Population

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## Introduction

**Population** is a basic measure of how many people live on the world.

Population growth can be earned in four ways.

* The first way is through the facilities Children's Creche, Transit Network, Spaceport and Coral Reef. This is the population growth that is boosted by the 'Population' effect some governors have.
* The second way is through native birthrate. This is the population growth that is boosted by the 'Birthrate' effect that some governors have.
* The third way is through events like Population Boom.
* The fourth way is through the Space Elevator.

When the planet reaches the 'habitable' habitability, the population will increase beyond habitation limits, because people will be living freely on the surface, although they will still be considered part of a city.

If the world becomes uninhabitable, all population in excess of the habitation facility limits immediately disappears.

## Habitations

Build habitations such as the Hab Unit, the Hab Complex and the Hab Dome for the population to live in. How much population the Hab facilities can accommodate is influenced by the world's culture.

The Sons of Hephaestus start out being able to fit 30% more people into habitations because of a cultural bonus. Daughters of Gaia start off with a -15% decrease in habitation limits.

Beginner mode doubles the capacity of the habitations.

Make sure to always have multiple habitation facilities per city in case lose one of them, because nobody really want that to means the entire city becomes abandoned and lose all the culture had in there!

The Itty Bitty Living Space event, exclusive to the Sons of Hephaestus can allow the Habitation facilities in a city to fit more population. This is a habitation boost applied to a city, not to a specific Habitation facility. It is not a boost per minute, even though that is incorrectly indicated in the Local Culture tab of the city the event happened in. The amount that is added is dependent on what what habitations have in the city, the higher the habitation capacity the more the event will add. Thanks to this event can have cities on an uninhabitable world without even having any habitation facilities.

The governors Gwynn Badejo, Pim Jansson, Te Hau Arataki and Rex Jansson have effects that increase the amount of population that can fit within the Habitaton facilties in the city esigned to.

Habitation facilities can be built in cities or on Natural Satellites (moons). Habitations on moons do not have effects because they have a separate atmosphere, heat, water etc.

## Population Growth Facilities

Build facilities that increase population such as the Children's Creche, the Transit Network, the Spaceport and the Coral Reef to get more people to live in the Habitation facilities. How much population increase such facilities provide is influenced by the world's culture.

The UNSA starts off with a 30% cultural bonus to population growth, which changes how many people the Children's Creche, Transit Network and Spaceport add to the city per minute, and on top of that, they get the Population Boom event to further increase population.

Horizon Corporation starts off with a -15% decrease in population growth, so their spaceports don't add as many people.

The governors Dae-Hyun Yu, Ayzia Aoyama, Johanna Longhair, David Munoz and Buzz Sullivan have effects that increase the population growth facilities such as the Spaceport or Children's Creche provide in the city they are assigned to. This effect does not affect population growth earned through events such as Population Boom, or population growth earned through the Space Elevator.

Facilities that increase population can be built in cities and on Natural Satellites (moons).

## Birthrate

Buildings that increase the population are great to kick things off, but in late game, with populations large enough, native birthrates will overshadow any population increase buildings could possibly grant. Native birthrate is 0.05% of the city's population per minute(At a netural government culture.) For example, if a city has 1,000,000 population, native birthrate will be 600 per minute (but if it's boosted with transmissions, that obviously doubles).

The governors Yvonne Genet, Anyu Peratrovich, Etta Thitapura and Buzz Sullivan have effects that increase the birthrate of the city they are assigned to. This effect does not affect population growth earned through facilities such as the Children's Creche, as that is not considered under native birthrate.

Earth has an enormous birthrate right from the start (250/min, 15,000/hour, 360,000/day). That's where can go experience what that's like.

## Biomass Consumption

People living outside of habitations will consume biomass, while people living inside habitations will not. Keep an eye on that, because extremely large populations might eat all the biomass there is on the planet if left alone for too long, and this will cause mass die-offs. This is not a problem when play with biospheres, as in that mode population does not consume plants.

If have an extremely large population, native birthrates will go through the roof, and will not be able to sustain that long term no matter how many Coral Reefs built. This is why all worlds will eventually need the Sky Farm satellite, which is capable of sustaining an infinitely large population. Sky farms have plants in them and the plants/water requirements are restricted. At a certain point, numbers will stop to be displayed and population will simply read "∞". This happens exactly at (2^128)\*1000.

The governors Raj Ahmad Shah, Justus Black, Sofia Ishtar Batma and Rebecca Freyja O'Rourke have effects that reduce the amount of biomass the people in the city they are assigned to consumes.

## Disappearing Population

When a city loses all its population, it also loses all its cultural traits ("Local Culture") and Culture Revenue, which accumulate through random events.

Flooding or melting the city will make the whole city disappear permanently, not just the population.

If the city has 0 population, even though it has habitation facilities, and don't know why, build a new habitation facility. It'll kickstart a new habitation in that city. This may fix a bug that killed population, or it may just be a temporary solution as whatever killed the population in the first place will strike again.

When play with biospheres, some species will increase or decrease the population slightly if give them those traits. If playing a world that already had an established biosphere, check if any of the species of the planet harbors are poisonous and killing peoples.

The Plague Outbreak and Rising Crime Rates events can also kill/remove inhabitants.

Buildings under construction will continue to be built even if a city is abandoned with 0 population.

## Building Slots

The more population a city has, the more facilities can generally build in that city. There are some exceptions. See more details here:

*Main article: Building Slots*
## Culture Points

Reaching population milestones grants culture points. These can in certain circumstances be taken away again.

*Main article: Culture Point*

## Trivia

* It is possible to declare independence and achieve victory with zero population (impossible with UNSA due to their population requirement, and with Daughters of Gaia due to paradise habitability meaning people will live on the planet outside control), despite being a violation of common sense. it may need to have a population at some point to get culture points from events and population milestones, but once the points are spent, they are not taken back if disable Habitations (which causes all population to be lost on planets with barren or plantlife habitabilities).
* Due to how the game works. The game assumes a linear increase of population from all sources of population increase, including native birthrate, while not in game. Which is why will find population grows faster from birthrate when leaving the game open. Safest way to take advantage of this is idling in the city or stats screen in order to prevent events from wrecking the world. Reason why leaving the game open leads to faster population growth, is that the birthrate is constantly updated, leading to exponential growth.