You can build ferry ships by putting several advanced troop modules on a cargo hull.  With max miniaturization, you can build a ship capable of clearing or loading a planet in a few turns.  You can also build super colony ships by adding advanced troop transport modules along with a single colony module.

Run at 100% planetary approval and get 150M/wk.  Was that so hard?  Don't forget to get Aphrodisiac, either-that brings you to 1.5x75x2 or 224M/wk.  (As an additional note, your population growth ability is factored in when determining how much base growth you get in DA and TA, so it's doubly useful.)  Population growth can be bought at game start, but even before I capitulated to Breeder, I didn't use it, and frankly, it's not enough to compete with Breeder, either.

I know, Willy, I was just having fun with his reply.  If he was that concerned with pop growth, though, I imagine he'd play Breeder.

Also, for what it's worth, it's definitely 75M.  And like everything else in the game, modifications to the base value are truncated, which is why running at 100% approval with a 50% growth bonus gives you 224M growth rather than 225M growth (assuming you've hit the ceiling on base growth).

Jonnan, if you don't mind my asking, what SA are you using at present?

Even though we're a little OT.

Don't forget the cheap to build/buy recruitment center which provides a 20% population growth and 10% economic bonus.  It is usually the first thing I build/buy on a new planet.

This is probably obvious, but I'm not interpreting it at the moment: Define term= 'SA'?

On other subjects - Cutting off a farm doesn't kill people, it just encourages them to either revoke their citizenship or move to an underpopulated planet - Say's so right in the manual (Albeit not in so many words - {G}).

Jonnan

Ah - knew it was obvious - {G}.

At the moment, I'm playing the Unimatrix a Yor offshoot with the 'xenophobe' slowdown ability, which seems fun. Plus I want to play with the Yor tech tree - I'm fiddling around with modding and trying to learn the trees - {G}.

I'm a lttle surprised - I'm liking the Yor tree more than I thought I would from the beginning - that +3pop looks really lousy till you realize it combines with a morale boost.

Jonnan