We should also take into account the numbers of ships that Igiss states that they are fighting. I find them extremely low compared to planet populations.
If we're gonna be that goddamn picky, comparing station sizes and planets in game I'm pretty sure it's not very unrealistic at all to assume that these planets, which likely have a diameter of less than a thousand kilometers, have total populations of 220 million.
Yes, I know that planet sizes are unrealistic however once again, freelancer will never be 'realistic'.
Of course, if the community can somehow come up with 'realistic' numbers to shove onto every planet (time which would be better off spent fixing and creating something a bit more useful imo) then go for it I say.
Or we could just accept that the planet has 220 million after all, as apparently, the original makers intended it to be.
Ah yes the original makers...they intended many things, planned even more, screwed up much more and then released it...
Back to topic...I think the population of Manhattan should be around 20-25 billion. Just look at Earth now...nearly 7 billion people on it, and we are not even a proper space-faring race. Sure Sirians had only 800 years to populate the Sector, but they were far more superior to us in terms of technology and etc. And if we apply the population increase we have in the recent 2 centuries it is nothing extraordinary if Manhattan will have 15 or 20 + billion population in 819 A.S.
' Wrote:But not everyone lives in metropolises, there are towns, villages etc...220million/capital planet is just unrealistic.
Err, I don't understand. Is it unrealistic because it is too small... or too big? Also, I would say on Manhattan everybody lives in metropolises, considering the fact that they didn't evolve from an agrarian society but rather were settled in planned cities from the very start. Traditional laws that govern human settlement locations and numbers don't really apply when you basically consider a whole planet being under one government which has undisputed power from the very start.
EDIT: Remember that sleeper ships had 50,000 people on board... so where would 25 billion come from statistically? Five hundred children per family for 800 years?
Anyway, the numbers posted on the wiki are NOT discovery lore. And I am pretty sure they never will be, hence they were removed from the planet pages. Those that weren't listed in infocards anyway. Population numbers are best left ambiguous.
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