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I think I'll keep the population around 50 or so instead of getting up to 65 so there'll be room for the GC.




Hmmm - my GC appeared when the population crossed 25. I am doing very slow population growth - all research was completed with population less than 20 - then some breeding started and then, lucky me, GC I've archived the save-game file just to have a fall-back.