What does World Class Mean? (Partly Solved)

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I have an idea that I think solves the question of what does World Class mean,  it is the maximum Population that you can have on that World, not the number of tiles available or potentially available.

To be more precise, it is the largest number that your population will grow to on that World normally. You can put more population there with Colony Transports and Troop ships, but you get additional penalties to Approval (and possibly to revolt risk, unrest, etc.) by doing so.

This could explain why the World Class never seems to change when we add additional usuable tiles by terraforming and other events, ideologies, etc.

I am not sure if techs or other things change the population limit for your Race, etc., if that affects the World Class, but I doubt it. I suspect that population limit is almost the same thing as World Class, but there is some difference in their actual meaning.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I think this is either a performance issue, or a bug.

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

What I see is that my small Colonies have the same population as their World Class, e.g. 2 on Class 2, 3 on Class 3, 4 on Class 4. So I think that at least in my Colonies which have no Districts and therefore no Housing Districts to change the population caps, World Class is closely tied to the amount of population you will have on them.

Now Core Worlds are different, there we have Housing Districts and my populations seem to be a lot smaller than the World Class, so there is more going on to affect your maximum population on Core Worlds. So I am not so sure just how World Class affects how much population you can have on Core Worlds, i.e. there are other factors affecting population as well.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Check four again it should only be three.