Zero Population Growth - Fact or Fiction?

[Fyron]

No, they don't. Planets with 0 pop can't do anything except exist. Same with Rioting planets.

[ August 21, 2002, 22:05: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Baron Munchausen]

And properly they should not work the same with 1 million as with 100 million population. I wish MM would restore the 'population required to operate a facility' option. If you have less than the min per facility then your facilities should operate at a fraction of their normal capaccity -- equal to the fraction of required population present, of course.

[jimbob]

I don't know, I sort of think the Proportions type mods do a pretty good job of elevating the importance of populations.

[PvK]

Ya, Proportions shows how you can have population have a major effect on production. In fact, if you don't want so slow a game, you could just lift the Proportions population curve and nothing else.

It won't effect things like a shrine, scanner, or robot factory, but then again, why should they? What facility actually would require even one million high-tech inhabitants to run it, short of a city...

As for planets doing NOTHING without population - not quite true. Resupply depots and component repair still take place with zero population, and I imagine everything besides construction and production do, as well.

PvK

[Fyron]

PvK, that falls under the "existing" Category. I probably should have worded that better.