New Food Question and Post

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Im starting a new food and population post because the other one got waaay off course and is incorrect. One of the users stated that there was a formula used to determine the max size a planet can hold population wise. This formula is wrong, and no longer applies to the current version of the game. For example Earth currently in my game is a class 12 planet It is currently maxed out in population at 22.10b but my food output is 58mt/week so by the forumla of Limit = 20 * ((Q + 1) ^ 3) this would equal out to 43940b pop. Ok another example I have 2 Class 6 planets one can hold 14.6b the other 13b, both are maxed out because i have more than enough food to support the current population. However lets look at that formula again. 6860b Is the population i came up with this time for a class 6 planet. Clearly there is no formula that currently works could someone please tell me how i know when my population is capped on a planet, PLEASE!!!!
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Did you move the population onto those colonies, or did you grow it to that size? And are those the base PQ, or updated due to improvements? I've never been able to grow a PQ 6 colony that high, but as long as you can feed them, the population will not shrink just because of the colony PQ. Also, how's your morale on Earth in that game?

The formula is correct as I've seen it, the one thing wrong with your example is that the results are in millions, not billions, so the pop limit for a PQ 12 planet should be 43.94B, not 43940B.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I've only seen my populations get into the mid 20's regardless of world size and food supply. I'm wondering if it's worth trying to go any higher.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Ya 43b sorry that was a typo. Either way it wont grow to that size... I havent Tried to move colonist to the planet yet but ill try that. Currently it got that high do to growth and the 2 6 class planets use to be 4s and the 12 use to be a 11. Earth actually.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
It's more of an issue of a wrong letter. Change the letter on the food production ability from M to B and it works out.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
The formula does *not* work, I'm pretty sure about it. For example, nn my last game, on Mars (PQ4) I got 2.7b pop, according to the formula it should only be 2.5b.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
The formula (which I posted) is correct, but it isn't a hard limit.  If a planet's population overshoots that limit, it will not be brought back down to the limit, but it won't grow beyond that point, either.  Therefore, Mars' population is limited to 2.5 billion, but getting to 2.7 billion isn't impossible because the game adds population before checking the limit.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Also, it's worth noting that there are other factors (such as morale) that will further limit your population.  The formula I supplied is the theoretical maximum and doesn't mean you'll always get to that limit simply by having enough food production to sustain that limit.