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While it would be an interesting feature, I've not seen any indication that Steve is looking at adding this.
Regarding that, I do really hope that free-floating colonies without planets eventually become a thing. I think they would make sense, there would be a lot of benefits, and it would be a cool thing if you eventually had most of your civilization in space because of said benefits.
First time I am using Orbital habitat. I want to use it for mining Venus. So I built an OH with only habitat modules pop cap 600,000. Towed it to Venus. Now I have no colony at Venus. So I create a colony. Then my civilian ships bring pop over to Venus and put them on the ground and they die. No one goes into the Orbital Habitat. What is going on? In the colony summary display it shows orbital pop capacity . 6 million. But no one goes up there they all go to the surface and die. How do I set this up so they live on the orbital not on the surface?
I dont think that checkbox is actually required for it to work
Ok It is working now. Not sure what fixed it. I did remove the colony and created a new colony on Venus after I sent a second Orbital habitat to Venus. So the pop cap is now 1. 2 million at Venus. And now it is all working. Perhaps pop caps under 1 million caused my issue? Or it was just bugged and a reset fixed it. I was thinking I did miss something when I set it up the first time. I thought perhaps the Orbital habitat needed to be anchored to the colony somehow. That was why I asked how this is supposed to work. Guess I was over thinking it.
Perhaps pop caps under 1 million caused my issue?