[Distant Stars Spoilers] Is there any way to get a very specific pop to actually grow?

[Guthix]

So I got my brain slug event for the first time recently and I LOVE it but it seems nearly impossible for them to receive any population growth what so ever. The game consistently chooses other pops to grow instead, to the point where even if I colonize an empty planet with brain slugged humans, all subsequent human pops will be non-brain slugged, regardless of my efforts to prevent it.

 

[AlazkanAssassin]

Yes, there is. Click on the growing pop.

 

[eagletrekkie]

Yes, there is. Click on the growing pop.

This only works if you have population controls on.

 

[aprogressivist]

I've not played with Brain Slugs in the latest patch, but can you not gene mod them onto the rest of your humans?

 

[Talanic]

I've not played with Brain Slugs in the latest patch, but can you not gene mod them onto the rest of your humans?

Yep. Or just your research worlds.

 

[AlazkanAssassin]

This only works if you have population controls on.

True.
So two steps: Stop being a namby pamby egalitarian and institute the population controls you desire. THEN click on rhe growing pop.

 

[Guthix]

True.
So two steps: Stop being a namby pamby egalitarian and institute the population controls you desire. THEN click on rhe growing pop.

Excuse me I can't attain fully automated brain slug space communism if I enable population controls, thank you very much.

 

[Xephos Demonslayer]

So I got my brain slug event for the first time recently and I LOVE it but it seems nearly impossible for them to receive any population growth what so ever. The game consistently chooses other pops to grow instead, to the point where even if I colonize an empty planet with brain slugged humans, all subsequent human pops will be non-brain slugged, regardless of my efforts to prevent it.

Gene mod all the humans to have brain slugs. Cant grow anyone else if there's no one else to grow