Probley an easy question to answer.. but

[PsychoTechFreak]

Sounds like you have forgotten to load some guys and gals into your colonizer. If you select the colonizer, hit the colonize button then the planet that you want to colonize (this would be the automatic way). If the colonizer has to be sent for exploration first (that means your target planet is unknown), hit the load (arrow up) button, and take some population before you move it away from your source planet.

[ 12 March 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

[Gryphin]

BooBooTheGhost ,
Welcome to the single most common gneratetor of the "Oh Phong!!" exclamation. You will find this phenomenom will strike sometime after 12 midnight. One of the first warning signs is you have just told your sweetheart, "Just one more trun" for the 3rd time and she is standing behind you with an expression that will crack your minitor.
"You have been warned"

[Val]

If the planets have 0 pop, then you did forget to load up some people. You can make a transport (or use another colony ship) and load up some peeps from your homeworld and drop them off at these new colonies - just use the load/unload cargo buttons while over the planets in question!

[BooBooTheGhost]

Thanks so much.. see one easy question to answer. =)

[Growltigga]

BooBootheghost

Whilst we are talking about what Gryphin so rightly described as the first primary cock-up we all make, keep in mind that your military freighters/population transports should never be idle - use them to move excess population from your core worlds to your new colonies - there is no point having your homeworld generating populationm is can't hold so skim a couple of hundred million off and move them to your new planets

[wr8th]

"so skim a couple of hundred million off and move them to your new planets"

Yeah, y'know... the way the New World and Australia were populated....

General Chang: We need breathing room.
Captain James T. Kirk: Earth, Hitler, 1938.

[Growltigga]

Ouch, that was a bit harsh if possibly true - it would have been more accurate if I said 'ship out 200 million of your convicts and other unwanted's'