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Regarding The Population

August 3, 2012 2:39:31 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

1. If the population represented loyalists, why are there so few of them on the planets (if the population is measured as it's shown, as individuals)?

2. Why would only a minority of people on the colonies be taxed (again, taking the population as individuals)?

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BrotherBulger
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Reply #1 August 3, 2012 10:16:36 AM
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I'm pretty sure when the devs decided to give terran planets 280 population, it wasn't to represent 280 individual people....

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Reply #2 August 3, 2012 10:44:42 AM
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Well, once could assume that the numbers you see are in the millions, they are just shortened for easier viewing.

 

( Population = 322 = 322000000 people paying tax/being citizens of your empire)

 

Considering that Sins is  game on an interstellar scale were huge empires fight each others, there is no reason for you to know if a planet has a population of 321.994994 or 321997943 people. 321 is all you need to know as a few more or less tax payers are of no consequence at this scale.So it is just for the easier viewing

 

I dont think that those are individuals, as an average fleet has a crew counts that goes into the 100000.

 

 

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Reply #3 August 3, 2012 10:54:48 AM
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Its hard to believe that asteroid or dwarf planet has population of 20 million......

....maybe thousand?:-E

 

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Reply #4 August 3, 2012 11:37:11 AM
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Well, keep in mind that any asteroid on the scale of the ones in the game is one big-ass asteroid. So if they increased the population by hollowing out or tunneling into the asteroid, then I'm guessing they could have a fairly sizable population.

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Reply #5 August 3, 2012 4:28:19 PM
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I know that it's likely that the population numbers were made for easier viewing, but, if the population was measured in individuals, why would only  minority of people on the planet be taxed (assuming that,on the average planet, there are several million people)?

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Reply #6 August 3, 2012 10:57:35 PM
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Population=the goverment in an abstract sense.

When you bomb a planet your not killing every living thing on it. Your knocking out the factions local government. So you can send your own leader planetside.

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Reply #7 August 3, 2012 11:10:24 PM
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No matter how you look at it, the planets' population doesn't scale well. An entire terran world only supporting 280 million people, even with all their future technology, makes no sense considering the US has over 300 million, and China and India have over 1 Billion. If its billions, then 20 billion is clearly too much for an asteroid.

So what is population? An arbitrary number that generates income for game purposes. No point trying to read anything more from it.

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Reply #8 August 4, 2012 10:58:25 AM
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Quoting GoaFan77,
reply 8
No matter how you look at it, the planets' population doesn't scale well. An entire terran world only supporting 280 million people, even with all their future technology, makes no sense considering the US has over 300 million, and China and India have over 1 Billion. If its billions, then 20 billion is clearly too much for an asteroid.

So what is population? An arbitrary number that generates income for game purposes. No point trying to read anything more from it.

 

Yeap. I've heard it's millions though, obviously since interstellar flight people can be spread out more than Earth, there would be a number of economic reasons for this. 20 million sounds a lot for an asteroid, even a dwarf planet. Regardless it's arbitrary like Geo says.

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