Bug or...?

Shoujo · #1 September 14th, 2001, 08:47 AM

In one of my PBW games I was able to get a large population of oxygen breathers (I'm none), so obviously I used them to colonize oxygen planets.

In order to accelerate population growth I'd been moving people around from my crowded to empty planets. Now here's where things start to get odd... I noticed that in some cases I'd removed all the oxygen breathers from oxygen planets, leaving only 1 or 2 million none breathers. What then happened was the computer started treating these planets as domed colonies

Now I have funky planets with 18/3 facilities.

Is this supposed to happen or is it a bug? If it's a bug is there any way to fix this problem other than abandoning and recolonizing the planets?

Zanthor · #2 September 14th, 2001, 09:19 AM

From what I understand this is supposed to happen. It reverts to a domed colony when you pull the oxygen breathers off.

dogscoff · #3 September 14th, 2001, 10:10 AM

That is the way the game works and is supposd to work. Don't worry about it.

If you think about it, there is no other way the game could handle without making population handling *much* more complicatd.

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Lemmy · #4 September 14th, 2001, 11:34 AM

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I noticed that in some cases I'd removed all the oxygen breathers from oxygen planets, leaving only 1 or 2 million none breathers. What then happened was the computer started treating these planets as domed colonies Now I have funky planets with 18/3 facilities.

you mean you already had none-breathers on your planet and it wasn't a domed colony? That is a bug, the only way not to have a domed colony is to have only one type of breathers on the planet.

dogscoff · #5 September 14th, 2001, 11:57 AM

I see your point Lemmy. I guess it depends if the none- breathers were there before the oxys were removed. (IE was it a mixed race colony or did the none-breathers arrive as the oxys left.)

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Shoujo · #6 September 15th, 2001, 01:45 AM

The oxygen breathers were there first. In other words it started as a undomed colony. Then none breathers got added (probably due to some cargo transfering I was doing). Then all the oxygen breathers got removed, leaving 1 or 2 million none breathers and the planet became a domed colony

While it makes perfect sense that the planet become a domed colony, I don't see how my none breathers could have been there in the first place without a dome. Well at least I get my facilities.