Can't colonize gas giants

Gripen · #1 February 17th, 2001, 06:56 PM

I researched Gas Giants, and they now have stars next to them for colonization, but when I send a gas giant colony ship to one it tells me I can't colonize gas giants. Help file is frustrating and I couldn't find an answer. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gripen

pathfinder · #2 February 17th, 2001, 07:11 PM

are you sure you added the correct colony compoenent to the colonizer ship?
like maybe you're putting a rock colonizer in it instead

Emperor Zodd · #3 February 17th, 2001, 07:13 PM

You need to make a new colony ship design with a Gas giant colony component.

Taqwus · #4 February 17th, 2001, 07:59 PM

It'll also give you that message if you do have a gas giant colony pod on board, but it's damaged (Usually either by going through an unstable warp point or occasionally by an AI's ship bomb intel op. If it's on Minister, then Last I checked the ship will *keep going* to its destination even 'tho it needs to be repaired first.)

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Gripen · #5 February 18th, 2001, 01:20 AM

When I read the answers to my question I thought 'What, do these guys think I'm stupid? It's for a gas giant. Of course I put a gas colony on it!' ROCK!!!!

Thanks All,
Gripen

Sinapus · #6 February 18th, 2001, 01:41 AM

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Originally posted by Gripen:
When I read the answers to my question I thought 'What, do these guys think I'm stupid? It's for a gas giant. Of course I put a gas colony on it!' ROCK!!!!

Thanks All,
Gripen

Don't feel so touchy. I know I've previously made a mistake of copying my rock colony ship design and redesignating it as a gas or ice colony ship, but forgetting to change the colonizer component and wondering why it won't let me colonize the planet.

I'm going to guess that others have done so and concluded you've made that mistake as well. It's very embarassing.

So, was it a gas colony component on the ship that failed, or did you accidently put the wrong component on that ship?

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pathfinder · #7 February 18th, 2001, 05:02 AM

what sinapus said...I been playing since October and STILL today I goofed and put an Ice colonizer comp in what I called a gas colonizer...just goofed, so it DOES happen...DOH!

raynor · #8 February 18th, 2001, 05:38 AM

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who copies the Rock Colony and renames it a Gas Colony without remembering to trade out the colonization modules. Thank goodness for lots and lots of minerals in storage and quick retrofits.

Sinapus · #9 February 18th, 2001, 05:52 AM

Worse, some of those planet bitmaps are misleading. So sometimes even when I have the right colony module type on the right ship I end up with that message because what I thought was a rock planet was really ice, or vice versa.

I'm also glad I put planet space yards on nearly all my planets. Retrofitting is sooo much easier then.

(I don't build huge amounts of ships, but I find that the PSY's help build facilities much quicker.)

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raynor · #10 February 18th, 2001, 08:35 PM

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Worse, some of those planet bitmaps are misleading. So sometimes even when I have the right colony module type on the right ship I end up with that message because what I thought was a rock planet was really ice, or vice versa.

You are a genius!! Did you know that? You are absolutely a genius!!

Did you ever see Independence Day where Jeff Goldblum's father in the movie (played by the guy who I think used to be on taxi) tells him that he should get off the floor or he'll catch cold? From that, Jeff Goldblum's character profusely thanks his brilliant father for giving him the idea for a computer virus. Ironically enough, this is the only time in the history of humankind that a computer virus is good for something.

It should be very easily possible to go through all planet bitmaps and specify which wants you want to be rock, ice and gas. Then, you and me both won't say to ourselves: Hey, that one has got to be an ice planet--only to find out it's Rock or Gas giant. Good thinking!

I've been having entirely too much fun writing programs to read the SE4 data files. I have one that lets me scroll through all the components and view their values as well as the small and large bitmaps. It should be possible to modify that program to read in Data\SectType.txt and display the planets from Pictures\Planets.