Population Disappearing?

[jkmoss]

I sent a transport/colony ship with 704M colonists to a huge world, but when the colony was established, there were only 500M colonists on it...is this a bug or a feature?

[Aristoi]

Was the colony breathable for you? The maximum size of a domed colony is 500 million. Most likely what happened is that the 500M were transfered, then there was nowhere else for the rest to go so they disappeared.

[jkmoss]

Yep, it was breathable. I'm playing a game with that as the only colonisable option.

[Aristoi]

There might be a limit on the maximum size of initial colonization. I've never actually made a colony ship that big. Anyone else know?

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, a colony without population acts as domed, so what probably happens is:

-colony is created empty.
-cargo is transferred lump-sum.
-colony is no longer empty, and domes dissapear, but the colony ship is gone and the 207M people are lost.

I would suggest that you use the extra space beyond 500M people on the colony ship to carry a weapon platform or mines for the new colony to deploy as soon as it is created, since they will go into the planetary cargo space, and not be lost.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 03 June 2001).]

[dominion]

There is a cap in the initial population size for colonization (e.g., 100 million initial colonizing but 500 million capacity max for a breathable tiny planet).
Tiny - 100
Small - 200
Medium - 300
Large - 400
Huge - 500
You shouldn't supply more than that # of people on the ship. Put some mines/fighters/satellites in the extra cargo space.

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[This message has been edited by dominion (edited 03 June 2001).]