SE IV Colonization question

do you have population on the colony ship when it is underway??
if you use the colonize order it automaticaly picks up population in the sector it is then, but if you first fly around without manualy adding population to the ship it will create an empty colony.

population migration then (if that feature is in SEIV) only works if it has the same atmosphere as your own race uses.

Neither of the features you mention were in SE:IV. Colony ships have to be manually ordered to pick up population (I do remember that, rarely, the ship would pick up population by itself, but I never could trust it to). Population transports are the only way to get population from one planet to another in SE:IV, there is no migration.

So, just have your colony ship pick up the population from whatever planet you feel has the spare population you need, then give it the colonization order.

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Ships will always, without fail, pick up population if they are in orbit of a planet and you order them to colonize another. Load population is always assigned as an order by the colonize button (you get a load pop, then a move to, then a colonize order). The load pop does nothing when the ship is not orbiting a colony, which is why the colony ship sent to explore first will have no pop.

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I believe you can set the data files in SEIV to have 1M pop automatically on a colony ship. This is in the data files somewhere.

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I'm not sure if this works in SEIV, but in SEV, it can be a good idea to place cargo containers on all your colony ships. While the colony module will hold 10m people, you can get the number up to 15 oe 20 million with cargo containers fitted. The extra pop provides a useful springboard that helps a colony grow faster.

Yes, in SEIV a Colony Ship hull has enough leftover space to add one Cargo Bay, raising the carrying capacity from 4M to 34M. That's my standard design for colonizers if they don't need some other specialized component for a particular situation.

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Not to mention you can use non-colony ship hulls (in either game) to stick loads of pop on a colony ship.

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