Re: Zero Zero Zero
 

If all the people on the planet die from a plague or some other event, you do not lose the facilities. The planet goes dormant like you are describing. Only if the population is killed in combat are the facilities also destroyed and the colony erased.

Re: Zero Zero Zero
 

Plagues, either event or bomb caused, definitely always reverts the planet to uncolonized when all population is dead. You get a message to the effect that "Population of planet has expired from the plague"

What leaves an empty planet with facilities intact is the food poisoning Intel option, and maybe some other events too, I don't know.

This is the second thread today about wierdness associated with altering the starting population setting up from zero, in order to speed things up. Gonna be cool when someone figures out what's happening, this is all to wierd for me to start experimenting.

[ June 08, 2004, 02:26: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Re: Zero Zero Zero
 

In a recent game I was playing, a bomb exploded on one of my planets (an intel attack) and killed all my population, but I still had the colony. Just zero population.

Re: Zero Zero Zero
 

This is all very odd.

I once again had an event-plaque and my planet was cleaned up completely. Is it possible "zero population and nothing else" happens in classic turn games ?

I am 100%, no 1000% ! sure plagues wipe out planets completely in simult. turn games

Re: Zero Zero Zero
 

I've just checked all the TDM AI's that played
against me (turn 150) and they all had similar
problems.

From a couple to a couple of dozen "never" in
the production menu. All had zero population.

I guess the only way to avoid plagues is to setup
your race to be immune to them at the start of the
game.

I'll try that next game and report back.

Re: Zero Zero Zero
 

Ok, maybe I mis-remembered about the plagues causing empty colonies... so perhaps it's the other events and intel strikes that remove population without removing the colony.

Those should all generate log Messages, though... but perhaps one of them doesn't?

PvK

Re: Zero Zero Zero
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm not sure about this. I remember losing all population on a planet, but the damage wasn't enough to destroy all the facilities, so the colony remained.