Population needed to operate Facility

Weson102 · #1 June 17th, 2001, 07:19 AM

It seems to me that population is not needed to receive production. If I have little population, I can still receive production from all 15 or 20 facilities.

Is there no correlation between population and production?

Lisif Deoral · #2 June 17th, 2001, 11:04 AM

Currently, you can operate any number of facilities with minimum population. The only restriction enforced is on atmosphere breathed and domed colonies.

Weson102 · #3 June 17th, 2001, 11:27 AM

According to the setting txt. file 50,000 people are needed to run a facility. Isn't this being used in the hard code of the game?

Marty Ward · #4 June 17th, 2001, 03:45 PM

If 50,000 are needed for one facility then 1,000,000 can operate 20 facilities. Since a colony module carries 4 mil the number seem very low.

Weson102 · #5 June 17th, 2001, 03:54 PM

I'm sorry the correct figure is 50 million to operate one facility, but the population can be under that amount and you can still have several facilities built and productive.

capnq · #6 June 17th, 2001, 05:28 PM

That setting has been known not to be working for a long time. When it does get fixed, I wonder how it will determine which facilities are working? The change is likely to be hard on the AI.

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