Offensive colonizing, and a morale question.

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First off, i was wondering if anyone has tried the somewhat obvious, but insidious and AI exploiting strategy of colonizing PQ 1-4 planets and giving them to enemies they want to improve relations with while weakening at the same time... does this work? I've experimented a little... have yet to have an AI refuse my gift of a PQ 1 planet... if you did this consistently would it mess up their economy?

Also, i seem to have trouble maintaining my morale midway through the game when overpopulation starts to occur... It seems somewhat silly to me that the best way to help is to dump millions of people into a transport and just leave them sitting off planet, and i also tend not to notice the morale of my planets getting down until its doing some serious damage... any suggesstions would be appreciated.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
First off, i was wondering if anyone has tried the somewhat obvious, but insidious and AI exploiting strategy of colonizing PQ 1-4 planets and giving them to enemies they want to improve relations with while weakening at the same time... does this work? I've experimented a little... have yet to have an AI refuse my gift of a PQ 1 planet... if you did this consistently would it mess up their economy?
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That doesn't work anymore. The AI destroys such worthless colonies.

The only time it would keep or create a substandard colony is if it needs it as an outpost to reach behind enemy lines.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Cool...
Is there any way to keep population down aside from creating an unending supply of transports? It seems kinda ridiculous to me that china can create population control measures, but in the future we are limited to sticking them on transports and (unless were in a war) just blowing them up in space so you dont pay upkeep... i mean really...
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
There are lots of measures you can take to increase morale, which will allow you to support more people on the planet. Frogboy has a Morale thread that is sticky on the strategies forum if you want details.

But left to itsself, morale should gravitate to the 45-55 range, as population die off at lower morale levels and growth at higher levels should slowly bring it to steady state.

However, in my games, I boost PQ as much as I can, and let the pops grow for most of the game!