Hey All!

Just wondering what effect increasing the population on your planet has???

Any help with this appreciated

cheers!

Your population is basically the hit points of your planet. So the higher the population the more difficult it is to take when combined with good defense and attack buildings.

Population has 2 effects...

(1) It delays any attacking player from reaching the invasion point. Can't invade till the population is 10 or less, so more people means it takes longer to get there.
(2) Standard researched population structures are susceptible to Zolazin Saboteurs and Crimson Cluster Missiles. If a population building is destroyed instead of a defense or attack structure, the total invasion defense doesn't change. This basically wastes that missile or ability.

aye, so 1-space habitation modules (almost no pop) are a great anti-sab method, since it's the most space efficient method at lowering chance of something more useful being destroyed (and that's about it's only good use there, since again it gives almost no pop)

Cheers guys!! you learn something new everyday!!! lol!
Thanks for the help

On a related note, I would like to ask, is planet population growth rate (the speed at which it "recharges" after being hit) a constant or affected by some other factor?

constant.. i believe it is 1 per minute

but you get 3 cloning pods each time you pull cloning pods from your arti points... and cloning pods instantly refills pop to max, regardless of whether that max is 100 or 10000 pop