Population in SEIV

[StarJack]

GEOSCHMO:Also, why can't you have a domed colony exsist side by side with races that breathe that atmosphere? That would require some changes, but it would be neat.

I have that situation in a game against the AI, although it was quite by accident. My race breaths oxygen and I captured a methane breathers planet. Planet next to it was methane, and I remembered from reading this forum how you could use Transports to expand domed planets. I accidentally loaded a transport up that had 1 oxy breather and the rest methane, and accidentally dumped them (what I get for getting in a hurry) on the methane planet I captured.
I've been off-loading like crazy from that planet, trying to get that 1 oxy breather the heck out of there, but the transports just keep picking up the methane breathers.
I'm close to emptying the planet now, and figure I'm going to wind up with that 1 flippin' oxygen breather left.
Your comment just stuck out because I wish I didn't have this situation!

[Rollo]

Star Jack, don't use the load population command. Instead, park the transport over the planet and use the transfer window (hotkey T) to pick up the oxy breather.

Rollo

[StarJack]

Rollo, Thank You!

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
CSMs are nukes.

Skulky has a point; some of the weapons in SE4 would do serious damage to a planet, perhaps to the point of rendering it unlivable even if you *didn't* kill everyone off.

Phoenix-D

Yeah, we've been requesting bombardment to do some damage to the planet itself for a long time. At the very least it ought to reduce conditions. But that would make the 'Radiation Bomb' less useful as a specialty weapon, so MM is not likely to do it.

[PvK]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
CSMs are nukes.

Skuly has a point; some of the weapons in SE4 would do serious damage to a planet, perhaps to the point of rendering it unlivable even if you *didn't* kill everyone off.

Phoenix-D

CSM's are supposed to be nukes but their damage and ammo levels don't really reflect that.

Also, consider the opposite end of the scale - depleted uranium cannon. Good luck killing anyone with a depleted uranium cannon from outside the atmosphere of a planet. Even inside the atmosphere, good luck hitting targets, and even if you hit with every shot, you'll never have enough ammo on a space ship to kill even one million people with them.

PvK

[capnq]

B wouldn't by chance be the Roman numeral for Million would it?

Nope. M = 1000 is the largest "digit" the Romans used. For inconveniently large numbers, they drew a line over the number to indicate "1000 times". So
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M = 1,000,000

[Phoenix-D]

"Good luck killing anyone with a depleted uranium cannon from outside the atmosphere of a planet."

Depends on how fast said cannon shot is moving. a hunk of whatever moving at .9C is going to do a lot of damage.. The DUC is probably pretty slow though.

Phoenix-D