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Also note that if the colony ship runs out of supplies before reaching the target, it can't plant the colony when it arrives;
Since when? I recall purchasing an out-of-supply EEE colony ship for a captured Battleship as it approached a nice planet in my system.
Certainly under V1.49, and I planted perfectly fine.
It does take one extra turn, since you need 1 MP to land once you've arrived at the planet.
I distinctly remember a colony ship parking over an empty planet and doing nothing until I noticed the red barrel and sent it back for resupply, but I haven't let the situation occur again; I'll start up a test game and see if I can reproduce it.
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Cap'n Q
My first mod!
Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 31 October 2001).]