Population growth after patch

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Atfer applying the Patch 1.0x I've noticed that the population growth rate has changed in my games.
Given enough food and high approval it is now +125 for Homeworld and +100 for Colony each week.
I'm somewhat puzzled, as i read nowhere about this change. (nevertheless i like the change)

Could this info be confirmed or are there other new factors in population growth (or is my game messed up)?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It seems like they fixed the growth rate. I noticed this too - now, the rate of growth appears to be a percentage of the colony's current population (like it should be - instead of a flat 200 million a week). No, I don't think your game is messed up and I'm actually really happy that this got fixed!
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No they didn't fix it. They' seem to have just lowered the value. In my game it's not a percentage, It's a fix value 100 /125 (homeworld).

Would be nice to now about such gameplay changes, so we don't have to wonder and can just play the game
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Seems like a percentage - I tried starting a new game and colonizing Mars right away. Yeah, Earth was growing at 125 million/week, but Mars was only getting like 40 million/week. So, it doesn't *seem* like it's still a fixed value.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
if the colony is very small that growth number is always lower, like it was already the case in pre 1.0x.
But after the Colony has grown it sticks at 100 or 125 if it's the homeworld.
Would be nice if a dev could clear this.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have 4-5 planets with pops like 573 million or similarly un-round numbers, so my bet is on percentage
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I once cheated and ended up with colony ships with 0 colonists on board, after colonizing a planet it took a few turns to get to 0.01 billion, but after that it got a fixed value, like mentioned above.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm confused by population growth too. From what I can work out:

1) if the planet has less than 1,000 m people, it grows at some variable amount, possiblly a percentage.

2) Over a billion it seems to grow at 100m for mid-range approval ratings

3) For a larger planet it was growthing at 250 m but I can't remember the approval ratings.

I'd also like to know if the approval rating growth bands are the same after the last patch.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have played as torians and can say that as horgel2 noticed population was growing at 0,125 billion per turn in my homeworld, i noticed also that with moral at 100% population growth is doubled at 0,25 billion per turn.Anyway population growth bonus are not applied torians have 30%population growth bonus but it wasn't applied.
On a game as terran alliance my colonies grew at 0,1 billion people at month