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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: dakillakan on July 27, 2012, 09:33:30 PM

Title: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: dakillakan on July 27, 2012, 09:33:30 PM
As a new player I foolishly started a colony on Venus.   Now all civilian infrastructure goes there, and I have been manually shipping it elsewhere.   Is there any way to turn off the colony, It will not let me ban it and it automatically makes it a destination for colonists.
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: xeryon on July 27, 2012, 09:49:24 PM
You could abandon it?
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Erik L on July 27, 2012, 09:57:55 PM
On the Economic screen, select it and at the bottom click Abandon.
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Herode on July 29, 2012, 07:51:13 AM
NB : Abandoning a colony also means losing all the stuff you built/moves there.

I made a similar mistake trying to set a colony on Titan. The experimet proves to be far too expensive, as Titan did not concealed any interesting minerals. So I decided to move the colonists to Mercury (another experiment ^^). But the Titan colony screen shows that this moon is still a detsination for colonists, thus civilian transports keep moving unfortunate peaple to Titan. Is there any way for me to set the status to "please dear colonists, go elsewhere if you don't mind because I will soon move the infrastrucure away and you will uncomfortably die" ?
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Haji on July 29, 2012, 09:58:58 AM
On a "civilian/ind status" tab you can set whether a planet is a destination or source of colonists. If you don't want people to arrive to a planet, just set it to "source of colonists" or "stable".
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Rabid_Cog on July 29, 2012, 12:21:09 PM
As far as I know, you can only do that as soon as it has above a certain minimum colonists. So let the bastards die, its not like you will really have a shortage of people.
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Herode on July 29, 2012, 01:56:34 PM
OK, it's because most colonists have already leaved the planet that I can't access to these radio-buttons, then. Sounds like a bug, no ? After all, ther's no reason why I could not forbid colonists to reach a planet if that planet has less than (whatever) population.

Anyway, the Abandon Plan has been set. Sad to see that people stop unresting only when they have no commodities left. Don't they like commodities ?  ::)
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Person012345 on July 29, 2012, 04:31:57 PM
you can also set the source of colonists to be stable. This will halt people leaving the home planet and if no-one can leave the home planet they also can't arrive on the colony.
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Herode on July 29, 2012, 04:54:45 PM
Well, no : the 'stable' option is grayed (disabled).
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Steve Walmsley on July 29, 2012, 05:57:55 PM
Quote from: Herode on July 29, 2012, 04:54:45 PM
Well, no : the 'stable' option is grayed (disabled).

You can only set the Stable option once the population reaches 25 million.

Steve
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Person012345 on July 29, 2012, 06:08:43 PM
Quote from: Herode on July 29, 2012, 04:54:45 PM
Well, no : the 'stable' option is grayed (disabled).
On your home planet?
Title: Re: How do I stop colony growth
Post by: Herode on July 30, 2012, 04:10:22 AM
Oops, sorry : I skipped the 'home' part of your message...

Could be a good idea earlier in the game but right now (2059) I have several colonies and I don't want to handle the flow of people manually. Doesn't matter, I'll keep the suggestion for my next game if needed :)