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Originally posted by 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?
You can change this in two ways. First, there are facilities in the game that will increase production. This is just like MOO where you could build factories and what not. So, the "development level" of a colony does affect production. Second, you can alter the production increase caused by larger population in the SETTINGS.TXT file. There were some problems in earlier Versions with limits on the number of steps you could have. It's been fixed now and the limit is something like 255 if I recall rightly. So, you could install a very large and elaborate scale of increasing productivity with whatever top level you want.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 25 May 2001).]