Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Were the warships all minesweepers? =)

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Minesweepers posing as warships? Could be actually: Minesweeper has been known to destroy the productivity of some workers. It isn't a very deadly weapon, though.

All four vessels were equipped with weaponry and supplies, though I don't recall for sure whether they used Direct Fire weapons or Seekers. Of course, Seekers are known to have a few bugs, but Direct Fire is a good deal more likely at turn 50 (when the attack occurred).

For what it's worth, we both concluded it was a bug, and I no longer have the savegame as my harddrive crashed since then.

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Did you see the Dr Who episode they aired on Scifi channel this past friday?

Guy was claiming ambulances were warships, since they are used in wars. =)


The group I play with ran into a bug where you can have a fleet with a troop transport set to capture planet, fleet set to capture planet.... but the capturing of the planet never occurs. The planet had no population, and no defenses.... so the troop transport refused to land troops. Very odd.

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Planets with no population cause that issue.
Nobody sees it as a valid target.

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Thank you for all the thoughtful replies, everyone. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Yes, yes.... all the thoughtful replies completely off-topic to the question of data files. LOL. We rule!

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

whoa there sj so the game i'm in where a enemy has a planet but never populated it
effectivly said planet is immune to troop transport ships
the only way is destroy and colonize

darn

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Well, since the "colony" has no population, facilities, units or anything else, you cannot destroy it. For a colony to be "destroyed" in combat, you need to kill off all the population, but since said colony never had any population to start with, it is untouchable and can only be removed A.) by the owner or B.) by a solar nuke. Power to the empty colonies.

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Well, destroying the planet will probably work.

Re: Troops and Happiness question
 

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can't destroy a planet with a colony? Could be mistaken, I guess.