A really good planet with several yellow farm bonuses ans a couple of morale bonuses could end up with a population approaching 200b. Remember that population over 25b incur no further morale penalty.

Oops missunderstood the question!

15,000 / ~300 = 50B per planet average.

That is pretty amazing. Clearly this is from the days of v1.2. I don't think anything like this has been seen in well over a year.

The best I remember seeing was a game by Magnumanic with 18T but he had close to 500 planets for a 36B per planet average.


Yes. Once past 25B there is no further penalty but even so the max pop that any planet can achieve by growth is 100B for PQ17 and above. I suppose you could possibly bus pop in to get any arbitrary amount, but even growing to 100B took forever.

The last 100B planet I saw was one done by DethAdder in V1.31 after major nerfage of morale buildings but before the morale bonus was removed from the stockmarket. Even then it was a major pain and it was just one of those "because it was there" kind of things. I doubt I've seen a planet over 20B in over a year. With the additional morale nerfage in DA it's not worth it to go above 13B.

Oh well. Those were the days. Nowadays the only place you can use a 300% food bonus tile is on a PQ8 where your pop is limited to about 14.7B anyway or if your playing DL perhaps a PQ9 with it's 20B limit.

The max limit for population is 100 billion. You simple can't get above that limit.

Not true. It is true that the planet will not grow beyond it's limit and that the max limit is 100B but if you have farms to support additional pop you can offload colony ships or transports and leave them on the planet and they won't die.

I actually do this when for example you leave a PQ5 as the last planet you capture from an opponent and so this lousy PQ5 with it's 4.3B or so pop limit is left as a civilization capital with food to support 12B. In this case I do exactly the same thing which is bus population in on transports up to the 12B farm limit. Why I bother to do this is another question for which I don't really have a good answer.

Admittedly I never have had a 100B planet let alone a 100B planet with excess farm capability and so therefore I have never tried this out nor do I know anyone that ever has. However, I only allowed the possibility of a planet with more than 100B to allow Mystikmind a graceful way out of his 200B statement regardless of how silly the actual implementation would be. Of course he then compounded it by mentioning 400B however you can lead a horse to drink but you can't make him water if you get my drift.

I don't get it?

What happens if you do get a 26 planet with 10 yellow farm bonuses? half the farm bonuses along with their farms don't function once the population reaches 100b?

I build farms on 100% bonus tiles but 300% tiles?

I don't mind a few planets with crappy approval but I do mind planets with less than 20% approval that lose pop. Of course this condition is self correcting in that once a planet loses some pop it's approval goes up, but I do like to keep all my planets within a reasonable range together so that I don't have any "sore thumbs" sticking out. If you wish you can attribute this to my wanting to treat all planets in a similar manner so that I don't have to think about the special needs of any particular individual planet.


Yep. That's affirmative. See the Wiki Population article.

Hi!

I just checked with the game: planet simply does not produce more food as for 100B pop. I've updated the wiki.

BR, Iztok

It was on 1.2, most planets had about 22B, was usually the norm anymore drastically effected morale. and again i have no idea how many planets i had i do know it was over 275.

I think that 24t is easily attainable. In a gig abundant all on DA...1.50x3 i believe it was i had around 880 planets and when i finished the game i had around 18t in pop.

That was with most planets having 16b pop. i did not though draw out the game and let every planet hit the 16b mark.

I was hoping to try and hit a civ wide pop of 50t but the new planet cap will stop that. It wouldn't be that hard with every planet having 16b pop.

And here I thought 2 trillion was good