Construction speed and population size

[derb]

It appears that I can build at the same speed on a planet with 4m people as I can on a planet with 1000m ! Is this a bug or a feature?!

[Suicide Junkie]

You get a bonus for constructio & production at levels of 100M, 500M etc.

Perhaps your large planet is less happy, and that is cancelling the effect of the larger population.

[Nitram Draw]

What is the cost of the item? If a lot of one resource is needed you may not get any reduction on that item. I see that a lot when using emergency build, you build with 50% more resources but the time is not cut in half due to the high quantity of a single resource needed.

[PsychoTechFreak]

And IIRC there is a rate display or rate button in the queue window which shows the actual amount of minerals/bio/radiants used for building in one turn, the rate depends on happiness/amount of population and spaceyard rate (if you build a ship). If you divide the costs by the rates you should get the time needed to complete the build.

Edited: If you divide the most expensive of the three materials by the rate... (seems to be more accurat)



[This message has been edited by PsychoTechFreak (edited 24 April 2001).]

[derb]

True that pop of 2000M gives a 30% bonus but surely production on a world with 14m people should not be 70% of one with 2000M, whatever the other circumstances are!

[Nitram Draw]

I don't see why population even affects production, it is still the same size facility. Maybe they just needed to give you a reason to grow your population.