Newbie question--please answer

Slick · #1 February 6th, 2003, 07:52 PM

Read the FAQ in this thread:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=005518

It has tons of good info that is not in the manuals. It is about 5 or 6 Posts down the first page.

Slick.

bostonrpgmania · #2 February 6th, 2003, 07:58 PM

I didnt have to worry about population when I colonized planet which is in the same screen as my home planet. Population seems automatically to grow. However the two colonis where i have zero population is a warp point away
Is this the reason?

Suicide Junkie · #3 February 6th, 2003, 08:01 PM

When the colony ship gets an order to colonize and it is empty, it will pick up population automatically.

You moved the ship first, so when the colonize order occured, the ship wasn't in orbit of a planet, and had no population to pick up.

bostonrpgmania · #4 February 6th, 2003, 08:05 PM

Oh I see
What a delicate game!!
thank you very much!

bostonrpgmania · #5 February 6th, 2003, 08:06 PM

Oh I see
What a delicate game!!
thank you very much!
Can I make that colony repopulated without
losing additional colony ship?

MegaTrain · #6 February 6th, 2003, 08:31 PM

Yes, either use another colony ship or build a dedicated population transport ship with cargo containers.

Use the "transfer cargo" button (two arrows) to move some people from your homeworld to the ship, then send the ship to the planet. Don't use the colonize button (it couldn't anyway--you'd never lose a second colony ship) then use the transfer cargo button again.

You should be able to tell if a ship has people on it. It will have a little person icon when you click on it.

Cool idea: load a colony ship, send it to the planet, drop off just HALF the people, then use the ship to colonize another close-by planet.

And WELCOME TO THE GAME!!

Pax · #7 February 6th, 2003, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bostonrpgmania:
I didnt have to worry about population when I colonized planet which is in the same screen as my home planet. Population seems automatically to grow. However the two colonis where i have zero population is a warp point away
Is this the reason?

If you use the "colonise pl;anet" button, the colonsier will load population from where it currently is, before moving.

However, if you first "Move" the ship to a new system, and then use the "Colonise" button, it won't load any population unless it is orbiting a world that HAS population on it.

So, let me guess -- you built the colony ships, and the one you used in your starting system, you just hit the "Colonise" button, right?

Then, the other two you moved to the next star system FIRST, and then used the "Colonise" button, right?

From now on, try to use the "Colonise" button only for yoru Colony ships ... if you must do your actual explorign with colony ships, load them with population first.