Agreed and I posted that in the capri forum. I think a faster natural pop growth+ this shorter build time might be a solution. I know if the pop growth was increased with the shorter build times I would ask someone in my fam to go pop banker, but as it is now its not worth the risk.

On top of what we said. 1 thing that really kills a pop banker is how much a popper can bring u down. Atm they can bring u down to 50 pop per p and trust me that destroys u and takes income from u and your fam for a long long time.

Possible to make the lowest pop they bring u to at the size of the planet? or better yet just make every planet pop at 500-1k and make that the lowest. u can still be devestated, but it will save u alot of time by not being opped down to 50 pop

you could pretty much keep your pop growing constantly before as long as you had enough resources coming in so the build time wasn't the issue. pp and noir have got it right, if you get your pop killed halfway through the round you'd be pretty much useless all round, and since a pop banker always had a huge income compared to cf mostly in the last month of the round cf banking just makes more sense. you get a high income faster, you're less susceptible to having things killed as there's a relatively small chance of cf's being hit by nukes and the income gap between cf and pop is nowhere near what it would be when we had longer rounds.

it's certainly a step in the right direction but if a pop banker can't get their income up faster, or at least get back from having it killed faster then they just aren't worth it

4) could actually have already been implemented. the resource research should mean resources are cheaper, particularly food which would mean your attackers don't need to produce it.

the changes you suggested would certainly make me pop bank again

infaltion ftw

There are some good ideas here...pitty really.

make them cheaper, now theres a good idea

how about just a neg. to their bureaucracy, that will fix it quick LOL.

Lets not over power pop banking here:P

lowering lq/to time by 2 ticks is a good start, I think possibly increasing the natural pop growth is also a good idea. 2 of those 3 also helps cf bankers lets not forget.

I think its already hard as it is to opp a pop banker, the ones that get opped easly are the ones not having suffeciant defense. The ones with suffeciant defense should only be passed by a big jumped wizzard and thats part of the game. What im upset about is the ignorance people have in the game in opping u till u got no pop left and it takes u a week to recover and thats too long.

10k pop is too much, thats still overpowering pop banking.

Speedyjerry mentioned 1k pop on every new planet in ideas thread. I think this would be a good start to look at.

So what IF pop banking had lq's taken 8 ticks, to's taken 16 ticks, pop growth was increased by 25%? and every new planet u explored had a natural population of 1k pop + if ever opped your pop could never go below 1k.

Another thing is have u ever thought about an opp p mode? We got p mode for someone losing 50% of their planets, but not someone losing their pop or getting their buildings nuked or getting their gc/resources opped?. 50% wouldent be enough, so any kind of opp p mode would have to be lower. Maybe someone could only be opped 75% of their pop?

Pop banking needs to be brought back with some help, but not over powered and not made so easy, still has to be risk for reward.

But of course lets not forget, pop growth increase will help any pop banker opped anyways. Im just not in agreement with someone getting fam to jump him in wizzards then opping some pop banker from 50m to 40k pop and basically ruining his round

pop banking sucks, no more improvements, just let it slowly dissappear X(