Labor market / Population Control

Upvoted.

Also interesting for Horatio when you don't have enough pop to splice the wanted gene, or you can even splice pop from a faction you haven't met.

Also selling pops, even at a low cost, will help to maintain the utility of Food, which drops drastically in the lategame. Great idea, upvoted.

upvoted. 

How about also updating galactic population migration, to provide some additional justification to the system? Essentially, neighboring empires at peace will allow some level of im/emigration between their borders, and systems with higher yields, especially dust, approval and influence will attract populations from less attractive neighbor systems. (I think that this already happens, but it is so slow... if it is a game feature, then I'd recommend increasing the effect). 

You could also facilitate this process through the marketplace by spending dust to 'incentivize' immigration, forcefully triggering a population transfer; and you can place specific populations under your control 'on the marketplace' by funding their emigration to some other empire, making the dust cost of 'purchasing' them less expensive for other empires.

Was talking about this as a new idea on Discord a few days ago, now that I know it was already submitted I'm hoping the idea can at least be revisited. It's certainly be a good way to get rid of population while improving both Riftborn and Horatio factions (getting rid of unwanted populations to make room for Riftborn and allowing you to obtain minors without forcing you to demand them from other factions in the rudest way possible respectively) 

As an extension of this idea, we could do this from the Spaceport by adding an additional option to sell them to the marketplace at the bottom of the list.

I'm in favor of exploring this idea.  It seems like a natural extension of starport functionality and political maneuvering.  We could even have population migration added to the diplomatic deals menu.  "4 units of Lumeris for 100 titanium!"  Or whatever silliness the AI might agree to.  It would give all factions a great option for diversifying or purifying their empire and could even be used in a manner to "ransom" units of population back after conquering or pacifying a system!

"I've spliced your twenty Unfallen, but I don't want the rest.  I might just chain gang 'em, but...what're they worth to ya?"

Daynen wrote:

I'm in favor of exploring this idea.  It seems like a natural extension of starport functionality and political maneuvering.  We could even have population migration added to the diplomatic deals menu.  "4 units of Lumeris for 100 titanium!"  Or whatever silliness the AI might agree to.  It would give all factions a great option for diversifying or purifying their empire and could even be used in a manner to "ransom" units of population back after conquering or pacifying a system!

"I've spliced your twenty Unfallen, but I don't want the rest.  I might just chain gang 'em, but...what're they worth to ya?"

The AI can't put in proper order the different pops it's got (obvious through the automation policy), how do you expect it to make a proper choice what pops to trade? The only ones that will gain from such a mechanic are the human players, and as we know, the human player is pretty OP already :)