Why a domed city when I have the correct planet / atmosphere?

rakkar · #1 November 18th, 2000, 09:41 PM

I made a race with gas / hydrogen attributes. I found a gas planet with a hydrogen atmosphere. It made a domed colony with 5 facilities max. What's up?

Instar · #2 November 18th, 2000, 10:21 PM

You sure its hydrogen? Ive never had this happen before.

Elmo · #3 November 18th, 2000, 10:32 PM

Did you use colonists from a different race? I've done that and it sure is annoying.

C4 · #4 November 18th, 2000, 10:55 PM

I had the exact same thing happen to me only it was with a Rock colony. When I colonized I picked a military installation. The planet had an O2 atmosphere and it was small. For some reason the colony came domed with a max facility of 5.

I abandoned the planet, recolonized and picked a mining colony type. This time the colony wasn't domed and the max facility was 10.

Maybe this is a bug? I didn't conquer any other planets yet so I don't think I would would have colonized with any other races besides human.

[This message has been edited by C4 (edited 18 November 2000).]

Comar · #5 November 19th, 2000, 12:07 AM

I strongly suspect you built the colony ship on a planet with another race. Take a transport and put a few million of the proper race on it and send it to the planet. Transfer the new colonists to the planet in question and remove the old ones. See if that makes a difference.

rakkar · #6 November 19th, 2000, 12:51 AM

Nope, that was in the begining of the game with the original race. The planet showed up with a green star too. But when I colonized it it got a dome.

Comar · #7 November 19th, 2000, 02:33 AM

HMMMM. Is there a moon? This is the first time I have come across this.

SirDarwin · #8 November 19th, 2000, 04:40 AM

Perhaps a military compound creates a dome, to add to planet defense? Or it was a bug.

Arralen · #9 November 21st, 2000, 12:19 AM

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Originally posted by rakkar:
Nope, that was in the begining of the game with the original race. The planet showed up with a green star too. But when I colonized it it got a dome.

This happens when you don't use the "colonize" button with the colonizer stting over a world with some of your peoples on .. it than builds an empty dome which reverts back to "normal colony" when you drop some colonists via transport.

At least that's what I observed with the v0.56 demo .. dunno how it is now, but maybe you want to check

Arralen