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Re: Best way to make a -F IS Thu, 09 August 2007 20:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Captain Maim wrote on Thu, 09 August 2007 18:33



Question: How do I calculate how many pop I need to properly hold a world at 300%? What's the over populating death rate? How does it work? That's something I've been really interested to know so I can compensate for it.


Death rate is 0.04% per % point over 100% cap. Thus a 200% cap planet is 100% over, and has a (0.04 * 100 = 4%) a 4% death rate. This maxes out at 400% capacity with a 12% death rate. There are a few reasons to have your pop higher than 300%, even though you gain no resources past 300%. You might be protecting a planet against pop drops or packets etc, otherwise there is no real need for it.

note -Peeps work at 50% past the 100% Cap

The Formula ends up being a little weird, because you drop pop on step 7 of the order of events, then production happens on step 12, then pop grows/dies on step 14. So, you never see your planet "fully at 300%". Now, I am no math wizard, but I put together a crappy spreadsheet I attached to my Posey sheet, and this is the formula I used. It might be wrong as I can't remember how far I got...but this is how I did it.

Formula for colonists in orbit would be

((A*B*C)/5000)*D/E

A = Desired capacity (300% = 300)
B = Planet value ( 88% = 88)
C = Max pop of a 100% world (1,000,000 or 1,100,000)
D = Colonist death rate MIN((A-100)*0.04,12)
E = Race growth rate (19% = 19)

Round off the 2 digits left of the decimal, and add '100' to the total. Smile

My actual formula in the excel sheet

=ROUND((((C9*C8*C11)/5000)*C15/C10),-2)+100

Good luck!
-Matt



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