A newbie writes:

[Drake]

I've never been on a planet that was less than unpleasant. How do they get to deadly? Anyway, you lose 3% growth from optimal to good, and 2% for each level below that, from what I've seen.

I wouldn't be surprised if planets only show unpleasant while having some lower value. If they were capped at unpleasant, you wouldn't see a change in the conditions until they actually made their way internally up to unpleasant, and then to mild. I don't know if this is the case, but it seems possible.

If you want to know the guts of what things do, look in the data directory at the settings. Most of the info is somewhere in there.

The bonus to construction and production is 5% at 100M, 10% at 500M, 20% at 1000M, and an additional 10% for each 1000M beyond that, up to 90% for 8000M. You'll also get +100% for 10B if you stick that many ppl on a ringworld or sphereworld.

-Drake

[This message has been edited by Drake (edited 30 January 2001).]