[dogscoff]

When you give the colonise command, the game actually puts the following into the order queue:

Load population
move to X
colonise X

If you first give the orders
move to Y
Load population

what you end up with is this:

move to Y
Load population
Load population
move to X
colonise X

As you can see, load population is in there twice. The first one loads population. The second one clears your queue because the cargo hold is now full and no more population can be loaded.

To get around it, just give the the moveto Y order and then the colonise X order, without explicitly asking for population to be picked up. That will give the results you are looking for, and your order queue will look like this:
move to Y
Load population
move to X
colonise X

[ December 17, 2002, 12:37: Message edited by: dogscoff ]