One of my favorite features from MOO2 was the tech tree -- each technology level you researched made you pick from three available technologies. After you made your decision, the only way to get the other two technologies was to trade for them or steal them.
I've noticed sometimes when I invade planets and I win by a large margin that I get one of my troop transports back, but the population still remains on the planet. For example, I just attacked a world with 2 transports and 2000M troops. I won the battle with 1700 troops (using Info Warfare). After the battle the planet had 1700M population, but I still had one of the troop transports with 1000M troops in orbit. Seems like the bug is that the planet should only have 700M population -- the 10
We know that population growth is so massive as to always put us at the 200M population growth cap, thereby rendering population growth racial bonuses meaningless. Using scenarios, I did some playing around with the "PopulationGrowth" variable to try and determine the mechanics of population growth and make the game a bit more realistic. The following info can be used by players to edit scenarios for themselves, and will hopefully be considered as a way to rebalance the population growth value
So far, having a great time with the game, but I have a couple questions regarding game mechanics that I haven't figured out yet -- Population Growth seems to occur in blocks of 200 if your planetary morale is above 40%. I have played around with different population growth rates, and the growth still occurs in blocks of 200, so I'm guessing that changing a races growth rates affects thresholds rather than the actual number gained. Just guessing though, because this is kind of ha
