Colonizing other systems

[Richard]

You need to transfer some population there initially. What I do is put a cargo hold in the ship and then before load some population for the colony.

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[Lerchey]

Another thing to keep in mind. The default colony module carrys 4 m people. Some planets, though "colonizable" just flat out SUCK. Because of this, there *appears* to be a minimum required population to survive. I've had colonies on planets with the 4m starting, and next turn, they were toast. I then used transports to drop 20m or so on them, and they did just fine. I have not seen the code, but this has happened in a number of games, and I just thought it was a feature.
<shrug>

John

[Mike Tremblay]

There's lots of neat little things you can do when you design your ships using SE's component system. One of the advantages of having played SE3 is that I have a better understanding of how the ship design system works for SE4 - this helps since there is relatively little help, unless you go to Malfador's site and read the Q&A's or visit this forum, in playing the demo (must be frustrating for newbies).

This is probably the best ship designing system I have seen for this type of game - far and above the next competitor MOO2.

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Mike Tremblay
"Bitter Mike"

[AaronEdward]

Wingte, if you've been to a new system through the warp point, and have a map, you can simply select your colony ship and then change systems without losing the command interface for that ship, then instruct it to colonize a planet in that system, or you can manually load population and then colonize. personally, I colonize with the basics, a cargo facility, and then follow up with a medium transport under minister's control. The advantage of this is the transport operates on it's own, without micro-management, and the size of the colony grows almost immediatly without spending tons of credits on large colony ships. A colony ship is taken apart and used for the colony, but a population transport is reused.

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[dumbluck]

The oldest post. cool

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