Colonization should involve convincing people from other systems to move there.

Tryohazard

Tryohazard
I don't know where our stations get our people because Lord knows it is NOT from the station of contact. How on earth did 100,000 people get convinced to leave their homes? Are those numbers being taken from the populations of other systems? I think it should be, but I dont think it is. I mean how much has our population increased in only two months? I feel like that would have been a good way to realistically control the expansion of the bubble.
 
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Cosmo

Cosmo
Tryohazard said:
I don't know where our stations get our people because Lord knows it is NOT from the station of contact. How on earth did 100,000 people get convinced to leave their homes? Are those numbers being taken from the populations of other systems? I think it should be, but I dont think it is. I mean how much has our population increased in only two months? I feel like that would have been a good way to realistically control the expansion of the bubble.
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These people could be incubated at the colony.
 

Kzak

Kzak
The Bubble's population could increase by that amount in a very short time, given the number of humans is likely up in the trillions.
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Come on, this is just something that has to be abstracted away and not thought of in terms of realism.

If you want to bring reality into it, building a station would take years. Should we have to wait that long for stations to come online?

Should FD model the birth/death rates and migration of all systems in the game? You think the weekly tick is a problem now? Imagine them needing to update all that info as well! I think the server hamsters would go on indefinite strike.

Easier just to handwave it away rather than worry about it.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Tryohazard said:
I don't know where our stations get our people because Lord knows it is NOT from the station of contact. How on earth did 100,000 people get convinced to leave their homes? Are those numbers being taken from the populations of other systems? I think it should be, but I dont think it is. I mean how much has our population increased in only two months? I feel like that would have been a good way to realistically control the expansion of the bubble.
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Cosmo said:
These people could be incubated at the colony.
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Or removed from cryostorage, it is a long time since the bubble last expanded the surplus population had to go somewhere when there were no thargoid invasions to solve the problem.
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42

Colonization should involve convincing people from other systems to move there.​

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I would also think whatever people we import from whatever station should have an influence on the factions present.

Instead of simply dragging the faction over from the wherever the colonisation contact was, the factions should be brought in. It would have made a nice mini game loop for the cmdr to get sponsoring factions while building the first facility. Perhaps the first facility remains incomplete until factions are present and a starter-population is present.
 

Shadowsnog

Shadowsnog
you can always sell occupied escape pods to your system ^^
but my fav way of increasing population is catching a pirate and disabling its drives. there you go, you live here now :p
 

Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
Lets GOOOOOO!!!!!

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More seriously there should be adverts for it mixed into station feeds if there are places new nearby.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Tryohazard said:
Are those numbers being taken from the populations of other systems?
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Total population of all newly colonised systems is a bit over 500 million confirmed in EDDN, so maybe close to a billion if you account for old data / systems not sent to 3rd-party tools / etc.
Total population of the pre-colonisation bubble is 6.6 trillion, so the total population change is somewhere between 1/5000th and 1/10000th

The big billion-population systems only report (on the system map, anyway) to the nearest 0.1 billion, so you could hide the population change for colonisation within the rounding errors of 20-30 of the big ELW systems (and there are over 1000 of them)



On the other side, the lowest population pre-colonisation system I think is Col 285 Sector ZE-P c6-21 with 17 inhabitants.
(Yes, it will still offer multiple passenger missions to transport the entire population three times over on a holiday. Best not to think too hard about it)
 
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