Colonization by units?

[Kana]

Dont you have to have population to colonize? If this is true...then you couldn't use units, because they can't carry cargo...

Kana

[Will]

Never forgot to load population onto a colony ship, eh?

It is possible to make a colony with no population. Not sure on the units being able to colonize, however. Try changing the stock colony components to fit on fighters, and see if it works, I guess. Could be an interesting mod, have huge "fighters" that require a colony component, and colonize that way...

[Slick]

You don't need population to colonize. I'ts true that units can never carry cargo of any kind. Colonists would exist on the carrier.

Will, part of the idea is to miniturize the colony modules.

[geoschmo]

Population is not the limiting factor here. There is a line in settings.txt that will allow you to make a mod with automatic population for new colonies. So you wouldn't even have to send a transport after with people on it. Unfortunatly it is impossible to colonize with a unit. You can give a unit the colonization ability, but you cannot give said unit the colonization order. The colonize button never lights up, and the units are ignored by the code in the planets screen when it's deciding how many colony ships you have available. So, your idea will not work.