Bug or...?

[dumbluck]

Well, it would definately make the Planet Conditions more important, especially in the early game (better conditions = quicker reproduction). But it would also slow down early game expansion a _LOT_! You probably couldn't afford to build anything on that first colony until it was about half full of ppl; or, you could start building on the second colony right away, but you wouldn't be able to afford the maintenance on any ships until you _stopped_ building on it!

[Cyrien]

Yah like that.

And I am a History major not a math major so I was pretty proud just do what I did.

I am sure there are better ways to do it and easy ways to diversify it but math isn't my strong point. :P

I actually like the idea of a slowed down start game... and if you thought about it you could easily transport large amounts of pop from the home planet to fill out the basic levels the first few startup colonies without breaking into the production their too much... so not so great a slow down.

Besides I never really have problems with resources in SEIV... and normally my races have 80% to 50% resource harvesting with lowered intel and maybe slightly increased research though I prefer 100% as a base rather than increasing it... otherwise it makes the game too easy.

I would actually really enjoy seeing a population modifier like this... and with the settings file you could make the amounts needed to run each variable and set it to 0 if you didn't like the option. Easy enough.

[Suicide Junkie]

Actually, my main concern is what happens when you have insufficient population to run the "essential facilities", or those which cannot run at partial efficiency.

-What does 50% eff. mean for a resupply depot?
-How do you use your 1M people when you've got 2 or more essential facilities?
Sometimes the resupply depot might be more important than the spaceport!

[Cyrien]

You could possible have it as a list of settings in the settings file as to what is more important can bet set there or within the game itself as an option to list the priority of the different essentials. Via the Empire Manager or whatever that options thingy is.

[This message has been edited by Cyrien (edited 15 September 2001).]