Removing population from a planet.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Taera:
tbontop: you can always ask someone to clear the planet with their neutron bombs

That is an alternative!

Is the planet still habitable?

[Fyron]

Radiation Bombs damage the conditions.
Neutron Bombs only damage the population.

[tbontob]

A neutron bomb is only supposed to affect living organisms.

But in SE4, if it wipes out the population, does it not also wipe out the facilities?

[Fyron]

Good question. If a planet (colony) with 0 pop takes 1 point of damage, it is destroyed. Even if it has 10k hit points in weapons platforms, 1 damage destroys it.

[tbontob]

But how do you get a colony with 0 population with it's facilities intact?

[Fyron]

You can make a colony with 0 population to begin with, and then drop weapon platforms on it.

[tbontob]

Interesting! You can "colonize" a planet with 0 population, but you cannot make a 0 population planet after it has a population.

Seems like a "minor" bug to me.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by tbontob:
Interesting! You can "colonize" a planet with 0 population, but you cannot make a 0 population planet after it has a population.

Seems like a "minor" bug to me.

Yes, you can. What you do is get the population below 50M, and then give the planet the "Abandon Planet" order, but when it asks you if you want to scrap all facilities you say no. This will remove all the pop from the planet, but you will still have the colony there and all the facilities.

Geoschmo

[ October 31, 2002, 15:24: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[tbontob]

Thanks Geo

I ran a sim without a facility, so hitting the "Abandon Planet" wiped the colony out.

Should have tried running a sim wih a facility on the planet.

[tbontob]

Hmmmm

Seems to me MM could change the coding to allow any race to own a "colonized planet" with zero population by simply depositing some of its population there.

The planet is empty, so there is nothing to oppose another race from taking it over.