Weird colony issue in SEIV Deluxe

[Yimboli]

Jeku said:


Anyways, the time left on these queue items are always on Never, because my population is at 0!

Thanks for your help!

I had a problem like this, but I'm familiar with the no population issue from se4. I know I put people on the planet because a space yard and resupply depot were both built. However, somehow the population went to zero. There was no plague. My only conclusion is the harsh conditions led people to migrate.

Perhaps someone with more experience can enlighten us?

PS: this was with the demo.

[Kamog]

In the SEV demo, I think if you build a colony ship at a planet with a small population, it can load the entire population from the planet when you order the ship to colonize, leaving your planet empty.

[tmcc]

I think that is correct. IIRC in SEIV a basic Colony ship with a colonizer and 1 Cargo component holds 34M colonists. The same configuration in SEV holds at least twice that much so it is possible to strip off lots of population with colonize orders in SEV.

[Atrocities]

You should read the FAQ for SE IV. You will find a lot of very helpful information in there including a section dealing with the old ZERO colony population problem.

Believe it or not, this is one of the most common questions that new players post about. Why doesn't my colony have any population or why does is say NEVER when I put things into the que. It has gotten us all at one point or another.

[Suicide Junkie]

I myself once made a sacrifice play with almost all of my navy to get a colony ship through two neutral systems in CBmod (Neutrals are very tough customers in CB, often having more warships than the normals since they don't waste them in wars)

I got to the far side with very heavy casualties, only to discover that I'd forgotten to bring colonists!

Fortunately, nobody else took the opportunity to smash through my warppoint bases before I was able to start rebuilding my navy.