Planetary Populations

[Fyron]

You can colonize a planet with any atmosphere (or none at all). The only restriction is on the planet type (ie: Rock, Gas, Ice). If you have Rock Colony Tech, you can colonize any Rock planet, with an atmosphere or not.

[Lizard_King89]

This may be a dumb-*** question so forgive me (newbie here). When I colonize a planet outside of my galaxy I can't build anything on the planet after I colonize it. I know I need a spaceport in every new galaxy I colonize but I can't even build that and my population is 0. Help Please!!!!

[Baron Grazic]

Population being 0 would be the problem.
You must have a Population of 1M or higher before you can build anything on a Planet.
If you give a Coloniser a "Colonise that planet" order it will automatically load population, move and colonise.
If you give it a move order or Warp order it will not load population, so remember to manually add them first.
I remeber falling for that when starting.

[Lizard_King89]

Thanks for your help but how do you load them?

[Baron Grazic]

With the Ship selected, click on the 'Cargo Transfer' button, which will allow you to swap Population & Units around.
or
If the ship is not at the planet, use the 'Load Cargo' order, select the Location to load from and then select the type to load. But note this will completely fill your Cargo capicity with the desired population or Cargo, even if you only want 10.

[Lizard_King89]

It worked, thanks so much

[capnq]

You can colonize a planet with any atmosphere (or none at all). The only restriction is on the planet type (ie: Rock, Gas, Ice).

Unless you specifically turned on "Colonize Own Atmosphere Only" and/or "Colonize Own Planet Type Only" when you set up the game.