That's for civilian shipping lines and does not affect player-controlled colony ships.

The colony needs either a spaceport or a cargo shuttle station, or each colony ship needs its own cargo shuttles. Sounds like covered all iterations (save&load, construction cycle) so this does sound like something being wonky.

I'm not an expert on this game but in the economics screen, tab "civilian/flags" you can set a colony as "source of colonists", "destination of colonists" or "stable".
However, if the population is less than 10 million, you can only select "destination of colonists".

Cheers! I'll use temporary waypoints, then.

Now I'm curious what these tank "companies" look like

Just 250-ton things for transport and I'm merging ten of them together to form a tank unit. Probably will add another ten later.

R.I.P. good ol' P-for-pursuit designation

I was seriously thinking of going with the older designations, including Pursuit but decided against it as it would have been anachronistic at that point.

I'm curious about why? Usually I find it's easier to keep a fixed ratio between cargo and colony ships

Ah but these are fighters. So the amount they can carry is quite small in any case and I'm not really using convoys, there's no need for math. Any large movement will take weeks or months anyway so I'm mostly winging it.

R.I.P. lucky number 13.

Space Age America is still superstitious!

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1960

Soviet surveyors had now found gaseous Sorium in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Neptune had not been surveyed. If this gaseous Sorium could somehow be harvested and refined, the USSR would never run out of fuel for starships. In January, they built another research lab, for a total of 18. Commonwealth had 10 and the United States had 18. In February, the US improved the efficiency of their maintenance facilities to such an extent that their capability reached 62,500 tons without adding any new facilities - though this would not be enough to cover all the new shuttles that the Pentagon wanted to build.

On 15th July, the Joint Space Command officially marks its first spaceborne combat squadrons operationally ready:




Kremlin has monitored the growing American space power with concern - there are, after all, only 30 Krivaks in space and the Americans now have 48 combat shuttles. However, as there currently are no crises between the two superpowers, the Soviets are content to wait until advances in armour, sensors and powerplants allow them to commit to a technological leap ahead. Meanwhile, Washington is struggling with the maintenance issue. There are barely enough facilities to keep everything running smoothly but there is no room for expansion. The situation could be improved if the obsolete shuttles could be dismantled and Pentagon issues requests to industry partners to that effect. Perhaps some sort of salvage craft could be built to safely dismantle the shuttles in orbit?

In August, the Commonwealth first Spaceport is opened. In the same month, Soviet scientists demonstrate High-Density Duranium Armour and the competing design bureaus get to work. Their work results in four competing models based on the older Krivak designs:

Krivak-M2-10B1 class Gunship      240 tons       3 Crew       17.9 BP       TCS 5    TH 18    EM 0
3647 km/s      Armour 1-3       Shields 0-0       HTK 1      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 0-0      PPV 0.98
Maint Life 28.06 Years     MSP 34    AFR 5%    IFR 0.1%    1YR 0    5YR 1    Max Repair 8.8 MSP
Kapitan tret'yego ranga    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 days    Morale Check Required   

Glushko RD-107 (1)    Power 17.5    Fuel Use 724.72%    Signature 17.5    Explosion 17%
Fuel Capacity 23,500 Litres    Range 2.4 billion km (7 days at full power)

Yurga MBP 100mm T-10 Gun 1A10 (1)    Range 10,000km     TS: 3,647 km/s     Power 0.75-0.5     RM 10,000 km    ROF 10       
Sapphire Gun Sight N001 (1)     Max Range: 30,000 km   TS: 625 km/s    ECCM-0     10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NPO Energomash  PWR-Generator/052 (1)     Total Power Output 0.5    Exp 10%

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
This design is classed as a Fighter for auto-assignment purposes
Extremely fast but with a weak gun and limited range, the 10B1 version would be suitable for interceptor duty.

Krivak-M2-10B2 class Gunship      260 tons       3 Crew       19 BP       TCS 5    TH 18    EM 0
3366 km/s      Armour 1-3       Shields 0-0       HTK 1      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 0-0      PPV 1.65
Maint Life 14.77 Years     MSP 14    AFR 5%    IFR 0.1%    1YR 0    5YR 2    Max Repair 8.8 MSP
Kapitan tret'yego ranga    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 days    Morale Check Required   

Glushko RD-107 (1)    Power 17.5    Fuel Use 724.72%    Signature 17.5    Explosion 17%
Fuel Capacity 1,700 Litres    Range 0.16 billion km (13 hours at full power)

Yurga MBP 100mm T-10 Gun 2A10 (1x2)    Range 10,000km     TS: 3,366 km/s     Power 1.5-1     RM 10,000 km    ROF 10       
Sapphire Gun Sight N001 (1)     Max Range: 30,000 km   TS: 625 km/s    ECCM-0     10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NPO Energomash  PWR-Generator/100 (1)     Total Power Output 1    Exp 10%

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
This design is classed as a Fighter for auto-assignment purposesAlmost as fast but with an extremely limited range, the 10B2 version would only be suitable for combat inside the Cis-Lunar space.

Krivak-M2-10B3 class Gunship      350 tons       4 Crew       25.2 BP       TCS 7    TH 18    EM 0
2500 km/s      Armour 1-4       Shields 0-0       HTK 2      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 0-0      PPV 2.33
Maint Life 17.62 Years     MSP 34    AFR 10%    IFR 0.1%    1YR 0    5YR 3    Max Repair 8.8 MSP
Kapitan tret'yego ranga    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 days    Morale Check Required   

Glushko RD-107 (1)    Power 17.5    Fuel Use 724.72%    Signature 17.5    Explosion 17%
Fuel Capacity 37,800 Litres    Range 2.7 billion km (12 days at full power)

Yurga MBP 100mm T-10 Gun 3A10 (1x3)    Range 10,000km     TS: 2,500 km/s     Power 2.25-1.5     RM 10,000 km    ROF 10       
Sapphire Gun Sight N001 (1)     Max Range: 30,000 km   TS: 625 km/s    ECCM-0     10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NPO Energomash  PWR-Generator/150 (1)     Total Power Output 1.5    Exp 10%

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
This design is classed as a Fighter for auto-assignment purposesClearly slower but still impressively fast in comparison to old shuttles, the 10B3 version could at least strike at American craft in the inner system and they would be hard pressed to escape its three guns.

Krivak-M2-10B4 class Gunship      400 tons       5 Crew       28.9 BP       TCS 8    TH 18    EM 0
2187 km/s      Armour 1-4       Shields 0-0       HTK 2      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 0-0      PPV 3
Maint Life 24.04 Years     MSP 104    AFR 13%    IFR 0.2%    1YR 0    5YR 5    Max Repair 8.8 MSP
Kapitan tret'yego ranga    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 days    Morale Check Required   

Glushko RD-107 (1)    Power 17.5    Fuel Use 724.72%    Signature 17.5    Explosion 17%
Fuel Capacity 36,700 Litres    Range 2.3 billion km (12 days at full power)

Yurga MBP 100mm T-10 Gun 4A10 (1x4)    Range 10,000km     TS: 2,187 km/s     Power 3-2     RM 10,000 km    ROF 10       
Sapphire Gun Sight N001 (1)     Max Range: 30,000 km   TS: 625 km/s    ECCM-0     10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NPO Energomash  PWR-Generator/203 (1)     Total Power Output 2    Exp 10%

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
This design is classed as a Fighter for auto-assignment purposesFinally, the 10B4 version has the most firepower with its quad cannon and while its range is just as limited and it is somewhat slower, it can maintain a steady rate of fire long enough to outlast even the most grueling combat scenarios. Kremlin decides to take no action yet and urges the design bureaus to refine their designs a bit more.

In November, Earth runs out of Tritanium. USA has been moving mines to Luna but the Soviet colony is far too small to support mines, a fact that Kremlin wants to change as soon as possible. The year ends with the third American wave of Lunar colonization - the first wave hit 5 million inhabitants, second wave reached 10 million and the goal of the third wave is to reach 15 million - half of whom will work in the mining industry and the other half keeping them alive, healthy and happy as only Capitalism can achieve!

I'm hesitant to call it a bug, but it sounds like one, at least. I drop 200,000 colonists on a new colony, but then realize there is a tiny bit of insufficient infrastructure for them (by a factor of 10), so I order to load back 180,000 and... nothing happens, even after 10 days. I move back and forth to another moon, save and restart the game, redo the order, but still nothing happens. My colony ships definitely have transport shuttles.

Any explanation other than a bug?