Building Colonies???HELP!

[Atrocities]

Ah yes, the Newbi Can't Build Colony question yet once again.

We really should post a quick guide to newbie questions on one of our web sites for these new players. They would benefit a lot from it, and it would also give us something to do that would help everyone.

Your question is often asked, and as you can see, answered. Best of luck with the game, and welcome to our little addiction.

[Mudshark]

Atrocities, perhaps this is right up my ally. As always you ideas are well founded. work willing, I'll start working on this in the next few days.

[dogscoff]

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We really should post a quick guide to newbie questions on one of our web sites for these new players. They would benefit a lot from it, and it would also give us something to do that would help everyone.

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But that would ruin our "faqracing" games=-)

[Lord Balzingo]

Well, duh! I've only had SEIV for less than a week, but I had fairly quickly figured out that sending a colony ship didn't necessarily mean sending any colonists. But I had stupidly assumed that I had to send a population transport along with the colony ship to establish the base population. As a consequence, all of my colonies started with 300M inhabitants, and as I put them on pretty hospitable worlds, I got great overall population growth. ButI was wondering how those other races managed to colonise without my ever seeing any transports, and why their colonies seemed so small. Duh. It didn't even occur to me to strip out some engines from my colony ship to make storage space!

As it turns out, my tactic (fast colony ships paird with fast population transports) was good for getting large colonies quickly in distant systems, but I wonder if I'd have done so if I'd known!

[Mysterial]

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Originally posted by Lord Balzingo:
Well, duh! I've only had SEIV for less than a week, but I had fairly quickly figured out that sending a colony ship didn't necessarily mean sending any colonists. But I had stupidly assumed that I had to send a population transport along with the colony ship to establish the base population. As a consequence, all of my colonies started with 300M inhabitants, and as I put them on pretty hospitable worlds, I got great overall population growth. ButI was wondering how those other races managed to colonise without my ever seeing any transports, and why their colonies seemed so small. Duh. It didn't even occur to me to strip out some engines from my colony ship to make storage space!

As it turns out, my tactic (fast colony ships paird with fast population transports) was good for getting large colonies quickly in distant systems, but I wonder if I'd have done so if I'd known!

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You don't even need to strip out engines, the colony module includes some cargo space.

[Gryphin]

Maybe a "New Player Frequently Asked Questions" thread should be started. It could then be "Bumped" once a week with instructions in the "Bump" with a kind of list of the FAQs in the order they appear. I would recommend spelling out “Frequently Asked Questions” in the name of the thread since not everyone knows what “FAQ” means.
The first FAQ would be the empty population feature.

Just a note: the Empty Colony issue crops up repeated even with experianced player, (well it does for me). It occures when your sweetheart has asked you to quit playing and spend some time with me for the third time. Generaly this issue crops up about 1am.

[Atrocities]

Lord Balzingo, sorry if we offended you, its just that we had to have some fun on this one. This is the most asked question and ALL of us fell pray too it ourselves and had to ask how to colonize at one time or another.