Question about reproduction in SEV

[Lord_Shleepy]

douglas said:
Compounding doesn't work that way. 10% interest compounded 10 times does not mean add 10% 10 times. It means add 10/10 = 1% 10 times, and this is how SEIV and (presumably) SEV calculate population growth.

Sorry, but I'll have to let someone else answer your questions.

:-) Yes, I know that's the way it is supposed to work. It seemed like SEIV was using the whole 10% each turn tho...or something close to it. Either way, it still makes waaay too many babies!

Thanks for the correction
(Thank you sir! May i have another?)

[Will]

Lord_Shleepy said:
It seemed like SEIV was using the whole 10% each turn tho...or something close to it.

SEIV by default checked for population growth every turn, using (Reproduction_Rate / 10)% each turn, rounded up. So, if you had a colony of 20M, and reproduction of 10%, on the next turn the population would grow by 20M * 1% = 0.2M, rounded up is 1M. So, with low populations, growth always happens at 1M per turn, unless the reproduction rate is 0%. That would skew reproduction rates really high for those colonies.