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[ThtblovesDF]

Manual Labor?

[Micro102]

More accurately, the crew are the workers.

Which does make me wonder why a ship-based terraformer needs like 50 people to operate or whatever, while a planet based terraformer (producing exactly 100% the same amount of terraforming) requires like 250,000 people or something.

You need to pay maintenance for it on a ship. i don't think you need to pay for maintenance for a land based one. Which would explain the huge amount of people needed to maintain it.

[MarcAFK]

There's also another problem which is that the population on a planet require a certain percentage for agricultural upkeep, it's like 5% per extra colony cost, so a cost 19 world needs 95% of it's population for agriculture leaving almost nothing left to run teh terraformers .
It's just as well you don't need to feed or upkeep the life support of your fleets/colonies since Aurora already requires more than enough micromanagement

[Mini]

Actually I believe a colony cost 19 world would have 100% of its population in agriculture, since a CC 0 one needs 5%.

[Micro102]

Are you sure it's an extra 5%, and not 5% of the base? Like 5% of 5%???

[forsaken1111]

More accurately, the crew are the workers.

Which does make me wonder why a ship-based terraformer needs like 50 people to operate or whatever, while a planet based terraformer (producing exactly 100% the same amount of terraforming) requires like 250,000 people or something.

You need to pay maintenance for it on a ship. i don't think you need to pay for maintenance for a land based one. Which would explain the huge amount of people needed to maintain it.

Also, ship-based terraformers are iirc massive and expensive.

[Dutchling]

More accurately, the crew are the workers.

Which does make me wonder why a ship-based terraformer needs like 50 people to operate or whatever, while a planet based terraformer (producing exactly 100% the same amount of terraforming) requires like 250,000 people or something.

You need to pay maintenance for it on a ship. i don't think you need to pay for maintenance for a land based one. Which would explain the huge amount of people needed to maintain it.

Also, ship-based terraformers are iirc massive and expensive.

I just checked, and ship based ones are 500bp and the installations were 600bp. While this still makes them massive and expansive, so are installations.

Are you sure it's an extra 5%, and not 5% of the base? Like 5% of 5%???

I just tested it:
Mercury has 17.4091 CC,
The A&E percentage was 92.1%, (5% + 17.4091 * 5% = 92.045)
Service % was 8.0% which brought to manufacturing % to 0.0.

[Flare]

There's also another problem which is that the population on a planet require a certain percentage for agricultural upkeep, it's like 5% per extra colony cost, so a cost 19 world needs 95% of it's population for agriculture leaving almost nothing left to run teh terraformers .
It's just as well you don't need to feed or upkeep the life support of your fleets/colonies since Aurora already requires more than enough micromanagement

How much are my people eating?! Unless I dropped them off at the colony with pre industrial age technology, I would think they would be able to do better for themselves than contributing 95% of their entire population just to support themselves.

[Sowelu]

God, I need to delete this game.  It's a memetic hazard of the highest order.

[Ehndras]

There's also another problem which is that the population on a planet require a certain percentage for agricultural upkeep, it's like 5% per extra colony cost, so a cost 19 world needs 95% of it's population for agriculture leaving almost nothing left to run teh terraformers .
It's just as well you don't need to feed or upkeep the life support of your fleets/colonies since Aurora already requires more than enough micromanagement

How much are my people eating?! Unless I dropped them off at the colony with pre industrial age technology, I would think they would be able to do better for themselves than contributing 95% of their entire population just to support themselves.

A cost 19 world is so volatile and uncolonizable that your people would have a hell of a time even getting plants to grow. The efficiency on such a high cost astro would make it ridiculously horrible.

Personally, I never colonize anything above 2.

[Hanzoku]

With a colony cost that high, the world is so corrosive, high/low pressure and otherwise harmful to exist in that it's all they can do to get their shelters from rupturing each and every day.

It leaves little time for doing anything else, honestly.

[forsaken1111]

There's also another problem which is that the population on a planet require a certain percentage for agricultural upkeep, it's like 5% per extra colony cost, so a cost 19 world needs 95% of it's population for agriculture leaving almost nothing left to run teh terraformers .
It's just as well you don't need to feed or upkeep the life support of your fleets/colonies since Aurora already requires more than enough micromanagement

How much are my people eating?! Unless I dropped them off at the colony with pre industrial age technology, I would think they would be able to do better for themselves than contributing 95% of their entire population just to support themselves.

A cost 19 world is so volatile and uncolonizable that your people would have a hell of a time even getting plants to grow. The efficiency on such a high cost astro would make it ridiculously horrible.

Personally, I never colonize anything above 2.

Its not just agriculture, it is all of the work required to sustain life. That means working the atmosphere processors, waste recyclers, etc. It is abstracted out into a % of your population which works full time to keep the whole population alive.

[Sowelu]

Two things I can't figure out how to do:

1. "Go to system".  There must be an easy way and I'm missing the button.  I can autoroute to any pop, but not to an unpopulated system.

2. Ignore specific interrupts.  I know my grav surveyor has 8% fuel left.  It'll hit earth before it runs out, TRUST ME.  I don't need the game to get in the way of my autoturns.  Can I say "Display these warnings but do not interrupt"?  Same for Martian unrest.  Trust me, I am building you that PDC.  I don't care how whiny you are, it won't get it done faster.

[SirAaronIII]

While on the topic of systems, I finally made the jump between Sol and another system. How can I switch the view between the two?

[Sowelu]

While on the topic of systems, I finally made the jump between Sol and another system. How can I switch the view between the two?

There's a dropdown on the left side of the system view.