Send Colony Ship?

[Lloyd Heilbrunn]

This works fine for me in a turn based game.But I always load population manually and then send them from the planet screen.You might try it this way......

[PurpleRhino]

Personally, I've never had a problem with it... and actually use it fairly often. partly because of the fact that you can't screw up and send the wrong kind of colony ship... and party because I can then see if I already have a ship going there.

[capnq]

I think I've encountered this same problem, but only when I've put the colony ship in a fleet with an armed escort. When I gave the fleet the Colonize order, I'd get an error message that the escort couldn't load any cargo, and the fleet wouldn't have any orders. I've gotten around this by manually loading the colonists and moving the fleet away from the planet before issuing the Colonize order. (This also has the slightly odd result that the orders list ends up with a Load Population order between Move To and Colonize, but since there's no population to load at the target yet, that order doesn't do anything.)