Proportions mod: So confusing!

[Mylon]

Originally posted by PvK:
500 turns or 500 years? I have an H.I. race in a current game, and on a planet with 7 million colonists and NO space yard, it will build a CC in 400 years. On one with 60 million people and NO space yard, 260 years. On one with 30 million and a level I space yard, 184.7 years. If you've got a colony that can build a cultural center in only 500 turns (50 years), then maybe I should increase the time required.

Because, as I've said recently on this thread before, a cultural center represents a whole civilization, and mass-producing McDonalds and Wall Mart (and strip mines and industry) doesn't count. All that does is add industry (and blandness) to an existing civilization.

No civilization can be created in 50 years. Cities and industry, maybe. Civilizations, no.

50 years or 500 turns. Guess what? That was my homeworld that was telling me this. Personally, I think you may be focusing a little too much on making it realistic. A ringworld can be constructed in about 25 turns in vanilla SEIV and can easily take about 200 turns or to fill with just facilities, not including cargo or whatnot. 50 turns seems reasonable for a well developed alien world to build something on the order of a cultural center, while 500 turns seems awfully long for even a homeworld.