okey i tested it. i changed the value to 100 then went into the game and played on easy. it makes a difference. i needed only one ET most of the time(until i used a memory editor to play with the variables) uhh also is there truly a population limit? i changed the pop to 20,000 and nothing bad happened other then losing from starvation.
"your people are eating each other commander"
edit: uhh... i think i messed up. the edits may have been on a different file. and i have no way of checking that now.i deleated the file and am on a different computer then the one that can test it. damn my stupidity to the depths of Hades.