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Originally posted by dominion:
There is a cap in the initial population size for colonization (e.g., 100 million initial colonizing but 500 million capacity max for a breathable tiny planet).
Tiny - 100
Small - 200
Medium - 300
Large - 400
Huge - 500
You shouldn't supply more than that # of people on the ship. Put some mines/fighters/satellites in the extra cargo space.
Unless something has changed recently this is not a limit on new colony size with your OWN race but on new colony size with
another race, a 'subjugated' race that breathes a different atmosphere. I've filled 'super' colony ships with 1000 population or more and they work fine -- provided it is your ORIGINAL population.
Notice that these limits you have 'discovered' are the size of a DOMED colony on the given planet? This is the key.
The problem is that the game doesn't account for the race of the population you are using. It always assumes you are using your default race. For example, you'll see the red and blue 'stars' next to colonizable planets (if you have this enabled) ONLY according to their suitability for your default race. Well, when a new colony is created it is ASSUMED to be for your default race. If the planet atmosphere is not breathable by your default race, the colony is ASSUMED to be domed and its population limit set accordingly. Then when the population is transfered from the colonizer it will 'choke' when it hits that limit. I had the same problem with transports once. I created colonies with 0 population because I had just acquired the population that could breathe the atmosphere and didn't want to have to do the 'exchange" thing with a transport. I used the <d>rop population to send them directly to the empty colonies but when they arrived only the equivalent of the DOMED population was actually dropped. The rest stayed on the transport. I had to manually drop the rest. I reported this to MM but have not tested since. I guess he didn't fix it.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 04 June 2001).]
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