Population Growth Rate Question

[Miwi]

Does anybody know for what period of time the population growth rate of a city / colony is calculated ?
For me it seems that the projected growth rate is calculated for a period of 10 years, e.g. if your colony (or a city, doesn't matter)has 100 people and a growth rate of 10%, after one year you will have a population of 101 people and after 10 years you will have 110 people.
Before the 1.05 patch I remember my colonies were growing very much faster than it is now, I got the 10% in one year and not in 10.
I don't know now, if this was intentionally changed with the 1.05 patch or whether it is a new bug. At least now the growth rates are predictable and correctly counted for both cities and colonies, but on the other hand the growth rate of your colonies are significantly slowed down, means without pushing a colony with colonists it will practically never become a city. What do you think ?

 

[Hartmann]

I´m interested in info about this, too.

-To which time span (1/10/100 years) does the growth rate refer?
-What are the underlying mechanics determining growth rate? Under wich circumstances does it eventually change?

Hartmann

 

[Miwi]

well the underlaying mechanics are pretty clear I thought. Go into information of a colony / city and move your mouse over 'Bevölkerung' and there you find Stability, Geography, Manufactory and a few more items I can't remember at the moment, anyway, behind each item you find a +/- value and after adding them all together the result is you actual growth rate at the moment. However, during a 10 year time span this can vary through various influences like war for example (decrease in stability) and other events.
You can try this by yourself, make a note of the population of a colony, wait one year without doing anything and look again. You will see that the population has changed by about 1/10 of the projected growth rate, that means after 10 years you will reach the predicted growth rate (= 10/10).
So AT THE MOMENT with patch 1.05b the time span is definitely 10 years, the question is whether this was the intention in the change of population growth rate formula introduced with the 1.05 patch.

 

[Hartmann]

Thanx, Miwi. Sure sounds silly after all this time playing the game, but somehow it just didn´t occur to me to simply put the cursor over the 'Bevölkerung' entry in the province screen ...

Hartmann