Newbie quesiton about facility limits

[Claymore 2002]

Hi all,

Am playing the demo while wainting for my copy of SEIVG to arrive (hopefully on Monday).

What determines the maximum number of facilities allowed?

Does increasing the population of a colony allow more facilities to be built?

Please forgive the questions, but I am a old, hard-core Stars! player where Pop management was critical to building a fast/successful empire and I am trying to convert to SEIVG.

SMB

[Lemmy]

it depends on planet size, and the atmosphere, smallest size can have 1 facility, largest size can have 5, but if the atmosphere is the same as your race breathes, then the max number of facilities is multiplied with five, so for a tiny planet that would be 5, and for a huge planet that would be 25.
One of the racial traits also increases the max facilities...don't remember which one though...

[Phoenix-D]

Advanced Storage Techniques ups the number of facilities.

"Please forgive the questions, but I am a old, hard-core Stars! player where Pop management was critical to building a fast/successful empire and I am trying to convert to SEIVG."

Pop management is important (especially in some of the mods) but will not increase facility space.

Basiclly, more population = more efficient production. Happyness works the same way. A happy tiny world filled to the brim can often outproduce a miserable half-full Huge world.

Phoenix-D

[Taz-in-Space]

The advanced storage trait gives a 20% boost to space available. (rounded down) thus on a 'Domed' colony of huge size the normal 5 facilities would become 6. but a large size of 4 would remain 4.
The main advantage IMO is on game startup. your homeworld would have more facilities already built and 20% greater population limit. This is a
real advantage.

[Baron Munchausen]

Unfortunately, advanced storage does not increase cargo capacity of your ships! Nor the storage space of your storage facilities other than cargo, IIRC. Why not? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[oleg]

Claymore, you should try Proportions mod.
(The Last Version can be found in download forum).
There, population is the single most important asset of your empire !

[Claymore 2002]

A further question.

When you say that increased population leads to increased construction, does it also lead to increased mining, farming and refining?

Claymore2002

[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, population bonuses affect all forms of production. Look in the SETTINGS.TXT file for the levels at which the bonuses kick in and how much they are.

Number Of Population Modifiers := <number>
Pop Modifier 1 Population Amount := 99
Pop Modifier 1 Production Modifier Percent := 100
...
etc.

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Originally posted by Claymore 2002:
A further question.

When you say that increased population leads to increased construction, does it also lead to increased mining, farming and refining?

Claymore2002<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, in the same proportions in the standard games...
But in fact SEIV settings file lists all pop treshold and has 2 modifiers for each, one for construction and another for production.
This is sometimes heavily modded in some mods (Proportions is a good example..)