Immigration?

oogs · #1 January 25th, 2004, 07:36 PM

I was wondering... when a planet is full of people (i.e. my homeworld with 4B people) is there any sort of immigration to other "available" planets, or do they.. uhh... just stop reproducing? If it isn't happening, I think that would be a good idea to include eventually because it would help system growth and be more realistic (c'mon, we can't expect 4 billion people to stop having sex!).

Just some thoughts

Edit: fixed typo

[ January 25, 2004, 17:37: Message edited by: oogs ]

Slynky · #2 January 25th, 2004, 07:47 PM

Yep, after that, sex is outlawed. Can you say, "Pop Transport"?

Oh, BTW, looking at some of the species, sex may not even be an option...they might just "split" or something...

capnq · #3 January 25th, 2004, 08:36 PM

Or you could take a Malthusian view, where the death rate becomes equal to the birth rate.

oogs · #4 January 26th, 2004, 12:57 AM

lol.... there would be full blown riots if sex (or splitting for those over-weight aliens!) was outlawed.

I know it's doable with pop-transports, but that's such a pain in the ***. I guess that what I was thinking of was an automated Version of that. Maybe with a new facility or something

PvK · #5 January 26th, 2004, 01:02 AM

Depends on your species. Humans would probably keep having sex, and just kill each other to stay under the quota.

Just kidding. More accurately, humans would probably overpopulate and erode their own planet's ability to support life until it was too late.

PvK

[ January 25, 2004, 23:05: Message edited by: PvK ]

Master Belisarius · #6 January 26th, 2004, 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by oogs:
I guess that what I was thinking of was an automated Version of that. Maybe with a new facility or something

Well, the AI Minister that manage the Population, is the only that time in time I use to avoid the micromanagement.

oleg · #7 January 26th, 2004, 01:41 AM

Birth Control. Ever heard about The Pill ?

No need to outlaw sex, Europe population would be shrinking due to less than 2 births per woman if not for imigration.

gregebowman · #8 January 26th, 2004, 11:26 PM

But is there a way to automate the immigration process? I mean, it gets tedious to build a transport, ferry a cargo load of people to an almost empty planet, then go back to the full planet and start the process over again. Can't we simplify this?

JLS · #9 January 26th, 2004, 11:29 PM

The next patch may help this:

Version 1.85:
5. Fixed - Changed Population Transport minister so that it takes population
to lowest populated planet.

Then all you need is to build Transports and let the minister do the work.

[ January 26, 2004, 22:05: Message edited by: JLS ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #10 January 27th, 2004, 12:38 AM

yeah, not having to shuffle population, at least for that, is gonna cut the MM. not that MM, the other MM!

but will it recognize breather differences?