Yes. I do it all the time.

I play mostly on Medium maps. I do it because i want to get my new worlds paying quickly - pop equals credits.

Why have a planet of 12 billion full, not making use of it's ability to use the Malthusian rules fully ..and a newly conquered PQ 6 world with 120 million that will take years to grow to full size...the 12 billion pop world will replenish itself in weeks or months - with emigration now I have 18 Billion taxpayers in a short time frame. I make use of the 12 billion pop world's ability to regrow populationj quickly.

Oh yeah. You can ferry 6B population to all the class-1 worlds and they'll actually make you money.

edit... i forgot that in DL i will sometimes move population to planets i claimed using an upgraded to colony ship cargo hull. Upgrading cargo hulls to colony ships i hear has been nerfed in DA.

Hey GW! Where have you been? I play on medium to gigantic, preferring gigantic of course and at one time I did use the 'emigration' technique to build up a planet's pop, especially if it was on the edge of my territory/influence borders. It really does wonders for the planet growth as can be expected. Lately however I have pretty much stopped this practice and go more with what Mystikmind said and just ferry 'troops' for invasions vs. building up a planet. Doesn't mean I won't do it in a pinch if necessary, but for the most part I've just been blowing everyone to smithereens.

I play on gigantic and I do it occasionally dependent on the colonization strategy that I'm using. I've never bothered with it on conquered worlds because by that time in the game getting a single planet profitable is really not all that important.

I use at least two different colonization strategies, more if you include variations on a theme. But basically, I'll go with a maxed out grab for as many planets as I can get as fast as I can get them or I'll go for much slower colony rush taking only prime PQ planets and building them into strong planets as quickly as I can (quality over quantity). There are pros and cons for each method and I'd recommend that folks try both sooner or later. I think more recently I'm slightly more in favor of the quality over quantity method.

In this case I do often bus pop from my home planet to recently colonized worlds instead of being in a mad rush to get another new planet. Of course when you do this you don't lose the colony ship and so you can still go back to your home planet, get more pop and then finally colonize a new planet. However, this can take significant amounts of time to do. The most I've done for any one planet is another 1 to 2 loads of colonists however this was when the colony module could carry 500 colonists.

If you use this method I think it pays to make engine speed an early research priority, this is not something you want to do at 3 or 4 parsecs a turn.

Yesterday i was using this technique to populate 4 planets that we're all in range of each other. I would move 3~4b colonists from the home planet to planet 2, then from planet2 to planet 3, until i had the colonists on the last planet. At 250 million per module with only one module, i assure you it wasn't fun.

What i really wonder about is, does the AI use this technique as well?

What's the maximum population growth in DL and DA?

I keep a small fleet of space liners with 2-3 colony modules around to beef up population after I spore enemy worlds. It helps the economy and also makes the planets harder to retake. By the time I control > 2/3 of the galaxy, though, my economy is normally on enough of a roll that I don't need to repopulate, and the threat of reinvasion is much smaller than the click hassle factor. I just start building fertility clinics and forget the transports after that.



Spore. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfrakker in the galaxy. Accept no substitutes.

I don't use transports for this, no. Anyways, they're happier when they have less people on them. I need to give them time to build a few morale improvements before I require that they have people to give me money, and by the time their morale is at ~100% they've already reproduced enough on their own.

You could drop 1000-2000 troops on the planet and let them knock up all the colonists daughters.
  

With that in mind, what would be the best population-to-farm/entertainment structures, assuming that's all you built?

So let's say that population is 600M. The income would be ~24bc right? What's the maintenance on a basic colony vs. a farm vs. an basic entertainment?

Edit: This was mis posted somehow.