Posted by: Theodidactus
« on: July 05, 2014, 05:57:13 PM »
Help!
About 15 years ago, the colony of Euphrates began to experience a worker shortage crisis. It's a critical colony that is responsible for guarding a critical space lane, and for producing almost all the sorium in my space empire.
Assuming that it was simply the case that there weren't enough people on Euphrates, I redirected a ton of infrastructure to the planet...however, as the colony grows, the crisis seems to get WORSE.
Euphrates is an unterraformed rock with 150 maintanence facilities, 150 construction factories, 180 mines, 4 labs, and 50 fuel refineries. It has a population of 624 million, living in underground cities: a full 27% of its population is tasked to agriculture, and another 72% to service industries. 0% of its population is performing manufacturing.
How can I fix this? It's clearly not by importing still more people. Do I simply have to relocate the industries? Should I terraform to the best of my ability? Can I threaten to nuke them from orbit if the sorium doesn't flow?