Why is my pop growth so damn slow?

[Alxndr]

https://i.imgur.com/CjAGp5M.png

It's like this on every planet I have. It's literally taking 2 or 3 years to grow 1 pop. I have so many empty building slots and districts but there's no point building them if I have no pops to man them.

Is there some fundamental mechanic I'm missing? Something I can change or increase that will significantly improve the growth rate?

[Seaghauwn]

you can set logistic growth ceiling in the start game settings to get higher pop growth the more pops you have but, that looks like a normal growth speed for that amount of pops, try getting migration pacts with other empires im pretty sure that could also increase pop growth aswell other than that, its basically a waiting game.

Play a hivemind or xenophobe with overtuned if you want fast pop growth.

[Cerodil]

There are techs, traditions and building jobs that can increase pop growth. Other than that getting more habitability on planets helps growth as well. Do note that having more pops slows down the growth of the next pop but having large pop planets increases immigration on smaller pop planets helping them grow.

There is a setting you can change before you start a game but I don't recommend messing with it as having too many pops too quickly can overwhelm you easily and will cause tons of extra lag in the late game.

[HyperKnight]

Get robots and migrants.

[CrUsHeR]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3274158157

[HyperKnight]

Setting Growth Required Scaling to 0 also helps.

[Lasagna]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

https://i.imgur.com/CjAGp5M.png

It's like this on every planet I have. It's literally taking 2 or 3 years to grow 1 pop. I have so many empty building slots and districts but there's no point building them if I have no pops to man them.

Is there some fundamental mechanic I'm missing? Something I can change or increase that will significantly improve the growth rate?

This looks normal to me.

you have a net +20% growth from your modifiers and you need 121 growth (about 121% over the base of 100) due to the total number of pops in your empire, meaning you're roughly evened out and growing at the default pace.

pop growth is supposed to be kinda slow, do not overbuild your buildings because they cost you maintenance and give you nothing if the jobs aren't filled.

if you want more pops you need to stack more sources of pop growth, and/or make use of your pop assembly slot to get a 2nd source of pops, you can do that by building robot assembly plants or taking bio ascension and clone labs.

More planets is also a good way to get more growth because it is more pops growing in parallel.

Some people are suggesting that you turn up logistic pop growth and turn off pop growth required scaling, I don't particularly recommend this as having tons of pops (including in all the AI empires) will cause tons of lag in the late game as the other empires constantly shuffle them around to get rid of unemployment.