Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is an alternative! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Is the planet still habitable?

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

Radiation Bombs damage the conditions.
Neutron Bombs only damage the population.

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

A neutron bomb is only supposed to affect living organisms.

But in SE4, if it wipes out the population, does it not also wipe out the facilities? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

Good question. If a planet (colony) with 0 pop takes 1 point of damage, it is destroyed. Even if it has 10k hit points in weapons platforms, 1 damage destroys it.

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

But how do you get a colony with 0 population with it's facilities intact?

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

You can make a colony with 0 population to begin with, and then drop weapon platforms on it.

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

Interesting! You can "colonize" a planet with 0 population, but you cannot make a 0 population planet after it has a population.

Seems like a "minor" bug to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, you can. What you do is get the population below 50M, and then give the planet the "Abandon Planet" order, but when it asks you if you want to scrap all facilities you say no. This will remove all the pop from the planet, but you will still have the colony there and all the facilities.

Geoschmo

[ October 31, 2002, 15:24: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

Thanks Geo http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I ran a sim without a facility, so hitting the "Abandon Planet" wiped the colony out.

Should have tried running a sim wih a facility on the planet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Removing population from a planet.
 

Hmmmm

Seems to me MM could change the coding to allow any race to own a "colonized planet" with zero population by simply depositing some of its population there.

The planet is empty, so there is nothing to oppose another race from taking it over. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif