[gamefan3001]

I used to play Master of Orion series and
I remember that the population of a planet
is crucial to your productivity (which is
quite reasonable). But in SE4, it seems
the population is only a minor
modifier to your productivity, even a newly
colonized planet can roughly match the
productivity of my homeworld (my homeworld
has 20% bonus due to the high population,
but compare with the huge difference on
their populations, this is really negligible)
Did I miss anything in the game? Is the
population in SE4 really of little
importance?