1. When you do planetary events a lot of them aren't really for Yor like population growth penalty.

2, The power matrix use to rock because it was like duranthium when specializing. Then they scaled it down into uselessness unless your not specializing. This is why a factory, lab, or market gives adjacency bonuses both ways. A power matrix only gives adjacency bonus to a factory, or whatever, but doesn't receive. Effectively making weaker than even factories when specializing. I seem not to use it; because, everything else has better adjacency bonuses. Because of two way bonuses, but the power matrix only gives bonuses. But doesn't receive. It either needs a bigger adjacency bonus, or it needs to receive adjacency bonuses not just gives them. Or it is uselessness unless you don't use adjacency bonuses for specialization.

You could do one of three things to make it worth having unless you put on a island until you terraform.

a. increase the adjacency bonus two 2. Which then the other two production bonuses become worth it' because, you break even with bonuses.

b. Have it where the matrix can receive bonuses not just gie them; even duranthium can do this.

c. Instead of a manufacturing bonus give it a raw production bonus. It would have to be enough to make up for the lack of adjacency bonuses.

3. I mean if the optimum population is 10 then there is no advantage to increasing population.

4. Why do we increase population if it is not worth having more than 10.

6. Not sure what to make of this is the game now starts in a small window, and goes to fullscreen.