[Strategia_In_Ultima]

On the other hand, if you've already got a sphereworld and have built a new one right next to it, and the original one has several billion pop living on it, you can build a Baseship in an acceptable amount of time and use it to essentially get an extra trip with the large transport without the transport actually ferrying that population. If you couple that singe large transport with the baseship, however, you double the amount of pop you have after colonizing, and need a turn less to get the same amount of pop on the sphereworld..... I'm not making any sense at all am I?

Also, a colony baseship actually carries quite a lot more pop than a large transport. Large transports weigh in at 900kT in total, while the Baseship can count on more then 1200kT in gross cargo space, not counting the colony module, engines, and Master Computer. You're using Master Computers of course, since you've got the tech and economy to build a Sphereworld.....