Colony Growth - Tip says %, but seems to be absolute

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This is confusing me. I've colonised the Gold Coast (my first "tropical" colony) and I'm only getting 8 colonists/year growth.

Now the growth tooltip says:
Base: +50
Innovative vs Narrowminded: +10%
Tropical: -25%
No Adjacent Controlled: -5%
Native Aggressiveness: -22.5%

Now if those figures were really percentages, I make it a total of -42.5%, meaning growth should be just about 27/year , i.e. 57.5% of 50.

But it looks like in actual fact, the figures are not percentages, but absolute numbers, because 8 = 50-42. Is this "works as intended" and simply a display error? Or am I missing something?

 

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Fairly certain it's just a display error. There are several values in the game which display as % but really aren't.

 

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Could it be that your colonial maintenance is low?

 

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Move your cursor/gauntlet from the word "Growth" to the growth percentage number and read that tooltip; it will provide different information that may explain the situation better.

For example, this should show you the effects of National Focus, presence of CoT, intolerance, neighbor modifiers....

 

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No the issue is that all those % values are simply not actually % values. If you have a base colony growth of 50 with a +10% modifier it means an extra +10 people, not +5 (10% of 50).

 

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One "little thing" that needs to be fixed with the (final) 5.2 patch

 

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Atlanteax said:

One "little thing" that needs to be fixed with the (final) 5.2 patch

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If that patch is final (from what I have seen of notes). I will burn down the world.

 

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Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

 

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Chronicler said:

If that patch is final (from what I have seen of notes). I will burn down the world.

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If you burn down the world, how am I going to play EU3?

 

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Kurblius said:

If you burn down the world, how am I going to play EU3?

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If Heaven exists there will be EU3, and no bugs!

 

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Chronicler said:

If that patch is final (from what I have seen of notes). I will burn down the world.

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Might be an epic patch

 

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A 'final' 5.2 patch does not necessarily mean there will not be a 5.3 or a later Expansion.

5.1 was said to be 'final' too...

 

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Atlanteax said:

5.1 was said to be 'final' too...

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Only in the sense that it was not 'beta' which I assume was how you were referring to the (final) 5.2 as well which was probably misunderstood. I don't think anyone official (or anyone experienced with Paradox patching) would have ever said that 5.1 would be the last patch. In fact I always said that it was almost certainly NOT the last patch unless they did another expansion soon instead as they did after 4.1. As for 5.2, while there are still some issues to resolve the current beta is already a major improvement over 5.1.