This is usually essential, so that you afford the maintenance costs of increasingly advanced buildings. Money is usually a constraint in the early game, and growing your population fast increases your income fast. Once you get adequate pollution control, the construction figures work very like the research figures: adding a few more people increases your output significantly. So an Automated Factory plus 4 workers will produce 18-19 PP (production points) instead of 21, because 2-3 have to be spent on cleaning up pollution (unless your race is Tolerant then you get the full 21 PP). Looking at industrial production and the effects of an Automated Factory, the first industrial building in the tech tree, the figures for construction points work out in the same way, except for one thing - at this low tech level you have no pollution control technologies. Similarly more advanced research buildings produce a larger increase per scientist. For example if your scientists produce 5 RP each without any buildings (achievable in mid-game), the figures for Research Lab are: The difference is more dramatic if you have any kind of research bonus (racial or provided by some technologies). So a Research Lab plus 1 scientist will produce 9 RP, while for example a Research Lab plus 4 scientists will produce 21 RP and with 10 scientists it would produce 45 RP. Since your scientists were producing 3 RP each before you built the Research Lab, they are now producing 4 RP per scientist. Remember that you can only have one of each type of building per planet. Now suppose you build a Research Lab, the first research building in the tech tree. If your race and planet have no research bonus or penalty, that's 3 RP (research points) per scientist. In a pre-warp game you start with no research-boosting technologies, so the speed of your research directly depends on how many people you have working as scientists. Let's look at research first, as it's a little simpler. Games of MOO II are won by industrial capacity and technology. This guide has already said more than once, "Population is power." Now is a good time for an example of why that's true.
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