[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
I don't think that's possible... but that would be interesting, if Malfador would put in population requirements for facilities... also facilities that take up multiple slots so you can have big spaceyards but at a price in space!

There was an attempt to force facilities to require a certain amount of population during the early phases of development. It was unpopular with the original beta testers and was disabled. But there is still a setting in SETTINGS.TXT for it. If only MM would re-enable it and let us choose whether to use it or not...