Send Colony ship and Simultaneous games

tesco samoa · #1 August 27th, 2001, 01:55 AM

I never noticed this before or I might need to reinstall my seiv game but ....

When in the planets screen and I select send Colony ship they don't move. And the next turn their just sitting there with no orders.

For me to colonize anything I have to select the ship and hit the 'c' then select the planet ??

What gives? It is 1.41 seiv

P.S.

Same atmosphere ....

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geoschmo · #2 August 27th, 2001, 02:11 AM

No need to reload. It's a bug.

I have noticed it usually manifests itself when you are trying to colonize a planet in a system you don't currently have a ship in or another colony. It's like your colony ship thinks maybe the planet isn't there if you don't have an actual view of the planet currently.

Although sometimes I have sent colony ships like that and it worked. It's not consistant as far as I can determine.

Geoschmo

tesco samoa · #3 August 27th, 2001, 02:26 AM

Thank you very much for the response. Have a good night or day ( depending on where you are)

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Deathstalker · #4 August 27th, 2001, 10:12 AM

Geo, I have noticed this too, but with some other observations. The planet selected for colonization is already colonized by another race. You can't see them, they can't see you but the colonize order knows that that planet is invalid due to the fact that it is already colonized....at least this is what I think is happening sometimes.(I can do this sometimes at the start of a game with the 'ancient ability, find what looks like the other races homeworlds and then attemp to colonize, if fails then that is where they are.) Either way it is a bug, your ship should have to go there to find out it is colonized....(or maybe I just imagined this whole scenario....damn, 4:20am, time for bed....

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tesco samoa · #5 August 27th, 2001, 03:37 PM

Does the AI colonize minister work or do you have to manually select planets?

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