One thing that would also be a nice inclusion is give bonuses if your admin cap is significantly above what it needs to be.

Update please, interferes with some new specialist jobs

That was copy/pasted directly from the mod description.

Cool, maybe it would be nice to mention it :D

"Coordinators and Synapse Drones increase in upkeep by 3% and 2% per job instance respectively."

So... What about gestalt empires, If im not wrong they use another job not bureucrats. So... It is applied to them ?

updated for 3.03, pop growth modifications removed as they are now available in the vanilla game.

The planetary capacity system has not been removed (anymore), the empire-wide increase to progress required per new pop has.

For some reason I'm looking at a habitat that is doing the base game thing cutting pop growth. Not sure if there is a hole in the system that keeps them there.

no problem, I make mods 50% for gameplay changes I want and 50% to learn scripting and game design concepts. Cant really do the latter well without constantly refining.

Thanks for the update! Works great now, much appreciated.

Went back in and changed the defines file according to your suggestions, PurpleMentat. Last time I did modding a few years ago I was told that defines was all-or-nothing, and had assumed that was still the case. The mod should be much more easily compatible with others now.

You have a couple issues with your mod that harm compatibility. You are overriding the entire base 00_defines.txt, twice. You can instead create a pop_defines.txt, and only include the variables you care about. The launcher will patch those in and allow other mods to also change the contents of that file. It's a 2100 line file with 1500+ variables, including graphic, camera, and interface settings, so it's a major issue.

For anyone using this mod, if you keep this at the very top of the load order any other mods attempting to change 00_defines.txt should work. However, I've noticed some things are sticky and hard to override, such as ethic points.

@black, be sure to load the pop growth rebalance mod before the XX building mod.
It works fine for me, having UI overhaul & 36 buildings slots + compatibility mods loaded at the very end.

Start a new game with all sliders at default: 600 stars split ten ways; about 60 stars each for a period of 800 years. The base pop growth rate of 3/100 per month (2.78 yr/pop) would fill a size 25 planet in 70 years.

Reaching full planets sooner rather than later is a player goal. Game engine faltering when presented with default scenario is a software design issue. So what must be decided is exactly how many populations in the galaxy is too many for the engine to handle.

It seems that this mod disables more building slot mods: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2465534550 Is there any way to make these mods work together?

Yeah, a capacity value was added to the defines in 3.02, and I neglected to change my modfiles until I realised my pops werent growing in a new playthrough. Should work now.

It was updated, and organic pop growth is back.
thanks for the update

There seems to be a bug with the current version where all planets will have a carrying capacity of 0. This makes organic pop growth impossible. If anyone has a fix for this please let me know.

update: planetary dynamic pop growth re-enabled, empire-wide assembly penalties disabled, planet overcrowding cap reverted to vanilla.

To answer some comments:
1. re: Synapse drones, they scale in upkeep at half the rate of Bureaucrats, do you think this is not enough? Hive minds also get -25% empire sprawl off the bat.
2. re: planetary pop growth, Ill look into re-enabling it, as this seems to be a heavily desired feature.
3. re: empire-wide assembly, woops! I'll get working on fixing that.
4. re: AI, they play by these rules too, though how much that matters depends on how many difficulty cheats they have.

I really like this idea. It makes a lot more sense than what was implemented for the most part, but I do like the planetary pop growth modifiers (from what I can tell, it's hard to figure out some of this without checking math while being so irked by the empire-wide debuff). Might I suggest leaving that from the PDX changes but making all of your others in a mod?
Thanks for this.

does not reduce empire-wide penalty for assembly (like clone vats)

I think hive mind needs a buff in this rebalance, their Bureaucrats, "Synapse Drone" consumes 2 power and 2 food for 5 Administrative Capacity. So twice the cost and half the output: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Jobs I've not looked into it very much so don't know exactly.

I'm just looking for a mod that makes these buggers breed faster. I'll give this mod a shot

changing for pop slowdown to higher upkeep pop cost, I'll try this and see if gives a more natural feel. Btw how does the AI play by these rules? Or aren't they effected?

I'm going to check this out. Cause the tall vs wide problem was really a issue in base. Though I wish if the pop system i like the idea of having a limit and having a system to improve it while also letting players change what percent of different races can grow in their empire.