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Post by malika on Nov 9, 2004 13:38:11 GMT -5
Ok..this might sound stupid and might have been answered in the past, but I've tried to use the Heaven and Earth program...and all the worlds I generate seem to have very low populations...only being a couple of millions. I mean current Earth has about 6 billion people, not a mere couple of million. What's up with that?
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Post by CELS on Nov 9, 2004 15:53:50 GMT -5
Heaven & Earth is based on the Traveller universe, which is not set 40,000 years in the future and which does not have the same percentage of hiveworlds as Warhammer 40,000 (if at all). So, in the traveller universe, it might be more common with small colonies for an expanding human civilisation, whereas the Imperium is an old empire with ancient worlds that have allowed the population to grow.
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Post by Dazo on Nov 9, 2004 16:22:56 GMT -5
Also don't forget that population is up to the world builder, if you think there should be more people add more people. What you should be asking is why there are so many small low grav worlds with thick atmospheres, now thats a puzzler  |
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Post by malika on Nov 9, 2004 16:31:51 GMT -5
Well...Im the most unscientific/physics/chemistry person there is...so I dont question these things  |
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Post by Destecado on Nov 9, 2004 17:01:38 GMT -5
Since I don't have the Heaven and Earth program, I can't really discuss the vagaries of the program. I may be able to offer an answer from a scientific standpoint.
Homo Sapiens while highly adaptable still require certain parameters in order to flourish. When evaluating the population density it is important to compare the system and plaent to earth standard.
1. What type of star does the planet orbit?
2. What type of enviroment does it have?
3. What is the technological level of the population?
4. How far off from earth standard (1 g) is the planet's gravity?
These as well as a multitude of other factors can impact on a population. While it is true that humans will adapt over time, the rate of adaptation may differ from planet to planet and from variable to variable. Adaptation is also a very slow process.
An example of this is our adaptation to drinkng milk. Milk was not always a staple of the human diet (at least not in some cultures). Even with changes that have occured in our diet over the past several hundred years, there is still a significant portion of the population that is lactose intolerant.
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Post by Kage2020 on Nov 28, 2004 16:07:05 GMT -5
The general assumption of most sci-fi worlds is that the more 'important' the world the higher the population. By 'natural' assumption, the more Earth-like the world and the more resources it has, the more important it is. They also assume a reasonable amount of self-sufficiency since even in the most 'suspension of disbelief' universes in which trade is incredibly common between worlds, assuming the same levels of technological development it is always going to be cheaper to 'import' something from the same world (as it were; i.e. produce locally).
GW kind of breaks this with the whole hiveworld concept...
Oh yes. Forgot one assumption. The longer the history, the greater the population if one ignores natural and other types of disasters.
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