Populations

[Krictic (OP)]

Alternatively in my game china seems to be the strongest power, their greater pop seems to have allowed them to avoid a cash crunch like I have experienced and I'm sure the other powers are affected by, they seem to have the greatest tonnage in shipping too.
Actually, china may cause the death of everyone, they're upto their third gate building ship, I don't actually see them working anymore though, after gating sol I've lost track of them.

Population sure have quite the huge impact, indeed.

[alex_brunius]

I wish population had a bit less impact though.

You should be able to run a competitive nation that's much smaller but more advanced tech to compensate ( hard in aurora due to science being limited by tax = population and millions of workers = population again ).

It would be really cool if each field also had a tech for AI/automation efforts which reduce the amount of workers needed for factories/science labs/and so on.

Then advanced small pop societies could be more long term competitive to large pop less advanced ones.