How do you know when you are a newbie?

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Narrew:
how did the planet get zero pop in the first place? I mean can you colonize with no people on the colony ship?

No you cannot. You have to load population onto the colony ship first. I bet what you did is ordered the ship to "move to" the planet and then colonize. If the ship is in orbit of the planet you built it at and you select the "Colonize" button instead of the move to order, then it will automatically load the population. But if you select "Move to" first and then do the colonize button, you have to manually load the population onto the ship. We've all made this mistake many times.