What is the effect of population size?

[Suicide Junkie]

In P&N v2.5-PBW, I have edited settings.txt to improve the population effects.

My settings.txt file is the better part of a megabyte in size, and provides three thousand pop modifiers (vs the 12 defaults).

Spaceyard rate, for example, starts at 10%.
There is a +1% increase for each 25M people you add to the planet.
2 Billion people therefore get 90% of standard Sy build rate, and a maxxed out sphereworld gets 25.7 times the normal build rate.

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Re: unmodded pop modifiers.

it goes something like:
+5% for 100M
+10% for 500M
+20% for 1B
+30% for 2B
+40% for 3B
+50% for 4B
+60% for 5B
+70% for 6B
+80% for 7B
+90% for 8B
+100% for 10B

[ 20 March 2002: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]