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dcarson · 07-03-2012, 07:06 PM

I wouldn't expect a high growth rate. The richer you are the more a child costs. If you have nothing it is easy to give a dozen children what you have. If you are rich it is impossible. Giving them what you consider a reasonable upbringing is expensive. Women also tend to be not willing to have lots of children if they have a choice. The combination leads to low to negative growth rates. A frontier world would select for people who want to have larger families to some degree and TL10 allows exowombs and such to make having children less of a hassle. That gives you a moderate growth rate for the first few generations, dropping to close to 0 for the city dwellers I'd think.

07-03-2012, 07:06 PM	#12
dcarson Join Date: Mar 2008	Re: Colony World Frontiers I wouldn't expect a high growth rate. The richer you are the more a child costs. If you have nothing it is easy to give a dozen children what you have. If you are rich it is impossible. Giving them what you consider a reasonable upbringing is expensive. Women also tend to be not willing to have lots of children if they have a choice. The combination leads to low to negative growth rates. A frontier world would select for people who want to have larger families to some degree and TL10 allows exowombs and such to make having children less of a hassle. That gives you a moderate growth rate for the first few generations, dropping to close to 0 for the city dwellers I'd think.