Morale and Population Growth

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When calculating the population growth does it use the global morale value or each planet's morale value? For example, if all my planets except for one have morale 100% giving me a global morale of 99%, do my planets with morale 100% still get the 100% bonus population grownth?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
It is determined locally, AFAIK.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What are the exact growth rates and how do they correspond to the color coding on the cov manager?

I know 100% doubles population, but what are the exact growth rates for the green yellow and red colors?

I can't remember what exact percentages are?
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Here is a discovery I made in April:

https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=162&aid=115100
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Lots of confusion on that page, Michael.

The wikipedia (for once) has things right:

https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Population

Look at the stuff written after "game version 1.1". That's accurate.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In theory, the wiki accurately explains the population growth as outlined by Brad in the 1.1 notes. However what I did was examine the actual data and realized that the population increase was a constant number rather than a percentage of the population. I haven't tested this out with 1.2, but I will!
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
After doing a test I can confirm the wiki is correct that the normal % growth is normally 3% or 75 million whichever is smaller.

This means that after 2.5 billion on a planet, 75 million (or 150 million with 100% approval) is the maximum amount of normal growth that can occur per turn. Of course, this was tested without racial traits or wonders that add to population growth.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Same thing happens with racial traits and wonders. Calculate the base first, which is the smaller of 3% and 75M as you say. Then apply the morale bonuses to that. Then apply the race bonus on top of that.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I just did a test. A planet with local morale 100% but global moral < 100% had less population after 5 turns then when I reloaded and kept the global morale 100%. So it must follow the global morale. I think it makes more sense to use the local morale for each planet. Stardock would you please consider changing this in v1.3?

Paul D.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nope, it follows local morale, not global. I think it's more likely you bodged the test...specifically, you probably forgot that when you reload, the first time you press the turn button the game doesn't actually advance a turn in terms of population growth.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes it is local. When I ran the test the first time I must have miscounted the number of turns. The second time I ran the test I checked the results after each turn.