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Old August 10th, 2000, 08:22 PM

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Yes, my most frequent complaint to Malfador about the game is the brain-dead population transport minister. It's really tedious to manually load population into a transport and send it off to a specific planet to drop them, then bring it back for more... etc., etc. But if you let the minister do it, the little bitty domed-colony planets with a hostile environment get filled up and the big 8 billion capacity planets with good environment get drained. The sensible way to do it would be to try to keep an even _percentage_ of population on your planets. Any planet that fills up while others are not full just cuts your over-all population growth. It often doesn't even check how MUCH population a planet needs and sends several full transports when only a partial load from one transport would be needed. Even worse, it will load a transport full of population and then if it decides there's no need to drop them anywhere they just sit there. While in a transport they are not contributing to your population growth rates, and if you NEED the transport for something else in the future you may find that all your planets are now full and you can't find anyplace to put them. It's as if the population transport minister is working for the other players. Grrr....

I wish this minsiter worked properly, it would save a LOT of the grunt work in the game. I don't use many of the other ministers. I can't believe anyone would use the politics minister, for example. Would you want to play a game not knowing if you might randomly find yourself at war with another player at any moment?
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Old August 11th, 2000, 03:10 AM

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Well one thing I did notice in SE IV was that when you manually sent a colony ship out that was equiped with population cargo pods,, that the cargo pods would fill up with people. In SE III this doen't happen,, so,, maybe,, if the Minister in SE IV sends a colony ship out automatically,, it will also fill the cargo pods automatically and reduce the need for the Population Minister.

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Old August 11th, 2000, 04:54 AM

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Gold date going to get pushed back? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Never used any of the ministers but after reading the Posts in this forum I guess that is a good thing.
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Old August 11th, 2000, 05:21 PM

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The Colonization Minister is very handy and when it is working it is pretty good. It seems to be a bit biased toward colonizing the largest closest planets first but this isn't necessarly a bad thing since I prefer to put my resupply depote, space port and shipyard on the largest planet so I have room to put planetary defenses.

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Old August 12th, 2000, 03:41 PM

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Tested the Colonization Minister in the New Demo.. It does load the Cargo Pods with extra colonists.

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