View Full Version : What good is population?
Gurduloo
March 12th, 2002, 05:01 PM
Is population really that important? I have colonies with really pretty low populations that seem able to build plenty of facilities and build ships just as quickly as a thickly settled world. I usually don't bother building population transports because of this. I'm a relative newbie, having played only the demo until I got SEIV Gold recently. Am I missing something important here?
Nebraskan
March 12th, 2002, 05:09 PM
In the settings.txt file is a line for amount of population to operate a facility. This used to be set at 50 in SE4 and in a mod I am using called Proportions from the Gold disk it is set to 100 to operate a facility. What it means is this, if you have 10 facilities and only 200 population the facilities do not operate at full capacity. More people more efficency.
chewy027
March 12th, 2002, 05:26 PM
and when you reach certain levels of pop you get bonuses to production that makes you build faster, produce more resources, etc.
Suicide Junkie
March 12th, 2002, 05:30 PM
In the PBW Version of P&N, spaceyard rate is directly proportional to population.
Double the pop, double the build rate.
This also means that a new colony takes 8 months to build even the cheapest facility, and full dyson spheres can build almost anything in one turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
In SE4 classic, the pop modifiers max out at a +40% to +50% range.
Gurduloo
March 12th, 2002, 06:16 PM
Thanks everybody. Sounds like I'll notice population effects more if I use some mods. So in the standard game, a full dyson sphere would only get up to 50% production bonus for population? That seems kind of weird.
capnq
March 12th, 2002, 08:36 PM
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> In the settings.txt file is a line for amount of population to operate a facility. <hr></blockquote>Has that actually been turned on in Gold? That setting never worked in 1.49.
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