I need pops, how do I get them fast?

[[OCe]Kagari]

It's the year 2370. Im an egalitarian fanatic materialist, I have like tons of jobs vacant in my planets and habitats, mostly research and soldier jobs, I have only 15k research and my neighbors are still superior in terms of research, their fleet are either superior or overwhelming so I have no chance if I declared war, some are inferior to me but they got vassalized by stronger empires already, I've build and maxed all gene clinics and robot assembly building in all my planets, resettled pops every once in a while too, what should I do to get more of em?

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Make a vassal, let him grow up a little, then reintegrate him.

[[OCe]Kagari]

Originally posted by Static-ghost:

Make a vassal, let him grow up a little, then reintegrate him.

do you mean asking for some weaker empire to become my vassal? or turning one of my planet to be a vassal? if its the latter, what exactly does it do? they grow faster or something?

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Originally posted by OCeKagari:

do you mean asking for some weaker empire to become my vassal? or turning one of my planet to be a vassal? if its the latter, what exactly does it do? they grow faster or something?

Yes, create a vassal empire from any of your sectors, let it expand and colonize planets automatically for you, while you can take care of another part of the galaxy.

[[OCe]Kagari]

Originally posted by Static-ghost:

Yes, create a vassal empire from any of your sectors, let it expand and colonize planets automatically for you, while you can take care of another part of the galaxy.

uh, all planets and systems are colonized by now :/

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Originally posted by OCeKagari:

Originally posted by Static-ghost:

Yes, create a vassal empire from any of your sectors, let it expand and colonize planets automatically for you, while you can take care of another part of the galaxy.

uh, all planets and systems are colonized by now :/

In this case, you can try playing tall or restart the game. Most likely you need to reconsider the civics and traits you have chosen for your empire and leaders. Those that increase the growth of science points and population work best. You can search for the latest popular builds.

[Ryika]

Releasing Vassals is more of a gimmick than a real way to get significant amounts of Pops. If you want pops fast, conquer them, abduct them, buy them on the Slave Market, or gain them indirectly by turning other empires into vassals that you force to pay taxes to you.

Not really sure that's the actual problem you're having though. Not filling all planets in a large empire is normal with default growth settings. At some point, trying to grow internally becomes largely pointless due to the increasing cost of doing so. If you want efficiency, it's probably a good idea to start removing robot plants and gene clinics, and moving pops into jobs that improve your economy now instead of in 500 years when they're finally done growing a pop for you. Hyperspecialize every world for maximum efficiency, centralize your population on your best worlds, etc.

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

Originally posted by Ryika:

Releasing Vassals is more of a gimmick than a real way to get significant amounts of Pops

This works in the long term, if for some reason you want to avoid wars with your neighbors or slavery is prohibited in your empire. As we know in the current version of the game pop growth is capped by increasing the cost to produce pops based on how many pops you have at the moment. The larger the population in your empire, the more penalty to the pop growth rate you will receive. Temporarily removing inhabited planets from your empire by vassaling their sector reduces the overall population of your empire, and if the sectors you vassalize are low populated, it gives those new colonies starting bonus to growth from their extremely low total population. You can also build any supporting infrastructure on the planet that will become the capital of your future subordinate, such as gene clinics, robot factories or clone vats and urban areas to accelerate development of the colony even more. Your core worlds may be stagnant, but these frontier sectors could grow quickly.

[Ryika]

Great meme.

[Unimportant]

Why did you create that many jobs when you didn't even have enough pops?

[[OCe]Kagari]

Originally posted by Unimportant:

Why did you create that many jobs when you didn't even have enough pops?

well what should i rather do then, i had too many minerals

[[OCe]Kagari]

By the way, are clerk jobs still the least useful job? If so is it a good idea to move clerks to other worlds that have better jobs instead?

[Ryika]

Originally posted by OCeKagari:

Originally posted by Unimportant:

Why did you create that many jobs when you didn't even have enough pops?

well what should i rather do then, i had too many minerals

Produce fewer minerals and more advanced resources to push your research and alloy production up.

And yes, ignore clerks if you're not focusing on research.

[felmari]

Originally posted by OCeKagari:

By the way, are clerk jobs still the least useful job? If so is it a good idea to move clerks to other worlds that have better jobs instead?

Probably better to remove some clerk jobs and just produce for housing and when you need amenities. You can do that for individual job on the job page right next to each job there are + -.

I would say they are not to useful and can get to where you have to many clerk jobs and way to much amenities. Their Trade production I guess could be argued but they do not make much per pop and it mostly just produces energy. There are definitely better ways to use your population.

[Chthonic Guardian]

You could also start a war and use orbital abduction.

[Meewec]

if you have access to the galactic market you can always buy any available slaves