DirectorTsaarx,
Uh, you missed the Moo2 part.
A brand new colony with 1 M people produces at exactly the same rate as a sphereworld with a SY III and 32 B people....
My comments and the one above were in the context of a comparison to MOO2 in which a colony maxed out with factories outproduces a brand new colony by a factor of at least twenty to one.
But MOO2 and SEIV are two very different games. Check out the other topic I started titled: Production Based vs. Resource Based games.