quick Q on population growth

jlaughman22 · #1 April 19th, 2002, 09:47 AM

hey everybody i just got SEIV gold and am loving except for one annoying problem. When i colonize a planet with is suitable for my people i get absolutely no growth. i cant build anything and is getting rather frustrating. i tried doing a search but couldnt find anything reasonable and read the manual. im sure its something stupid but anybody can point me in the right direction it'd sure help alot
thanks j

Askan Nightbringer · #2 April 19th, 2002, 09:52 AM

Make sure you have population on the colony ship before you send it out.
Do this by selecting your colony ship and pressing "T".

Askan

jlaughman22 · #3 April 19th, 2002, 09:57 AM

go figure i figure it out as soon as i post thank you very much askan

Askan Nightbringer · #4 April 19th, 2002, 09:58 AM

Your welcome.

Growltigga · #5 April 19th, 2002, 10:03 AM

Q related to both population AND proportions

I want to change the 'weight' settings for population so that a cargo hold I can only carry 3 million colonists, not 30 million (I realise that this will screw up the cargo hold ability of the rock colony module)

anyone know how I do that?

Vulture-B · #6 April 19th, 2002, 11:47 AM

Hello Growltigga,

line 280 in the settings.txt states Population Mass := 5, looks to me that this says 1M people take up 5 ktons of Cargo (the colony-module has 20ktons of cargo and can hold 4M people).

So try to set the value to 50 and you should be fine. As far as I can tell the change should not affect anything else.

hope this helps

Vulture-B