| Populating Other Planets Strategy |
Thu, 18 September 2008 04:11  |
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I figure I'd pick the brain trust, because the models I'm setting up are telling me things I'm not sure I believe. I've been playing around with some various strategies for population growth and I'm not sure what the best strategy is between two, if there is one, or if there's something in particular I'm overlooking.
I've read through the official guide and lots of other articles but I haven't found anything in particular that discusses the distribution of population from your HW. So here we go.
In a nutshell, my question is whether it's more efficient to:
a) start distributing from HW to all other new planets equally (well, by Hab probably), or;
b) focus on one planet until you have a second breeder, then you can focus on two others to get four total, then eight, sixteen, ... well, you get the idea.
The latter seems like it would be more efficient, but given the timescales we're talking about, I'm not sure if it actually ends up being more efficient? And of course, this is ignoring questions of whether it's better to have 100k people on ten worlds, or 500k on two, and the ease of pop-dropping...
At any rate, I've been running some models and in my tests it seems that, on a 30 year test, it's equally efficient. It doesn't matter what you do. As long as you're getting population off of high population worlds (all of them), then you get down to that sub-25% sweet spot of growth, and it's irrelevant whether you make a second breeder or just start growing everything.
I guess when you think about it, if you produce 100 people, and you move those people to a world 25% full or 5% full, they're going to grow the same. As long as you're not running into declining growth rates due to passing that max growth point, it's all moot...
But still, something tells me that I don't want to believe it. Any thoughts or articles or something? I'd love to RTFM on this particular issue but I can't seem to find anything that covers this kind of thing in particular.
Thanks!
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