How big is Earth?

[Possum]

By which I mean, in SE4 terms, would you consider Terra to be a Large or Huge planet?

According to the CIA World Factbook, the population of Terra was 6 billion in the year 2000.

A large planet in SE4 has a base max pop of 4 billion (4000 units of one million each), and a Huge planet is 8 billion.

So, are we an over-populated Large planet, or a Huge one that isn't full yet?

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're counting gas giants on the same scale, we should be small or perhaps the low end of medium.

In terms of just rock worlds, low end of Large or high end of medium.

This one would be the high end of huge for rock:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/26/new.planet/index.html

Population scales are completely out of proportion; on a gas giant like Jupiter, you could have two trillion people at Earth's population density. Also presuming that you don't take advantage of living at different altitudes for gobs more available space.

[Fyron]

The sizes and spaces are arbitrary and not meant to reflect reality in any way. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[geoschmo]

I always figured Earth as a Medium rock oxygen world because one of the medium Rock oxygen pics looks very much like a small picture of earth. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Black_Knyght]

I always assume Earth as a baseline - Rock, Oxygen, Medium

This simplifies references to me for other types of planets

[PvK]

Generally I think of Terra as a medium planet. In the real universe, when you exceed your planetary capacity to support native life, it doesn't help and the natural consequences tend to wipe your species out until something wiser evolves.

[Fyron]

Luckily we've never seen anything close to an exceeded planetary capacity in the real universe.

In Adamant mod, at least, your homeworld(s) start out filled to the brim and seething with unhappiness, providing a great impetus to move out to the stars for a better life. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[capnq]

Perhaps that's why homeworlds never have Optimal conditions: they were optimal back when your species evolved, but now population pressure has degraded the environment.