Manufacture population is bugged. You can keep using it even if your Harmonized/Tinker population is maximum.
For example, suppose you have a planet with just about as many Tinkers as it can possibly have, and a non-harmonized population that's better at occupying the planet's habitats. For example your Tinker empire colonized the Thresher homeworld. Anyways, since the planet still has growth potential, it is possible to select Manufacture Population as an activity, even if no more Tinkers will be produced. However, it will eat up the metal stockpiles just fine despite not doing anything; and you won't have a notification about the activity not doing anything.
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function PlanetProperty.cant_manufacture_pop(planet)
if total_pop(planet) >= calc_pop_slots(planet,planet.empire)
return 'planet_full'
end
for race ; planet.pop?
if race_can_be_manufactured(race)
return
end
end
return 'no_synthetic_races'
end
So the logic is just to look at whether the planet is full (it's not) and then check if there's at least one manufacturable race. It should instead check for whether there's growth potential for any and all synthetic races present on the planet.
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function Planet.manufactured_pop_growth(planet)
if planet.activity~='Manufacture Population'
return
end
local manufacture_population_growth_rate,manufacture_population_metal_rate in planet
if FLAG.inside_pop_update
local used_metal = min(planet.empire?.metal or 0, manufacture_population_metal_rate)
manufacture_population_growth_rate *= used_metal / manufacture_population_metal_rate
if planet.empire
planet.empire.metal-=used_metal
end
end
local rval = {}
for race,n ; planet.pop?
if race_can_be_manufactured(race)
rval[race]=manufacture_population_growth_rate
end
end
local div = nkeys(rval)
for r,n ; rval
rval[r]/=div
end
return rval
end
Same logic issue: subtract metal first, then set up growth rate, but it's not taking into account actual growth rate. There's no checking for overcrowding or max reached.
Likewise, I don't see City Planning checking for synthetic populations. I'll have to test that with a save where I annex the Tinkers as a non-Tinker empire to check if I can set up City Planning on a 100% Tinker world... And if that increases food consumption despite Tinkers not eating food and not getting extra growth from the activity.
