Zero Zero Zero

[PeterD]

At about turn 150 in a solo game against 11 TDM
AI's I noticed a yellow "never" in the build
menu.

I checked the planet out and it looked normal
except the population read 0M (none).

There had been no intel attacks, no plague and
I could still access the planet, it just wouldn't
build anything. The min/org/rad totals showed
0 0 0.

Over the next few turns 4 more planets did this.
No attacks or plague's and the game isn't
limited rescource. Some of the planets had been
around a long time some were newly colonised.

Some of them were green cross planets so I guess
it wasn't bad conditions.

I built a cargo ship and sent over some
population and off it went building again.

The only change to colonisation I made was in the
settings file. Automatic col = 2 (to hurry
things along).

Is this the problem? Any help appreciated.

[Droplede]

Actually, this sort of thing happens when you send colony ships out without people aboard. It makes the colony, but nothing else happens. Are your shipyards set to automatically send ships out somewhere, and then you're giving colonization orders a turn later?

[Atrocities]

Sometime plagues happen and are not mentioned in the turn even file. I have seen this a couple of times in many of my games.

[PeterD]

Ok I can believe there's a plague and its not
mentioned.

But if all the people die you'd lose the planet
and alls it facilities, wouldn't you?

In answer to the first post, my shipyards aren't
set to anything automatic.

[Paul1980au]

Having something that happens not turning up in the events turn file needs to be fixed Version 2 anyone.

[geoschmo]

If all the people on the planet die from a plague or some other event, you do not lose the facilities. The planet goes dormant like you are describing. Only if the population is killed in combat are the facilities also destroyed and the colony erased.