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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
Gron vs Toltayan.

In the other hand, the Gron had not colonized the Rock/Ice planets.... Don't think that's
exactly the 'Colony bug'. Simply they reached the max number of colony ship (5), and all
of them were Gas for the time when they got Rock/Ice.
After the Gron were able to create some planets, the problem with the Colony Ship finished... then the Toltayan had problems.
The Gron won at the turn 330.

I think you're right, that wasn't the colony bug. That was a colonizer dead end.
During the weekend I did some testing. My statement in a previous post that calling for names wouldn't help avoiding such a dead end was proven wrong.
Based on my (connected games) and Oleg's tests (not connected games) I would say that calling for names will protect the AIs from getting stuck in those dead ends.
However, it does not kill the colony bug. In my simultaneous test games (using the contest map and its settings) this damned bug quite regularly occurs.
Calling for names will make the construction file somewhat bulkier but for me avoiding those dead ends is worth it.