Greetings Explorers, After reading your feedback and careful consideration we are making additional adjustments to population growth. Here is a high level overview of the changes in today's update:

• We've slightly increased food requirements for population growth in general and we doubled them when the colony is about to become full (to compensate for all the food/pop. growth structures on a mature colony)
• We've balanced the production cost for the tier one structures to make the choice between them more balanced and meaningful
• We added the Colony Base (+1 Food only) as a tech application on the second tier (Deep Space Exploration)
• We slightly improved food output for Class A and Class B planets

Master of Orion - Patch Notes 45.6

• +1 Food added to Colony Base
• Colony Base is now a 2nd tier tech
• Colony Ship now carries 2 Food units by default (Starting Food Suply set to 2)
• Fungal Farms moved to Biotechnology
• Population Growth min and max values re-balanced
• Automated Factory, Hydroponic Farm, Research Lab and Biospheres production cost modified
• Food multiplier factor increased for Ocean, Terran, Gaia and Uber biomes
• Implemented asymmetric colony growth formula
• Tweak for population growth values
• Terran racial biases modified (AI-related change)

• Refresh food output calculation on new colonies after their starting structures have been deployed
• [CombatScreen] Victory Chance now uses the same (new) formula for both Defending and Attacking (before it was using the old formula if you were the defender)