Changing starting population, population growth
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:25 pm
Alright, if I colonize a system, I'm given 20 population,
and then the turn runs the population growth function through all the populated systems.
I have this one system with 1% pop.growth, with 130 max pop.
Even at 300 food production, max growth has been 1 for the past 20 turns since it was colonized.
Why increase starting growth?
- In a game sense, it takes an interminably long time for useful growth to happen, and I'm attempting to mod for a faster paced game.
- In a more realistic sense, the population growth does not take into account immigration from "full" planets.
So,
- Is it possible to increase the starting population of 20?
- Is it possible to mod the existing growth formula to have a greater increase at the sub-100 population levels? (preferred)
Could one take the final calculated population increase and simply add 4 to it?
A minimum of 1 population growth becomes a minimum of 5?
Would you need to simplify the existing calculation to do this, like ignoring the system's growth rate altogether?
and then the turn runs the population growth function through all the populated systems.
I have this one system with 1% pop.growth, with 130 max pop.
Even at 300 food production, max growth has been 1 for the past 20 turns since it was colonized.
Why increase starting growth?
- In a game sense, it takes an interminably long time for useful growth to happen, and I'm attempting to mod for a faster paced game.
- In a more realistic sense, the population growth does not take into account immigration from "full" planets.
So,
- Is it possible to increase the starting population of 20?
- Is it possible to mod the existing growth formula to have a greater increase at the sub-100 population levels? (preferred)
Could one take the final calculated population increase and simply add 4 to it?
A minimum of 1 population growth becomes a minimum of 5?
Would you need to simplify the existing calculation to do this, like ignoring the system's growth rate altogether?