Hi!

I had a testbed planet, where I grew over 0.5B pop per turn, and the race was not Super Breeder. However those 0.5B was from unreasonably large amount of Fertility Clinics (IIRC 13), and the race had almost all possible boosts to its growth (but starting 40%).

If I'd crunch the numbers, a maximum growth ability would be composed of:
- 40% from design,
- 10% from Universalists,
- 20% from tech,
- 50% from Aphrodisiacs,
- 100% bonus from 100% approval on a planet,
- 19M (38M pop with 100% approval) from each Fertility Clinic (25% of base growth).

There are also bonuses for Torians:
- 10% built-in growth and
- unknown percentage and effect (+ or *) from Super Breeder (I suspect it's about 100%, but I'm just not in mood to run another 1-hour testbed to determine the numbers).

The last one source would be luck with either
- surveyed anomalies giving 1% boost or
- random colonization events.

However all bonuses apply to 3% base growth or 75M pop, whichever is smaller. Each FC only adds fixed amout of pop after the actual growth is calcualted.

Leaving out luck bonuses the max growth with Torians on a class 26 planet with 25 FCs would be 75M + 260% abilities +(*?) (supposed) 100% Super Breeder + 25 * 38M FCs = 1187M.

BR, Iztok

Thanks for all the information Iztok. I appreciated it.

Err... never mind.



If I recall correctly, I saw something saying that they would get 4x population growth. I never saw anything saying a +400% bonus.


Anyhow, the more that I think about the 2 bil population growth per turn, the more I realize just how scary that is. I tend to play as the Yor with maxed out soldiering. Because of my high soldiering score, the other races usually need invasion tactics just to match my home field advantage. If the Torian AI realized just how quickly it could replace their troops, they could end up being my biggest threat.

When your morale is 100% your population growth is doubled which is 100% bonus not 200%.
4x population growth is a 300% bonus (i.e., 100% base + 300% bonus)