How many people do you think a pop represents?

[HollowKing]

I was thinking one pop represented 100 million people so then a planet with about 70 pops would be as populated as earth.

[cooltv27]

this discussion has been had so many times that its basically a meme. in short: no one can agree on what it means and it probably differs between species even.

[Lonewolf]

Originally posted by cyberwaffle:

I was thinking one pop represented 100 million people so then a planet with about 70 pops would be as populated as earth.

i wish they did some sort of number of population in a chart somewhere

[AwesomeWolfgang]

Originally posted by cooltv27:

this discussion has been had so many times that its basically a meme. in short: no one can agree on what it means and it probably differs between species even.

Would make sense. I think a species with high longevity would probably also have smaller total numbers of people inhabiting their habitats, just for the sake of balance. Natural balancing and stuff like that. They'd either be fertile only during their rather young stage of life and get sterile later on, or stay fertile but be much less fertile then species with the life expectancy of humans or even less then humans. So I guess a pop is just there so you have "anything at all" without really telling you how big of a number "one pop unit" is. Just make your own headcanon. In my game human pops are about 170million people per unit because it doesn't make sense to me that you start with less people in total than we have today, considering the starting year is centuries from now and our numbers would most likely grow, not diminish but at the same time Earth can only maintain so many people. Just make it up yourself and come up with a cool idea, that's where the games fun is, really. You are the master of your own story.

[cooltv27]

all we know is that one pop is "enough people to be productive", which isnt very helpful because we also dont know how much 1 mineral or 1 alloy is. we know that 1 food is enough to feed 1 pop, which honestly doesnt tell us much either.

then theres how physically large individuals are, which is probably the largest factor

[Muggins]

1 Pop is equal to ONE MILLION DOLLARS !

[CaptainSpacetime]

1 pop = 1 person. This makes sense because everyone is very very tall.

[Fartikus]

two fiddy

[Tericc]

I just invaded late industrial Earth (or sol III) Haveing one of their world wars. Had roughly 24 pops.
Earth durring 1913 and 1920, from 1.791 billion to 1.86 billion.
2.3 billion in 1940
In 1945 it be safe to say population was between 2.3 to 2.4 billion
Every 10 pops probably equal to 1 billion Humans or 1 pop = to 100m human pops

Notice i said human pop. This may be challenged by by any Xeno race

[HollowKing]

Originally posted by Tericc:

I just invaded late industrial Earth (or sol III) Haveing one of their world wars. Had roughly 24 pops.
Earth durring 1913 and 1920, from 1.791 billion to 1.86 billion.
2.3 billion in 1940
In 1945 it be safe to say population was between 2.3 to 2.4 billion
Every 10 pops probably equal to 1 billion Humans or 1 pop = to 100m human pops

Notice i said human pop. This may be challenged by by any Xeno race

I wonder how this compares to that one precursor civilization that was called the Yuti I think that were a bunch of giants

[Breadsmith]

42

[Wokelander]

It's not really relevant in the game and the design doesn't allow you to calculate it in meaningful way. It's an abstraction, think of it like a boardgame worker token

[Leto]

7

[Forblaze]

Earth is pretty sparse. Our population could multiply several times over and still fit people. If we're clearing out mountains to develop the land underneath, we're definitely not concerned about maintaining nature. I think a "full" planet would have roughly the population density of india, it would just "feel" less crowded because of advances to architecture. So a pop would be at least a billion people, if not more.

[Dragonixor]

A pop is 1 person.
It's just that the planets are very small.
Else, how you think that a building that creates 1 scientist job for one pop can give that job to more than one person?

[cooltv27]

Originally posted by Dragonixor:

A pop is 1 person.
It's just that the planets are very small.
Else, how you think that a building that creates 1 scientist job for one pop can give that job to more than one person?

one pop is half of a person, that way resource districts give jobs to 1 person in total.