How would you have population growth scale with habitability?

[Amorenkaire]

Thinking of tweaking the game with a mod that makes low hab planets more of a pain to settle, by giving a scaling 100% malus at zero habitability (up to normal at 100%), so that at least non-suitable colonies will take longer to become productive rather than making the optimum strategy to just rush every planet you can regardless. But I can't seem to get it to work.

I thought I'd be able to insert a line underneath pop_habitability in 00_static_modifiers to the effect of pop_growth_speed_reduction = 1, like the reduction for devastation, but it doesn't seem to be applying.

 

[wingren013]

G = pop growth after modifierd.
H = habitability
P = final growth

G * H = P

Also change pop growth to be based on the amount of pop on a planet so that the best move is to not colonize literally everything.

 

[Amorenkaire]

The problem is more figuring out how to make the mod work in the first place, was hoping someone could explain what I'm screwing up!

Giving a modifier to growth of large city worlds would make sense, but one step at a time.

 

[M@ni@c]

There are some unfunctional modifiers right now. Perhaps pop_growth_speed_reduction is one of them. Have you tried "pop_growth_speed = -1.0" instead?

 

[Amorenkaire]

I just tried that with -0.5 and it didn't seem to have an affect either. Although I think I might know something I was screwing up, maybe. I was testing it with a hive mind, so perhaps they have a separate habitability modifier (although seems unlikely, its something I should look into). I'll test with a normal empire next just in case.

 

[Amorenkaire]

Alright, got my answer. Static modifiers cannot be modded, and thus its not possible to add in a population growth value to the scaling habitability. And I'm not certain if that same code line could be used outside of the static modifiers files.

 

[M@ni@c]

Ah, right, static modifiers work along the (First in, only Served; FIOS) principle. You need to add your modded static modifier to a file earlier in the alphabet than 00_whatever. I suggest calling it !xxxwhatever.txt

 

[iteration2]

I've been trying to accomplish the same thing, and even taking FIOS into account, it's just not working. I tried altering the pop_growth_speed and pop_growth_speed_reduction values, and while the in-game planet habitability info displays the correct values, implying that these values are being registered, they don't actually seem to have any effect on the growth of the actual pops.