Resettlement Questions

[qaija]

I am trying to better understand resettlement. When should I do it and how do I do it.

I have 7 colonies. When I select population, five of them have a green colored number ranging from .3 to 1.2 while two of them have a yellow number with a minus sign in front of it (-2.4 and -1.7).

Questions:

Should I resettle at all?

Should I move people from the colonies with minus signs to ones that do not? How many should I move? Should I move more to the ones with a low green number or a high green number.

I had a lot of miners working on the colony with -2.4 and transferred 3 of them to a planet with a green .3. When I selected the third one I got an overpopulation sign. I assume this means two was the maximum number I could resettle. Is this correct?

I am playing Nations of Earth and earth is the colony with -2.4 population.

Thank you for your help!

 

[qaija]

Okay, I'll bump this one time and then if still no response I'll just let it die. Is the impact of resettling people from one system to another just so small that no one bothers with it? Doe anyone reading this post ever do it?

 

[Somebody248]

I have 7 colonies. When I select population, five of them have a green colored number ranging from .3 to 1.2 while two of them have a yellow number with a minus sign in front of it (-2.4 and -1.7).

It sounds like you're looking at migration, which is not quite the same thing as resettlement. Each planet has an immigration score and an emigration score. If emigration is higher than immigration (and assuming there are valid immigration targets), pop growth will be subtracted from that planet and sent to other planets based on their immigration score. Note that no pops actually move due to this migration, it just moves pop growth.

What's probably going on in your game is just emigration to newly settled colonies. Every time you settle a new colony, emigration push is added to your established worlds (in this case Earth) and the new colony is given increased immigration attractiveness. This effect lasts 15 years or until the new colony reaches 10 pops. There's not really a good way around this, but you usually don't lose any pop growth overall, so it's not really much of an issue.

Should I move people from the colonies with minus signs to ones that do not? How many should I move? Should I move more to the ones with a low green number or a high green number.

If all your pops are employed and you have enough housing, stability, amenities, etc., you're probably better off just ignoring migration. (migration treaties are still useful, but that's a whole different thing)

I had a lot of miners working on the colony with -2.4 and transferred 3 of them to a planet with a green .3. When I selected the third one I got an overpopulation sign. I assume this means two was the maximum number I could resettle. Is this correct?

As long as you have the resources and pops available, there should be no limit on how much resettlement you can do. However, resettling a pop to a planet without enough available jobs and housing will cause unemployment and overcrowding. If you want to move pops around, make sure to build these beforehand.

Should I resettle at all?

In general, this depends on how much micro you want to do. It's usually worthwhile to resettle pops away from low habitability worlds and unemployment, or onto ecumenopoli or ringworlds. You can also use resettlement to focus on getting your planets up to 25 pops one at a time, in order to maximize pop growth.

Alternatively, unemployed pops will usually resettle themselves automatically, seeking planets with high immigration scores and available jobs. This is usually less efficient than manual resettlement, but it's also a lot less micro intensive.

You could also just ignore resettlement and employ pops on the planets they grow on. As long as you don't have major habitability problems, this isn't that much worse than using resettlement, and will probably be easier to learn if you're new to the game.

 

[qaija]

Thank you Somebody! There are so many other things I am still learning that I will leave this one alone, at least for now. Thank you for informing me that this is not a major issue.