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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Just FYI, there might be a way to get default population with a colonizer just like SE3. There is a line in the settings.txt that may or may not work.

Automatic Colonization Population := 0

I've never bothered to change it, but maybe this would make all colonies start with the set default population? Then again maybe it does nothing.

[ 29 April 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

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Yes this is correct. The "Automatic Colonization Population := 0" line in the settings.txt file will make it so you don't have to load pop onto a ship. I just tested it for the trial of it. I just put 5 in the place of 0 and I built a colony ship and sent it to a planet without loading pop onto the ship and then colonized the planet, and it had 5M pop on it even though the ship itself had none on it. So if you don't want to bother loading cargo change this setting to however many million people you want on the planet at first. Although this is cheating, if I were to change it for a game I would only put 1 in place of the 0 to make it longer before the planet got a good sized pop on it. But I would still considar it cheating as it takes away some of the realizim from the game.