Excess Colony Ships - What to do?

exactly the same way as you would an unsettled planet.

cheers

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bah i kill em off or use em for scouts

Yeah even if you're good you get no penalty for dumping them into space. If you get enough of them you can use them to fence off sectors.


~SDC~

sell the ship (colonists and all) to another civ as slaves.

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Librarian:

As Hor said, simple move the colony ship to any inhabitable planet (even one already settled, such as its origin system). Once there, you can "re-land" the colonists using the planet sidebar (F2). Mouse-over the planet you want, and the cursor will change to a colony vessel; click and you will add its people back to your Pop.

~SDC~

Never sell population: you'll need all you can get during warfare. That population can be transferred to a transport for invasions.

Go find a third-rate planet (PQ 13-14) and colonise it. If you get a PQ bonus event and don't mind a little evil, great! If you don't get an event, disband the colony at once. This is of course best done with small number of colonists.

BTW the game checks for colonisation events every time you land... so you can land, disband, land, disband until you get a good event. Very cheesy and not very rewarding unless you are really short on good planets or unless you are desperate to shift your alignment.

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Librarian,

Another idea...

On larger maps, you can (eventually) obtain enough +Morale bonuses (through SB modules, life resource mining & social improvements) that even "standard" planets (i.e., PQ20-25) can safely hold up to 50B people! Up-load your excess population to a colony ship early game, when you are building your infrastructure and having problems maintaining morale due to overpopulation. Park it somewhere. Late-game (before you are about to win), return your colonists. Your planet(s) will be able to absorb them at that time, and you will obtain a higher MV score for having a greater population!

~SDC~

I keep reading about people spacing their colonists due to morale problems. I never have morale problems. What am I doing right or what is everybody else doing wrong?

~SDC~

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Jubala,

Running Imperial, morale is relatively insignificant, and you can keep taxes >60 & some planets 50 (and, actually, >60 is preferable) will lead to a very big I-League, very soon.

Also, if you are playing War Party or not taking any +Morale bonus points as a Civ trait, overpopulation can get out of hand on the better PQ planets in the early game. Since Combat TR's take a while to research and are (generally) not yet available, Colony Ships are the best solution. They can embark unlimited numbers of surplus citizens.

All that said, if you are aware of the problem and still not encountering the need to embark excess populace, then I'd say you're playing the game right! Whatever you're doing is exactly the correct thing to do...Congrats!

(P.S. You might want to post your strategy here for the benefit of newer players who haven't yet developed a more elegant solution than the 1-way tour of Saturn. I myself could certainly use some improvement in this area of the game! Thx.)

~SDC~

EDIT:

Sorry, for some reason my WP randomly deletes entire lines of text when I post. My first 2 paragraphs should read:

"Running Imperial, morale is relatively insignificant, and you can keep taxes >60 & some planets 50 (and, actually, >60 is preferable) will lead to a very big I-League, very soon."


~SDC~

EDIT:

OK, it's not my word processor...it's this board. For some reason, it doesn't like quotation marks and parenthesis. (It might also have something to do with the refresh rate of the postings...I notice that whenever this happens, my screen "jumps" and I lose text).

Anyway, let's try this again:

"Running Imperial, morale is relatively insignificant, and you can keep taxes >60 & some planets 50 (and, actually, >60 is preferable) will lead to a very big I-League, very soon."





~SDC~

EDIT:

OK, if the third time's not the charm, you'll just have to use ESP to divine what I'm trying to say...

"Running Imperial, morale is relatively insignificant, and you can keep taxes >60 & some planets under 50 without significant penalty.

However, at the higher levels of governance (especially Star Federation), failure to keep any planet over 50 (and, actually, >60 is preferable) will lead to a very big I-League, very soon."




~SDC~

Def Zep, it came up right each and every time for me... Must be your system?

TFM

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I only saw it correctly on the third post, as Def suggests.

So whatever problem he has, I've got too

colonize horrible PQ 1 planets and give them to your enemies - they will love you and collapse and get unrest and all.

Def,
I assume you were using a less than symbol instead of "under" and a greater than symbol instead of "over" (which you could have left in, btw). Then, the board ate it like it was an html tag. It seems to have been eaten at the submission stage; using "Show source" on my browser doesn't show anything different. I'm not sure how TFM is seeing it correctly. As a quick test:

1)
2) This is not in lt & gt.

If line 1 is blank, then that's what happened