4k labs 84 cs and 342 tpt... Wtf?

population?

you know all production incl. teching is tied to pop?

No, I had no idea thank you for clearing that up... But then why doesn't your tpt increase as you research residential tech?

cause your pop ain't anywhere near max.

as a restart it takes ~120 turns to get back to normal production.

So its based on 100% population not the 180% you would get from teching? I'm talking a regular non restart country.

maybe this helps:

#3) Production based on Population

In an effort to make crippling and failed KR's less pointless, we have made production of indies/farms/labs/rigs based on population.

Basically production of each (&TPT) is multiplied by:

min(1,max(0.2,pop/(maxpop*0.8))

This means once you drop below 16% of population, your production will hit a floor of 20%; production does not get affected until you are below 80% of max population. Given cashers are already linearly affected from 100% -> 0%, this is not applied vs Ent/Res.

Raise your tax rate & sell your res tech if you want to recover your tpt faster. These two steps will lower your max population variable.

Once you reach 80% max population you can slowly adjust your tax rate back to normal levels.

you shouldn't be teching res when you have population problem.