[raynor]

I think production penalties are a GREAT idea. It has always bothered me that you can send over just ONE million colonists and get the same production from a planet as 99 M. Even the 5% production bonus at 100 million seems out-of-whack.

I'm still hoping that they enable the 'Minimum Population to Operate One Facility' setting so we can say that each facility requires at least 10, 20 or even 50 M colonists (as the setting currently appears in Settings.Txt)

One of the things I most dislike about this game is the lack of factories ala Moo2. If I play a heavily fighter based game, I can build a colony ship in the blink of an eye, colonize a planet and start cranking out more fighters on this brand-new practically empty planet than I can on space yard ship or on a space yard base ship--OR even on an established colony that has a HUGE population in comparision. To me, this is majorly out of whack.