What is the actual cause for population growth?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Damn you, kuciwalker!

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by rah
(but I never made it to doctor )

That's probably because you weren't a high school drop out.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Your avatar makes me want waffles. I love waffles, crispy outside, light and fluffy inside, dripping with butter and maple syrup.

[Kuciwalker]

You just noticed it?

[chequita guevara]

I noticed it before, but it just hit me all of a sudden.

[Kuciwalker]

[chequita guevara]

Almost as good as waffles are pancakes made from waffle batter.

[Kuciwalker]

[chequita guevara]

You bastard.

[Kuciwalker]

[civman2000]

Syrup
Waffles

[Kuciwalker]

Waffles sans syrup

[GePap]

On the population issue, if the question is how a game should handle it, the death rate is more important for the most part than the birth rate. Population should be growing constantly, but before sanitation and industriazation of agriculture, frequent crop failures and disease keep growth steady and slow. Then the deathrate drops, and population explodes. Then, as affluence grows and women become more educated, they chose to have less kids, and the fertility rate drops, eventually slowing non-immigration driven growth.

As for Ben's idea. The WOMAN decides on the number of kids, unless you are seeking an indentured wife.

Lets say you begin at 18 to impregnate the wife. It takes 9 months for the first kid to come, and if she breastfeeds, her own body makes it much more difficult to get pregnant again because it would make little biological sensefor a being that spends 9 months pregnant and must devote years to its offspring to keep having them (if you have two young babies at the same time, you sort of run out of hands...

Add to this that the more kids you have, the more likely a problem is- having a miscarriage, including one that may irreprably damage your ability to have more kids.

One of my uncles (religious conservative ala Ben) tried to have 7 kids. He got five, then the wife had two miscarriages, and there it ended.

[:) Smiley]

Now any guesses to what would happen when we can grow babies to full size in a machine?

[Ben Kenobi]

As for Ben's idea. The WOMAN decides on the number of kids, unless you are seeking an indentured wife.

Lets say you begin at 18 to impregnate the wife. It takes 9 months for the first kid to come, and if she breastfeeds, her own body makes it much more difficult to get pregnant again because it would make little biological sensefor a being that spends 9 months pregnant and must devote years to its offspring to keep having them (if you have two young babies at the same time, you sort of run out of hands...

Add to this that the more kids you have, the more likely a problem is- having a miscarriage, including one that may irreprably damage your ability to have more kids.

One of my uncles (religious conservative ala Ben) tried to have 7 kids. He got five, then the wife had two miscarriages, and there it ended.

Where did I say that the woman had no say? If the wife is willing to have that many kids, then it may work. It sure isn't going to work without a willing wife.

Secondly, trying for 7 kids and having 5 sure beats the heck out of trying for two and getting two.