[PvK]

It slows population down by a factor of ten, in Proportions.

The way it works is, the game increases population the same way it used to, but it only does it every tenth turn (once per year). The number can be set to whatever you like, but setting it to ten seems to put the average more or less on par with industrialized humans, it seemed to me.

However, this makes a massive difference in the population growth of low-population planets! This is because SE4 rounds UP any population growth to a minimum of one million people. With the pop growth check set to 1, that means you get AT LEAST one million people per planet per turn, even if you only had one million there to begin with - that is, for a planet with one million colonists, a reproduction rate of 1000% per year (or more, considering there is no mortality rate)! In Proportions, this is still a fairly obscene 100% per year for the first year, but then it quickly tapers down in later years to 50%, 30%, 25%, 20%, 17%, etc. until it reaches the actual reproduction rate, which by the way is only 1/10th of what the game shows it as, because the display does not factor in the growth check rate from settings.txt. That is, in Proportions, if it says 10% growth per year, it's actually 1% growth per year (minimum 1 million per year).

I figure that the minimum 1 million per year is ok, and abstractly represents either civillians arriving by their own transport, or simply the initial development of a new world and infrastructure, and not necessarily actual reproduction.

PvK

Edit: corrected verb form, and removed mathematically dubious parenthetical comment about rate.

[ 02 April 2002: Message edited by: PvK ]