Newbie question--please answer

bostonrpgmania · #1 February 6th, 2003, 07:45 PM

Thank you so much for many helpful hints.
I will study the game more based on comments that I have from you.

However, one more question. Since for the first three planets, I just built the colony ship and colonize a planet without doing an additional step of loading people to colony ship. Thus I was curious why in the Last case there were no population....Manual talks about building a dome. I am very low on tech development thus reaching 7th level might take some time. How can I build a dome? any prerequisite?

Slick · #2 February 6th, 2003, 07:52 PM

Read the FAQ in this thread:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=005518

It has tons of good info that is not in the manuals. It is about 5 or 6 Posts down the first page.

Slick.

bostonrpgmania · #3 February 6th, 2003, 07:58 PM

I didnt have to worry about population when I colonized planet which is in the same screen as my home planet. Population seems automatically to grow. However the two colonis where i have zero population is a warp point away
Is this the reason?

Suicide Junkie · #4 February 6th, 2003, 08:01 PM

When the colony ship gets an order to colonize and it is empty, it will pick up population automatically.

You moved the ship first, so when the colonize order occured, the ship wasn't in orbit of a planet, and had no population to pick up.

bostonrpgmania · #5 February 6th, 2003, 08:05 PM

Oh I see
What a delicate game!!
thank you very much!

bostonrpgmania · #6 February 6th, 2003, 08:06 PM

Oh I see
What a delicate game!!
thank you very much!
Can I make that colony repopulated without
losing additional colony ship?

MegaTrain · #7 February 6th, 2003, 08:31 PM

Yes, either use another colony ship or build a dedicated population transport ship with cargo containers.

Use the "transfer cargo" button (two arrows) to move some people from your homeworld to the ship, then send the ship to the planet. Don't use the colonize button (it couldn't anyway--you'd never lose a second colony ship) then use the transfer cargo button again.

You should be able to tell if a ship has people on it. It will have a little person icon when you click on it.

Cool idea: load a colony ship, send it to the planet, drop off just HALF the people, then use the ship to colonize another close-by planet.

And WELCOME TO THE GAME!!