Posted by: sloanjh
« on: November 22, 2015, 09:06:02 AM »Warning Will Robinson:
For high colony-cost planets, you also need to pay attention to the percentage of workers who will actually do something useful - it goes down as the colony cost goes up. Did your 50 million pop number take this into account? If not, you might want to check on this....
I remember the first time I put a colony on Venus. Had big labor shortages and didn't understand why until I realized everyone was working on the environmental support systems.
John
For high colony-cost planets, you also need to pay attention to the percentage of workers who will actually do something useful - it goes down as the colony cost goes up. Did your 50 million pop number take this into account? If not, you might want to check on this....
I remember the first time I put a colony on Venus. Had big labor shortages and didn't understand why until I realized everyone was working on the environmental support systems.
John