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Post by CdrPlatypus on May 1, 2014 23:15:37 GMT -5
How do you determine population growth rate? I keep running out of housing. I don't currently see a way to anticipate when a new citizen will be born.
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Post by Cory Trese on May 2, 2014 0:02:24 GMT -5
Assuming you are playing on Normal, you should expect rapid grown of your colonies for the first 2 in game years, basically the first phase.
Later colonies will grow fairly rapidly to start with -- your goal should be to keep them at "X/X+1" so if you had 3 Population, 4 Housing.
This is the balancing act of early colony management -- deciding to build Hab Units or Factories/Mines.
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Post by ChocoCrowbar on May 2, 2014 0:06:26 GMT -5
I'm keeping it at X/X+2 just in case, last game I had a colony jump from 2/3 to 3/3, when I started to build a Hab unit around 20% it jumped to 4/3, then at 60% it went to 5/3. Havent had time to build ships this game, but my colonies are happy.
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Post by Cory Trese on May 2, 2014 0:11:04 GMT -5
I'm keeping it at X/X+2 just in case, last game I had a colony jump from 2/3 to 3/3, when I started to build a Hab unit around 20% it jumped to 4/3, then at 60% it went to 5/3. Havent had time to build ships this game, but my colonies are happy. Sounds like you are on the right track. Ship building early on is counter productive in terms of resource expenditure. Explore, Expand, Exploit your High Mineral Worlds. Try to find Resources to Explore without getting into a Xeno mess. |
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 5:19:10 GMT -5
Thats hard. I've restarted 4 times and all but one time I start with Terrox coming after me on the fist turn.
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Post by Cory Trese on May 2, 2014 12:03:50 GMT -5
Thats hard. I've restarted 4 times and all but one time I start with Terrox coming after me on the fist turn. Have it on my list to fix the starting location selector. Sometimes the Xeno start directly on top of the player and that wasn't my intention. |
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on May 2, 2014 21:26:58 GMT -5
It seems Cory wants us to duke it out gladiator style against the Xenos. Damaged Colony Hives and Templars vs Xeno Armada. Seems lile good odds to me!
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