usually i dont take the person said so argument
but PP said so...so usually it's true lol

lols stop thking and play ...:)

Zidi I have yet to see a thread that explains how to do population banking from the start but I look forward to seeing it if it ever does show up.

I want to compare population banking and cash factory banking from a different perspective.

A cash factory banker logs in, checks the forums and messages and whatnot, clicks the planets page, builds tax offices and cash factories, and then logs out (research funding not included). This process is repeated for every login time. 

A population banker logs in, checks messages/forum, calculates which planets need more living quarters, builds living quarters on the planets that need them the most, overbuilds a few planets with tax offices, funds some research, and waits for the next tick to see what income increase there is. Each tick brings a brand new income with a largely varying rate of increase (or decrease if there are electric storms or hypnosis)

pyf proved that last round....he was by far biggest banker in capri and he had 200 odd planets (trust me he found it easy and did very little lol)

edit...nowadays tho ofcoure u shud only have 1, possibly 2 pop bankers per top fam for it to work well

With all this debate between pop banking and cf banking, I think all of you are failing to consider one thing:  What about all of those millions of poor citizens that are taxed into oblivion while the empire rakes in the cash!  I mean these poor people are having to deal with constant wars.  Sometimes having to change citizenship from empire to empire, and all you pop bankers want to do is tax them as much as you can untill the day they die!  Who will stand up for these poor defenseless pesants?  I will!  SAY NO TO POP BANKING!!!!

I would have to say at this stage of the game CF banking is the better option...

yeah... bad street rep because only noobs do it

u should count in how much gc one infra would add to your income, everything else is nolified when playin in a fam. u work together to make efficient jumps so costs of the infra u can ignore in the end income per infrastructure is whot counts, even with food cost on avarage market price deducted lq's make more. and popper normally goes for a 60/40 to ratio not 3:1 thats for cf bankers.

anny proper fam has to mix it up lq for massive income and cf's for in wartime cuz the popper allmost always get killed off. pax with 40 ps easely can pawn a popper with 300ps even if the popper has 4/5 times the wizzys then the paxs besides why calc to 3100 ob... ul never get ther as popper a cf bankermight hit 700-1000ob popper when done properly stays arround 500max.
just feed ur attacker for new planets much efficienter. cf bankers hav the rc advantidge. all their own roles. but in the end the best team survives

pop banking is gay