I was googling for references to the game this morning, and I finally came across this thread. 44 pages of messages!
From one game creator to the other: Welcome to our forums, hope you like it. I hope your surprise was a pleasant one. You've written a game I've wanted to write for quite some time, and much better than I would've. It's quite fun to play, and if the BM players can help you out in any way, I'm sure everyone here would be happy to do so.
Increasing the number of people per arc would probably be really helpful (I'm happy with the number of arcs you can produce in a turn), that would speed up the population curve quite a bit. Maybe up it to... 2000 people?
Definitely. I have a couple colonies that are in the 30s in civilization, but in the low five digits in population, because I started them with 1-3 arcs and never boosted them.
