In my opinion, having a planetary carrying capacity makes things needlessly complicated and adds nothing beneficial to the whole system. For me, it is the number one reason why the new update feels bad and complicated. Seeing pop growth slowing down to a crawl, even though the planet has massive amounts of free housing and jobs, is unintuitive and frustrating.
Using only the housing capacity directly as the determing factor for the growth curve on the other hand is much more intuitive and gives the player direct agency over the system. Want more pop growth? Build more cities. Want less? Stop building cities. Pretty straight forward.
Furthermore, it would enable us to pre-plan planets such that housing slightly exceeds jobs, having a few unemplyed pops on our core worlds that gradually move away to the new colonies where jobs are available, without suffering a growth penalty. In the endgame, even an exquilibrium between jobs and housing could be achieved, if the player so desires.
The maximum number of districts is usually tied to the planet size, so this would naturally limit the max housing per planet as well. I truly don't see why a carrying capacity apart from housing is necessary at all.
Using only the housing capacity directly as the determing factor for the growth curve on the other hand is much more intuitive and gives the player direct agency over the system. Want more pop growth? Build more cities. Want less? Stop building cities. Pretty straight forward.
Furthermore, it would enable us to pre-plan planets such that housing slightly exceeds jobs, having a few unemplyed pops on our core worlds that gradually move away to the new colonies where jobs are available, without suffering a growth penalty. In the endgame, even an exquilibrium between jobs and housing could be achieved, if the player so desires.
The maximum number of districts is usually tied to the planet size, so this would naturally limit the max housing per planet as well. I truly don't see why a carrying capacity apart from housing is necessary at all.
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