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ORIGINAL: Gareth_Bryne

szabferi - Frankly speaking, no, they won't. Unless you made a late-start galaxy,OR you've captured\colonized a populous indy world OR built a couple of wonders. Population growth was intentionally cut in the first expansion (IIRC). Besides, your capital world has a 0% distance corruption bonus.

A strategic idea would be to move your capital to a new colony and see what happens...

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76
PLEASE ALLOW MODDING FOR:

Facilities,components,resources,prices in the next expansion rather than more slider madness.

IN THE NEXT EXPANSION.Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

Like the crazy bloated late game economy I have moaned about this and it's still a major issue for the game as it takes colonies about 50 game years to become relavent, which in DW terms is a mature game....The home world becomes far too important for most of the game which is not good for the A.I either.

Advanced passenger ships only transport 2400k to new colonies which is the reason it takes an age.I would change it to 1,000,0000 at least.


PLEASE ALLOW MODDING FOR:

Facilities,components,resources,prices in the next expansion rather than more slider madness.

IN THE NEXT EXPANSION.Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

Like the crazy bloated late game economy I have moaned about this and it's still a major issue for the game as it takes colonies about 50 game years to become relavent, which in DW terms is a mature game....The home world becomes far too important for most of the game which is not good for the A.I either.

Advanced passenger ships only transport 2400k to new colonies which is the reason it takes an age.I would change it to 1,000,0000 at least.


PLEASE ALLOW MODDING FOR:

Facilities,components,resources,prices in the next expansion rather than more slider madness.

IN THE NEXT EXPANSION.Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: WoodMan

No it was increased in every expansion so far and in some patches too. So was the speed of migration. I'm happy with it now, you get your colonies to bloom in the late game which is fun, rather than establishing bases which are immediately profitable and play like a 10 min RTS like starcraft or something!

I have had planets overtake myu homeworld before. If he has high populations and no money it is because of lack of development. If he has low population then he just needs to be patient.

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ORIGINAL: WoodMan



1 million is way too high for my tastes. I'm happy with it as it is now. So yes I agree, please make these things moddable instead of enforcing changes in patches!

I think if I were to design a game like Distant Worlds I'd try and make it so that the galaxy developed through three stages, each a different and enjoyable experience for the player.

1)Early Age: The empires race each other to colonize, claim territory etc. The homeworld is key, all other colonies being young at this stage. Wars will be fought with few ships and troops due to lack of strong economies.

2)Middle Age: The galaxy is pretty much colonized fully now and the colonies have started to develop. You start to see a difference in economies as the young colonies start to bring in some cash. As the economies grow so do the militaries and you start to see obvious super powers emerging towards the end of this stage.

3)Late Age: The colonies now reach similar values to the homeworlds, meaning that the leading empires start to get huge economies. It is now up to the few superpowers to battle it out with massive economies, huge fleets, enormous ground armies and high levels of technology.

I think that would be a great game and it doesn't require colonies to grow fast, in-fact it is entirely based on them not growing fast!

In the current situation I can see why some people would want things faster, but I would really hope this would be optional, I've opposed it about 5 times in a row and every time it gets made faster and faster and it hasn't made the game better yet and I don't think it will, it just makes the game faster, not better

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

Wouldnt faster colony growth make the crazy bloated late game economy even worse? I love the sliders btw whats wrong with more options for the player? A slider for the economy and resources scales would be an awesome addition!

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

Wouldnt faster colony growth make the crazy bloated late game economy even worse? I love the sliders btw whats wrong with more options for the player? A slider for the economy and resources scales would be an awesome addition!

The bloated economy is just another ignored issue that never got balanced just like irelavent new colonies.Both need to be fixed by Codeforce.

I like sliders but if the game was truly moddable having all these game slider would not be needed.

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ORIGINAL: WoodMan
What is the development or "culture" level on your other colonies? And the populations? You will need them to be highly developed, which requires luxury resources (at least constant stocks of at least 5).

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ORIGINAL: pipewrench

szabferi,

This might give you a hint.




What WoodMan has said is quite correct.

I can only really add that population growth is like a pyramid. As soon as you find your second colony close the door and tell people to re-settle.

In my experience it works like a pyramid,

This is on the hardest settings by the way and not one planet was invaded or found with a population.

As soon as you have colonized your first planet set the home planets sliders to resettle. Do this as a planet policy not empire wide.

Raise taxes and push your population to get out. My taxes are now paying for crash programs.

Notice that my second planet has no smile which means my taxes are up and now both planets are on resettle. This now feeds 4 which feeds 8 etc. The big planets have just enough happiness to keep growing but are refusing any new races or colonists. Any new races will go to your small colonies.

This is still slow but your passenger ships are finally doing something useful because you are directing them where not to drop off colonists.

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ORIGINAL: WoodMan

Remember resettle doesn't always resettle them in your own Empire. I just resettled a Quameno population into the Ikkuro empire and now my Haakonish have the Ocean planet to themselves. Oddly, the game leaves 1m Quameno on the planet and won't remove them (which would remove them from my Empire entirely). Not sure if that is a bug or design.