Service industries population fraction

[Gobbopathe (OP)]

Hello

I have a quick question : how is defined the % of the population dedicated to Service industries ? I know that Agriculture & Environmental is 5 + (colony cost x 5) %, but I can't find the calculation for Service industries.

Is there anything in Aurora that part of population is useful for ?

Maybe I should instead ask how is defined the % of the population dedicated to Manufacturing, but at the end we agree that both questions produce the same answers.

Thanks

[MarcAFK]

Service industries do nothing useful, except to serve to lower the amount of manufacturing industry available. I don't know the exact formula, but at about 250 million population the percentage hits 70%, under that population and theres less service percentage, making smaller colonies more efficient.

[sloanjh]

Colony cost also makes it worse, IIRC (extra workers are needed to take care of all that infrastructure).

John

[davidb86]

From the Wiki

Agriculture and Environmental (A&E). The percentage and actual amount of population working to feed the rest of the population and maintain any environmental infrastructure. The required percentage is based on the colony cost and is assigned automatically by Aurora. A colony cost zero world will only have 5% assigned to this sector.
Service Industries (SI): This is the percentage and amount of population working in service industries, which includes everything that is not related to A&E or Manufacturing. The percentage required for SI is based on the total size of the population and is assigned automatically by Aurora. As a population grows, the relative size of the SI sector increases.
Manufacturing: The available population after the size of the A&E and SI Sectors has been determined. All factories, mines, shipyards, etc must be manned by this sector of the population.

The percentage of service industry scales with population and hits 75% around 500 million.  I though I had seen an exact formula, but I cannot find it now

[Bgreman]

AgriPercent = (ColCost + 1) * 0.05
ServicePercent = Sqr(Sqr(TotalPop * 100000)) / 100 (with a max of 0.75)

TotalPop is in millions.

The available manufacturing population is the total population - (agri pop + service pop).

[TheDeadlyShoe]

it should be noted that while small colonies are manufacturing-efficient, their trade capability tends to be minimal.

[Gobbopathe (OP)]

TotalPop is in millions.

The available manufacturing population is the total population - (agri pop + service pop).

Great, thanks