(02-28-2014, 06:30 AM)Kazinsal Wrote: Assuming a 1% population growth (which is realistic for a developed nation, using the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada as examples of modern day developed-ness), and an initial population in 800 AS of 220 million, Manhattan would now have 258.1 million people.
It is a known fact that less developed areas tend to have higher population growth due to factors such as high infant mortality and high requirement for labourers. An explosion of people on Crete would be entirely possible, but highly dangerous.
660 million on crete makes little sense.
The Outcasts inRP have an extremely low birthrate.
They are at 470 million people.
And 1% gives us a total sirian population of
11,535,607,000.
Roughly.
I suppose that's reasonable. But it doesn't explain why about 8% of the population is on two pirate planets.
Edit:
(02-28-2014, 06:30 AM)Kazinsal Wrote: EDIT: Sources: Wikipedia: List of countries by population growth rates, vanilla infocards (which admittedly may not be scaled properly, but we'll use this as a test), equation N = (K N_0)/(N_0+(K-N_0) e^(-r t)) calculated through Wolfram Alpha.
Because the people who wrote a lot of these infocards have no idea of proper scaling, and correcting this rampant failure all across Discovery has been a slow process.
(02-28-2014, 06:40 AM)Thexare Wrote: Because the people who wrote a lot of these infocards have no idea of proper scaling, and correcting this rampant failure all across Discovery has been a slow process.
Kazinsal has stated that 660 million is a correct population for Crete
He also stated in the same post that 470 million for Planet Los Angeles (A planet that in lore failed it's terraforming process) and planet Malta (A planet covered in Cardamine that severely cuts birth rates) is right.
And I'll say then what I say now. Apply the same brush to everyone or no-one.
And the Aquilon suddenly became a Zoner capital ship from an IMG one at the will of Igiss, but that doesn't mean it made sense.
Sometimes infocards need to be fixed. Sometimes they don't.
A growth rate of 4.55% has been noted in one case in the modern world in one highly undeveloped country (85% of Liberia's population falls below the UN's definition of international poverty) where not slaughtering its own civilians is a new concept for the 21st century.
We are working a thousand years in the future.
I'd say "your move" but I have things that are actually productive to do instead of sitting here listening to you debate pointless statistics, bend my words, and fling attacks at people personally when you don't get your way.
Well I've got some news for you.
As it stands, zoner battleships will be changing to different classes and if you don't like that, toughen up and accept it, because it's happening, and it's not going to not happen. You can make your calm input on the lore changes that will be happening along with the rest of the zoner factions, but you cannot stop this.
(02-28-2014, 06:46 AM)Kazinsal Wrote: And the Aquilon suddenly became a Zoner capital ship from an IMG one at the will of Igiss, but that doesn't mean it made sense.
Sometimes infocards need to be fixed. Sometimes they don't.
A growth rate of 4.55% has been noted in one case in the modern world in one highly undeveloped country (85% of Liberia's population falls below the UN's definition of international poverty) where not slaughtering its own civilians is a new concept for the 21st century.
We are working a thousand years in the future.
I'd say "your move" but I have things that are actually productive to do instead of sitting here listening to you debate pointless statistics, bend my words, and fling attacks at people personally when you don't get your way.
Well I've got some news for you.
As it stands, zoner battleships will be changing to different classes and if you don't like that, toughen up and accept it, because it's happening, and it's not going to not happen. You can make your calm input on the lore changes that will be happening along with the rest of the zoner factions, but you cannot stop this.
So this is the final word of the Development team then?
There is nothing that can be done by any Zoner official faction member or unofficial to combat this?
No matter what RP will be destroyed this is happening come hell or high water?
(02-28-2014, 06:40 AM)Thexare Wrote: Because the people who wrote a lot of these infocards have no idea of proper scaling, and correcting this rampant failure all across Discovery has been a slow process.
Kazinsal has stated that 660 million is a correct population for Crete
He also stated in the same post that 470 million for Planet Los Angeles (A planet that in lore failed it's terraforming process) and planet Malta (A planet covered in Cardamine that severely cuts birth rates) is right.
The difference is, Liberty has more planets (and in total, more people). Given the choice, people will spread out. Deprived of that choice, though, they're still gonna bang.
(02-28-2014, 06:51 AM)Thexare Wrote: The difference is, Liberty has more planets (and in total, more people). Given the choice, people will spread out. Deprived of that choice, though, they're still gonna bang.
