Re: A newbie writes:
OK, again everybody has been very helpful.
To summarise:
* more population => more production
* better conditions => more population growth
* happiness => more production
Seems to me then that if a planet has reached max. pop. there's no longer any point in improving conditions as this only leads to more growth, not more production? (Unless of course you're intending to ship people off in future).
I have built climate improvers but not noticed any difference in conditions report. People point out this takes years, and I keep forgetting a year is 10 turns, not one. And you can't see the percentage it's reached. So I guess they're probably working, but slowly.
First part of Planet Util. delivers climate improvers (more growth), next part delivers atmosphere changers (more max. pop.) and Last part delivers resource value increments (more extraction) --- right?
Why should I bother with biological weapons or climate harmers? By the time I've managed to get my bombers close enough to a planet without getting shredded, I just bomb (napalm?) them out of existence. Am I missing a useful feature here?
It has been said that happiness depends on your initial race's "orientation". My colonies seem to vary from Indifferent to Jubiliant [sic]. I haven't done any conquering (just originally empty planets); no special events. So why the difference? And is there anything I can build that would improve this? For example, is an Urban Pac. Centre only for really miserable planets or planets you have conquered or have mixed pops? If I want all my plebs to be really happy with me what do I have to do?
My earlier question about lack of "+" symbols on Rock + Oxygen worlds (I'm a Rock + Oxygen) *appears* to be that I can't see the system at present, and since I Last saw it someone else has colonized it. My confusion came from the fact that the list of habitable/breathable/empty planets still shows these; presumably it's only updated at the time you see the world properly. That's fine, I just didn't understand it.
If I get helpful answers to these there's always more to come --- you guys are great!
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