Planet Pop Status Bar Meaning?
 

Does anyone know what levels of population each "notch" on the population status bar represent? From casual observation I have noticed that all 3 boxes are displayed for a population of 1000M or greater, and of course zero boxes for zero population. What about for 1 or 2 boxes? And are these fixed numbers that trigger the pop status bar or are there different levels based upon planet size, game settings, or whatever?

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Nethog

Re: Planet Pop Status Bar Meaning?
 

I think they're orders of magnitude:

0 box = 0-9M population
1 box = 10-99M
2 box = 100-999M
3 box = 1000M+

Re: Planet Pop Status Bar Meaning?
 

I think you're right.

The problem with this is that on huge worlds, the pop bar fills when the planet is only 1/8 the max pop. I think they should just make it a percentage of the possible max pop of the planet instead. That would be a much more meaningful graphic, IMO.

Re: Planet Pop Status Bar Meaning?
 

It's even worse for sphereworlds, which can hold trillions of people

Re: Planet Pop Status Bar Meaning?
 

Actually testing is always better than just trusting your memory of what you've seen. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Planet Pop Status Bar Meaning?
 

Capnq, I did some testing and my results are as follows:

# boxes Population
0 0
1 1 through 199
2 200 through 999
3 1000+

I agree that the bars should represent a percentage and perhaps there should be 4 boxes to indicate 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, or full. Perhaps there could be even be an option to display the actual population above the bar.