Ok, guys. I need comments on the population modifiers I'm doing.
See it in
Graph Form (.gif) (Note: the horizontal lines are 25%, with light blue every 100%. The vertical ones are 100M pop, with light blue every 500M pop.)
So far, I have about 1300 distinct population modifiers, one for every 5M people, up to 2 Billion people, then one every 50M, up to a filled sphereworld.
The base Construction rate is 10% of normal.
You get +1% for every 50M people.
Maxed out sphereworlds can thus produce at 12.8 times the normal spaceyard rate, and 4.5 Billion pop planets get 100%.
Resource production looks like a sine wave.
It starts at 15% normal for 1M people, rapidly increases sine-wave style to a peak of almost 200% at 450M people.
It then follows a stretched (3x) sinewave back down to the minimum 10% resource production at anything over 2 Billion people.
Comments?
[ 19 January 2002: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]