Pickup of alien population?

[tbontob]

In a PBW game, can I pick up alien population from another player?

For example:

Assume I have a T & R treaty with a PBW player who is willing to give me 50 million of his population. Can I go to his planet and pick up the population?

If this is possible, I assume he must be the one to upload them.

If not and I am the only one who has a transport, must I gift him the transport, so he uploads the population to it and then he gifts the transport back to me

[Captain Kwok]

You'd have to gift him a transport and have him load population and gift it back to you. There is no way to transfer population between allies.

[tbontob]

Thanx Captain

What if he has the transport?

Can he download his population to my planet?

[Captain Kwok]

It would be the same. He would have to gift the transport with population on it, and then you'd be able to transfer it to your planet, etc.

[tbontob]

Thanks Captain

Seems like a complex process just to transfer a few colonists. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif