How to fix pop growth+migration. You welcome

[happyscrub]

https://flic.kr/p/SEZpQS

I was dreaming about stellaris, apparently. I woke up with this vision from GOD!


edit: The 0.5 base growth is way too low. That would be 200 months before a new pop is placed on planet. It was the 1st number that pop'd in head when I created this. Buff it to what ever number you want. The framework is what really matters

 

[happyscrub]

 

[Typee]

Yes, many people think parallel pop growth would be more efficient/clearer.

But the problem with that model is that the pop system isn't granular enough to make sense. It would work fine on a big mature planet, but on fairly new colonies, it would be pretty bad.

Imagine you have a recent colonies with 5 pops on it, all from different species. All of them start with 0 growth, and all of them start ticking at a rate of 1/5th the normal growth rate.
Your colony would stay at 5 pops forever, and then suddenly tick to 10 pops almost all at once. Not so great.


Job-based immigration/emmigration, however, absolutely needs to be a thing. Not so much based on open jobs (there are never any open specialist jobs), but based on the profficiency of the people working the available jobs (i.e. a scientist race should move to a planet where science jobs are done by a miner race and take their jobs from them). The displaced pop could even get a negative happiness modifier ("THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!")

 

[metalosse]

The problem with jab based migration is that it requires to have free jobs, which happens rarely. Unless you make pops swap, but it would require to redo the system from scratch.

 

[happyscrub]

I tried