Is population fixed yet?

[Lysserd]

I always enjoy playing a very long game with an enormous space empire, but I always run into the issue where the population just never stops rising and unemployment is inevitable. Even with the mod to automatically resettle pops, there's eventually just never enough space.

Is there any solution in-game for this yet? Maybe a mod I haven't heard of?

[Etheric]

I use the edict that lowers pop growth. Or I eat my people. People make good food.

[Lysserd]

I've tried that edict as well, but it just doesn't do enough. Hadn't thought of eating people, but that doesn't sound like my kind of playthrough anyway.

[bea.hirtes]

If you dindt find a suitable mod, do it yourself:

open policies, search:

food_policy = {
potential = {
OR = {
NOT = { has_ethic = ethic_gestalt_consciousness }
has_valid_civic = civic_machine_servitor
}
}

option = {
name = "food_policy_rationing"

modifier = {
planet_pops_organics_food_upkeep_mult = -0.25
planet_pops_organics_minerals_upkeep_mult = -0.25
pop_growth_speed = -0.1
biological_pop_happiness = -0.1
lithoid_pop_happiness = -0.1
}

AI_weight = {
factor = 0
}
}

and change the values..

[Elitewrecker PT]

There's really nothing you can do to completely stop growth, maybe going synthetic ascension and closing the roboticist jobs.
Other than that, the growth will eventually stagnate but with a lot of homeless and unemployed.

[Mansen]

Цитата допису Elitewrecker PT:

There's really nothing you can do to completely stop growth, maybe going synthetic ascension and closing the roboticist jobs.
Other than that, the growth will eventually stagnate but with a lot of homeless and unemployed.

Of course there is - There is literally a "stop growing" decision you can enact on any planet you wish.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Everyone execpt elegarians can stop pop growth per planet aslong they have the control population policy on.
Planet decisions
Declare population growth.

[Lysserd]

Last time I played that timed out and constantly re-enabling it was very annoying. Has that changed?

[Elitewrecker PT]

Цитата допису Mansen:

Цитата допису Elitewrecker PT:

There's really nothing you can do to completely stop growth, maybe going synthetic ascension and closing the roboticist jobs.
Other than that, the growth will eventually stagnate but with a lot of homeless and unemployed.

Of course there is - There is literally a "stop growing" decision you can enact on any planet you wish.

Is it full stop and not slow?

[bea.hirtes]

Цитата допису Elitewrecker PT:

Is it full stop and not slow?

Full stop on this Planet.

Anyway...there is allways a solution for your problem...

[Evilgenius]

Цитата допису Lysserd:

Last time I played that timed out and constantly re-enabling it was very annoying. Has that changed?

This was never a thing, to my knowledge. Unless you are egalitarian, you can completely stop growth forever, if you wish so.

Цитата допису Elitewrecker PT:

Цитата допису Mansen:

Of course there is - There is literally a "stop growing" decision you can enact on any planet you wish.

Is it full stop and not slow?

It is full stop of you aren't egalitarian. Otherwise it is a drastic slow.

[Isokon]

The planetary edict stops pop growth, but also kills any migration, which makes it undesirable unless you just use it when there is no more room in your empire left and have a mod auto-resettle.

I have been looking at this mod, but not really tested it yet:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1922397818

It looks like it might solve the issue without having to rely on planetary growth control + auto-resettle.

[Nightmyre]

So, not exactly what the OP has a problem with - but the biggest issue with stopping population growth is that the migration part of it used to be broken.

Putting the stop population growth decision is supposed to force the population growth into being emigration onto other planets instead. It actually did work properly - for the first month. You'd enact the decision, and a month later, you'd see an emigration push to all your other planets (and possibly planets for other empires, if you have migration treaties).

However, one month after that, all the emigration would disappear, and you'd simply lose the benefit of those pops growing.

If they fix that bug, it will make managing planets INFINITELY more simple. Once your planet is "done" you just stop population growth, suffer the minor stability debuff, and focus on your other planets.

[bea.hirtes]

There is still migration from other empires, even if you have no empty workspace left?

[Nightmyre]

Цитата допису walter.hirtes:

There is still migration from other empires, even if you have no empty workspace left?

I'm not sure what you're asking. I'm not referring to immigration, I'm referring to emigration. Basically, the planet used to send its growth to other planets when you turned population controls on. Now, it ... well, just doesn't.

[Nuggs]

you can just click on individual planets and enable the dicsision that will litterally stop pop growth on that planet. a bit annoying you have to go to each planet to do this but you can completely stop pop growth