Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: Foolcow on April 08, 2011, 04:19:08 PM
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As long as lack of infrastructure is not an issue, the population growth percentage seems to be solely a function of current population. Does anybody know what it is exactly?
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It was posted in the Mechanics forum, but that was four or five years ago. It's a simple logarithmic scale from a max of 10% (under a million) down to 2% (more than ten million, or is it more than 25 million?)
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It was posted in the Mechanics forum, but that was four or five years ago. It's a simple logarithmic scale from a max of 10% (under a million) down to 2% (more than ten million, or is it more than 25 million?)
Actually, it doesn't seem to be that simple. I have a growth rate of 1.1% at 9 billion on earth, and a growth rate of 2.24% at 950 million on mercury.
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Actually, it doesn't seem to be that simple. I have a growth rate of 1.1% at 9 billion on earth, and a growth rate of 2.24% at 950 million on mercury.
Any population growth modifiers on governors?
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Ah yes, I had forgotten about them.
It's .96% at earth and 2.03% at mercury without them. Still doesn't fit the formula Tim posted.
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Seems kinda strange. Here we're at 7 billion and folks are just making tons of babies as fast as they can, at least in the developing world.
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Well, current growth rate is about 1,3%.
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It was posted in the Mechanics forum, but that was four or five years ago. It's a simple logarithmic scale from a max of 10% (under a million) down to 2% (more than ten million, or is it more than 25 million?)
Based on my 5 colonies, I'd say the 10% is less than 10 million and the 2% is at 1 billion. Two colonies at 10% are 2.13m and 7.18m, no bonuses. Earth with 1033.53m would be 1.97% without the governor bonus. No sector bonuses.
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The fastest population growth is achieved when you equalize the population over all colonies. Right?
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Well, current growth rate is about 1,3%.
Interesting! I had to look up the value, and it sure is. 1.3% is still a lot of babies
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Yup, and it is a bit higher than what you get on Aurora for a many billions world. I guess Steve is an idealist, and think that TN tech will dramatically raise people's standard of living, especially in the develloping world, meaning they make less babies.
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As long as lack of infrastructure is not an issue, the population growth percentage seems to be solely a function of current population. Does anybody know what it is exactly?
Colony Growth Rate = 20 / (CurrentPop ^ (1 / 3))
This is capped at 10% before modifications for planetary and sector governors. It is also affected by radiation.
Steve
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The growth rate of Earth's population has been declining since peaking in 1963 at 2.20% per annum. In 2009, the estimated annual growth rate was 1.1%
Steve
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Colony Growth Rate = 20 / (CurrentPop ^ (1 / 3))
This is capped at 10% before modifications for planetary and sector governors. It is also affected by radiation.
Steve
That's current pop in millions, right?
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Probably. After all, planetary population is always represented in millions.
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The fastest population growth is achieved when you equalize the population over all colonies. Right?
Correct. For example, if you have 5 billion people and seed 3 worlds with 25 million each, after 50 years you have 10% less total population than seeding each with 250 million and 22% less than when seeding each with 1250 million. Time in cold sleep not considered.
If you have 10 colonies with 500 million each the advantage is 48%.
So a constant stream of colony ships to equalize the populations nets the largest growth. And likely a more lively empire, and more work.
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One thing to think about with faster growing population is that the percentage of the population generating wealth goes up with larger populations. A small population has most of its people working in the agriculture and factories with only a small percentage working in the service sector. A large population however has about 75% working in the service sector, and that is what generates money to spend. A population of 400 million is about the cutoff for getting the 75% service sector. A 100 million population has a service sector of 56% roughly. Depending on how your population is split up this can have a big effect on your income and what you can actually spend it on
Brian
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One thing to think about with faster growing population is that the percentage of the population generating wealth goes up with larger populations. A small population has most of its people working in the agriculture and factories with only a small percentage working in the service sector. A large population however has about 75% working in the service sector, and that is what generates money to spend. A population of 400 million is about the cutoff for getting the 75% service sector. A 100 million population has a service sector of 56% roughly. Depending on how your population is split up this can have a big effect on your income and what you can actually spend it on
Brian
Wealth generation is based on the entire population. It isn't restricted to a particular sector.
Steve