Re-Establishing Communications

capnq · #1 July 25th, 2001, 02:15 PM

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Not that I doubt you SJ, but is this true?? I know that you can set the .txt file to have a certain pop included in an "empty" colonizer (other than the 0 by default), but I wasn't aware that pop was NOT a criteria for the planet to make contact...

It agrees with another phenomenon I've encountered: if you find a 0 pop colony that belongs to another race, you still have to land a troop to take control of it; you can't just drop your own people there.

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geoschmo · #2 July 25th, 2001, 02:21 PM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Do you have a repair bay, and is the ship Cruiser or above?

That's all you need..

refit to space yard
build colony ship
contact restablished

Phoenix-D

Sorry, this won't work. You can't refit with a repair bay. You have to have a space yard to initiate the refit. After that a repair bay can repair the components, but the space yard has to be there initially or you can't get started.

Geoschmo

dogscoff · #3 July 25th, 2001, 02:56 PM

QUOTE:
It agrees with another phenomenon I've encountered: if you find a 0 pop colony that belongs to another race, you still have to land a troop to take control of it; you can't just drop your own people there.
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You could just say that troops are needed to eliminate any booby traps and security systems left behind by the previous occupiers.

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CW · #4 July 26th, 2001, 08:29 AM

How can you have a zero pop colony?!?

dogscoff · #5 July 26th, 2001, 09:25 AM

Either by abandoning it and choosing not to scrap the facilities, or by using an empty coloniser to plant it in the first place.

I've acquired a few zero pop planets from the Crysonlite in my current VS AI game. Easy money=-)

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