[Trachmyr]

uhhh....

okay, let's say you've got 10M pop.,
after 1 year: 10 x 1.3 = 13 (and that's not counting the compound intrest that adds per turn)

2 years: 13 x 1.3 = 16.9
3 years: 16.9 x 1.3 = 21.97
4 years: 21.97 x 1.3 = 28.561
5 years: 37.1293
6 years: 48.26809
7 years: 62.748517
8 years: 81.573072
9 years: 106.04499
10 years: 137.85849 (almost by a factor of 14 with 30% reproduction!)

I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from (if you got 100M people increasing by 30% per year (30M), over 10 years without compound intrest, you still get 400M ((30M x 10) + 100)... but here's mine, rember that's 30% increase a year (actually 3% a "month") and intrest compounds.

AND if you count all compound intrest, then the formula is Final Population=Starting Population x 1.03^number of turns passed... for 10M pop and 100 turns (10 years) that equals 192.18632M, that an increase of over 19 fold!



[This message has been edited by Trachmyr (edited 08 May 2001).]