Posted by: bitbucket
« on: September 09, 2016, 10:12:38 PM »Quote from: byron link=topic=7260. msg96764#msg96764 date=1473446984
That's not right. They'll transport colonists anywhere with excess infrastructure. I've had colony ships take off towards a planet I had just found infrastructure on in ruins. (Annoying) And demand for infrastructure starts really early, too. Maybe at 10,000 people. It's all the other types of trade which take a substantial population to trigger.
The civilian shipping lines will send colonists anywhere there's space to squeeze more people into. Put down infrastructure and they'll bring people to fill it right away. If there's a pregenerated zero-colony-cost planet in a star system, civilians will start shipping people there the instant a jump gate is built to it. There just seems to be something about unpopulated worlds that could be populated that make them high-priority targets for shipping lines.