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Farm and overpopulation

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Farm and overpopulation

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I don't know all the details on DA's mechanics, but so far I'm doing alright on normal difficulty. I keep having one problem, though: It seems that whenever my population is more than 12b or so, the planet's moral quickly plunges. Now, I know that there's a penalty on overpopulation and some such, but the effect is so strong that I basically need to avoid building farms on tiles with food bonus. A 100% bonus is borderline manageable, but a 300% bonus basically guarentees that a single farm will raise the population cap to dangerous level. This all seems a bit counter-intuitive. Am I missing something here?
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Reply #51 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
One SHOULD research up the farming tree. One should not build farms on +300 Farming tiles or more than two farms.
Reply #52 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Am I correct that a general corollary to this situation is that one should seldom if ever research advanced farming technologies?


I don't think that's the case, just don't build alot of them. There's still advantages to having a a reasonably large population, i.e. higher taxes and planetary defence. You just need to know where to draw the line.
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Reply #53 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There seems to be a native ability morale cap of 100%. I hate it. It really eats into the Krynn's bonus.
Reply #54 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
no... because one maxed farm on a non bonus tile gives you just about the perfect amount of pop to go with one maxed moral building. just be carful when you use the bonus tiles... make sure you have a specific goal in mind (aka: breeder world), and that you understand the moral penalty associated with high populations...
Reply #55 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just drop freighters full o machetes on the planet in question   
Reply #56 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Personally I hate this population morale penalty. I like building planets with mass populations. They should have at least took planet size into effect for population max. As far as I can tell a planets size only determines how big it looks on your screen.

Is there a way I can remove this morale penalty for population? I could give a shit less about metaverse, I just wanna build planets with bigger populations in my games.
Reply #57 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
As far as I can tell a planets size only determines how big it looks on your screen.


No, apparently there's a morale bonus for all planets 11 or larger due to planet quality. People are happier living on a nice world.