| Growth/production boost |
Wed, 03 December 2003 12:56  |
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 LEit |
 | Lt. Commander |
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Registered: April 2003
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WARNING: Math follows
There is a way to get a small boost to your freighter growth. I used this quite a bit in RWIAB, and I think the net effect was noticeable.
If you have 1000 pop in orbit, and a 20% growth rate (10% on ships) you will grow 100 pop.
If you fill the freighter with minerals from the ground, and let the overflow go to the ground, that pop will land before production, so you can either get a production boost, or you could lift the 100 pop beforehand, and have the dropping pop replace what you had just lifted.
That 100 can also have the same thing applied to it, the net result is that you could lift 111 pop, and the overflow would replace that.
This gives you a boost to your growth, for a 20% race you can grow at 1/9 instead of 1/10. To ease the shifting of cargo I only did this for full freighters after a while, so a Super Freighter with 2700 pop would load 300.
This small difference (1.11%) adds up over time, in 50 years you will grow 117x for a 10% growth, for 1/9 growth, you will grow 194x. At 70 years you will have 2x the growth of a race that doesn't do this. Only applying it to full freighters will slow that down somewhat.
The general formula for the boost is: 1/(2/pgr-1) (pgr is your growth rate - .2 for 20%), but full super freighter calculations are much easier: just pull up what it would grow if full, so for 19% growth, a full freighter will grow 285. Therefore, if your freighter has 2715, pull the 285 from the ground, and the overflow will replace the pop pulled.
In RWIAB I had a 20% IS, one of the big benefits of 20% is that the calculations are easier.
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