Question about growth rates

[unmerged(4907)]

I have noticed something about the listed growth rates. The actual growth does not match to what is displayed in the province information. Example: a level 5 colony with a displayed growth rate of 12%. (I am assuming that is supposed to be 12% per year.) That should be 1% per month. 1% of 500 is 5. So the colony should grow by 5 each month. But when I watch, it only grows by 1.

Larger cities show the same problem. A city of 14,000 with a growth rate of 8% should grow by about 93 per month { (.08/12)*14000 }. Instead it only grows by 9.

After observing various provinces and noting the actual population increase, it seems to be one-tenth the displayed rate with a minimum growth per month of 1 person. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there an explanation for it (other than someone misplaced a decimal in the code)?

All this is using the 1.09 English version.

 

[unmerged(2833)]

well, it's simply per ten years.

 

[unmerged(3627)]

Except for Isle Royale

 

[unmerged(2833)]

Which is per ten days

 

[Orm]

Originally posted by Heyesey
Except for Isle Royale

What's the deal with that? Is it a bug of some sorts or is it meant to be that way?

 

[unmerged(2833)]

Originally posted by beowulf


What's the deal with that? Is it a bug of some sorts or is it meant to be that way?

Seriously?
It's hard to say.

 

[Orm]

Originally posted by Maur13

Seriously?
It's hard to say.

I've heard seafood is a strong afrodisiac... maybe they eat a lot of oisters and stuff.

 

[unmerged(3525)]

Must be the seafood. The same thing happens with Macquarie, Timara, Kitimak, Aleutes and Falklands.

 

[unmerged(4238)]

I votes for the oysters!!!

John J

 

[unmerged(4907)]

Originally posted by Maur13
well, it's simply per ten years.

Is that actually documented somewhere or are you just assuming that?

 

[unmerged(2833)]

It's common wisdom

 

[unmerged(234)]

Originally posted by The Traveler

Is that actually documented somewhere or are you just assuming that?

Someone from Paradox wrote it on the forum somentime, and it seems to corenspond with what happens in the game (except for a few island where the poulation seems to increaseces like rabbits)

 

[Vulture]

So what's the deal with Isle Royale. I know it has a big growth rate, just as the other North American provinces: Delaware, Manhattan, Roanoke, Chesapeake, Quebec, Nova Scotia, etc...
Is it that outrageous??

 

[BiB]

Yeah, it's about 10 times quicker

 

[Agelastus]

I think the bug's tied to negative factors. Isle Royal doesn't have them (not even the -0 you see in some other provinces) so has a pure 12% growth rate, which is applied on a yearly basis for some reason. Have you ever noticed how some provinces always have a growth rate one percentage point less than the visible mathematics would suggest?

 

[Vulture]

Oh ok thx BiB, never noticed.
I only know that Delaware etc. have a rate of about 10%...
Yeeeeeks, Isle Royale must have a big one then

 

[BiB]

For some reason the 12% there is close to being a yearly increase

 

[Vulture]

lmao... Although I colonize Isle Royale almost every game, I never noticed the huge growth.

 

[Agelastus]

It's not very missable-1 colonist=city in thirty years is very unusual. The same thing actually happens with overseas CoTs, when you study them. If the growth rate is greater than 12% you see them showing the same abnormal growth rate, the same with any provinces they border if the two percent bonus pushes the colony above a 12% growth rate. Must be a population level or type thing though-the population rises above a certain level and the growth rate drops back to normal (it appears.)

 

[Vulture]

Ok thx for that