets.

Gordeleth, what MGagne is proposing would increase strategy as the acquisition of large and productive planets would become very important.

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100 billion is the hardset limit for ANY planet as far as i can tell. I had a class 44 planet with 100 billion on it and 100 morale.

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Btw I've had lower class planets limit out at 100 billion as well. One game of mine I had 15 planets and 1.2 trillion population. That was a great game ;D

I also agree with Gordeleth. Half the fun of the game is finding ways to increase your population without morale loss. It gives you a chance to form your planets the way you want them. Your population determines the planet's quality really

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My God people, you mean to tell me that with all this super tech advances we have made and cont. to make in the game that no one has figured out birth control. This is another part of the game I feel is weak. A far more tech. advanced race with a small population, should be happier, produce more and "deplete" their world recourses a lot lessthen a low tech. over populated race. There are too many over simplified aspects in this game like the way they handle fleets, for my taste. It’s too bad because the base game is very good.

Uh we have birth control now. You're talking about mind control. Sinds like a definite EVIL EVIL EVIL tech to me... don't limit sex, free love, baby!

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Dearmad LMAO never would I advacte less sex LOL. However you do know that you can have sex without having children? Please tell me it's possible.

I do not see why it should be difficult to fit 100B people on any planet. You just need to make people smaller or open a door into fifth dimension LOL

I'm just fooling around... thought it would make a good evil tech, though. Would actually sort of fit into the humor of the game.

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