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Thu, 08 April 2010 22:07  |
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 Marduk |
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I ran through a few numbers and I think the best balance is to weight populations proportionally to the hab value (assuming the same orbitals, at least). So if you have 500k pop to split between four systems at 100%, 75%, 50% and 25%, I would suggest putting 200k at the 100%, 150k at the 75%, 100k at the 50% and 50k at the 25%. (500k pop/250% total hab = 2k pop/% hab at a system.) Resource production is not that far off from the maximum possible and pop growth remains good.
Having different orbitals at different systems only affects this in terms of crowding affecting growth and smaller population caps possibly affecting resource production. If crowding is becoming a problem then it is time to upgrade the orbital; if crowding is a problem and the orbital is a death star, it's not really a problem. Regarding where to fill first when filling is required, I'm inclined to fill the high value systems first. Their production is better and by the time filling is an issue managing pop growth should not be as critical.
Let's see... say you have a 100% system and two 50% systems, all with ultrastations, total pop one million. For simpler example math you have chosen a 10% PGR, have an En/10 coefficient and are at energy 10. I would advocate distributing the population so:
100% - 500k pop, 707 resources, 71 mines and 50k pop/year
(2x) 50% - 250k pop, 250 resources, 50 mines and 12.5k pop/year
Total 1M pop, 1207 resources, 171 mines, 75k pop/year.
If you split the pop up at 333k per system (334k at the 100%), your resources will be 1154, you'll have 174 mines, and you will breed 66.7k pop/year.
Hmm, now I'm noticing something about squares - it looks like the optimal distribution would have one-quarter the population at a world with half the hab value... let's see:
100% - 668k pop, 817 resources, 81 mines and 52.5k pop/year
(2x) 50% - 166k pop, 203 resources, 41 mines and 16.6k pop/year - roughly one quarter of the pop at the 100% world
Total 1M pop, 1223 resources, 163 mines, breeding 85.7k pop
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