Is it just me, or do planets' populations grow way too fast? 200 million people per week seems like an awful lot. That's a billion new people every 5 weeks per planet. It just seems strange that the planet I just colonized goes from a backwater community to having more people than present-day earth in like 30-40 weeks. Also, it seems to make the colony modules not so important. Why bother loading a lot of people on colony ships when
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Thanks for all the info! Yeah, I was hoping to get the design back in that particular game but, like I said, I was just kind of messing around. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something in the interface that would let me get the design back.
The core colony ship *looks* like it has 2 colony modules sticking out of it, but if you look at the info for one of them, it appears to have just one module. And, in fact, when you load one up from a planet, it only accepts up to 500 people. Yeah, it's picky I know, but why does the core colony ship not actually look like it should, given the modules that are actually on it?
Once a ship design is obsolete, is it possible to un-obsolete it? In my case, I was just playing around at the beginning of a game and obsoleted the core colony ship (yeah, I'm brilliant, I know ). Anyway, I couldn't for the life of me find a way to get the core design back short of starting a new game. Am I missing something, or is a design gone once you obsolete it, never to be seen again?
This is a pretty minor cosmetic issue, but - I've been playing as the Terrans and it seems like many times Saturn has no rings when I start a game. It's pretty sporadic - sometimes, it has rings and looks all cool, other times no rings at all. Anyone else notice this?
I read something in a different post about social production that implied moons give a bonus to production for the planet they orbit. Is this true? Do moons have any other effects and if so, are they listed anywhere? Same goes for planetary rings - other than looking cool, do they have any effects on the planet they are around?
I have never seen any planet lights either. For what it's worth, I'm using an ATI X800XL.