I've noticed something that i feel needs to be addressed.
When your home system has an influence radius of 0 it is possible to have either 1, 2 or 3 planets that you can build on. These can range from a Population 1 planet to a Population 3 planet initialy. As a test i gave myself 5000 credits on turn 1 and every other turn i purchased a building on a planet until such time as i had no more available buildings to construct. The planets were Pop 1, 2 and 3 so i had a maximum population of 6. With no facility to support an increased population on any of these planets it should not be possible for the Planetary population to keep growing but it does, continually. I would like to see a system that allows some growth over the planetary limit but only by 1 or 2 population points. As usual the excess population can cause unrest/unhappiness for the player but that's what happiness buildings and luxury resources are for. Once your borders expand through influence the excess population can be shipped off to the new planets just absorbed into your little empire thus removing the unhappiness problem until such time as your population outgrows the planets in your system again.
Is there anyway to limit this growth as i've suggested?
When your home system has an influence radius of 0 it is possible to have either 1, 2 or 3 planets that you can build on. These can range from a Population 1 planet to a Population 3 planet initialy. As a test i gave myself 5000 credits on turn 1 and every other turn i purchased a building on a planet until such time as i had no more available buildings to construct. The planets were Pop 1, 2 and 3 so i had a maximum population of 6. With no facility to support an increased population on any of these planets it should not be possible for the Planetary population to keep growing but it does, continually. I would like to see a system that allows some growth over the planetary limit but only by 1 or 2 population points. As usual the excess population can cause unrest/unhappiness for the player but that's what happiness buildings and luxury resources are for. Once your borders expand through influence the excess population can be shipped off to the new planets just absorbed into your little empire thus removing the unhappiness problem until such time as your population outgrows the planets in your system again.
Is there anyway to limit this growth as i've suggested?