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Topic: Population growth model is wrong...

I have a 10% pop boost:

That means at 4.4% growth per week, I should be doubling in population every 16 weeks or ticks. (1.044)^16=2

Well, It's been a day and my population has NOT doubled. Either I got hypnoed, or population growth model is wrong. Since I have no such news, either the perpetrators are THAT sneaky, or pop growth is wrong.

I think it's wrong.

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Re: Population growth model is wrong...

Allow me to help wink

Yes with 4.4% you will nearly double after 16 ticks. The catch is that the population is calculated on a per planet basis.

Here's what I think Is going on:

Lets say right now you have a pop of 100k.

Population on any given planet will double every 16 ticks provided that planet has enough room for population to grow. Assuming no planets have reached max pop your overall pop will double. So in 16 ticks you have about 200k (199,162 to be exact).

When one or two planets reach max pop the population on that planet no longer grows. So that pop won't double. So starting with a current pop of 100k. If two planets with 10k pop each are maxed, then that means that only 80k pop are elegible for doubleing. This means that after 16 ticks your pop will go from 100k to 159,330.

I hope I explained that clearly.

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Re: Population growth model is wrong...

Aha! Thanks...I was quite confused indeed-I thought it was total population and not per planet.

This helps immensely smile

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Re: Population growth model is wrong...

I also think that the pop growth tool on silenz.org is a bit messed up wink

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Re: Population growth model is wrong...

actually ive encountered this this round in capri.  i checked my pop on a per planet basis and it still was much more than how much my pop actually increased.  the real growth seems to be at 0.4% instead of the 4%

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Re: Population growth model is wrong...

you might have confused % with calculations

0,04 is 4% btw tongue. Or what seems is not true

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