I have a contract for 30 maintenance facilities from Earth to a planet in Epsilon Indi, but the civilians do not follow the contract as in the early stage of the game, can be because of the dangerous rating in Epsilon Indi?

Yes, a civilian ship will not initiate a trade run if the route includes a system with a danger rating above zero the total PPV of your fleets in the system.

The danger rating will decline gradually, so long as no further hostile activity occurs in that system.

I have a contract for 30 maintenance facilities from Earth to a planet in Epsilon Indi, but the civilians do not follow the contract as in the early stage of the game, can be because of the dangerous rating in Epsilon Indi?

Quote from: Warer on April 21, 2024, 06:46:46 AM

Reducing cryogenic transport modules capacity by a factor of ten (or some other number) would be an interesting option to slow down expansion, it always feels a little silly just how quickly you can move nearly arbitrary amounts of people to me.

Interesting.
Do you mean you can do this quickly from the game start, or do you mean that eventually you can move large amounts quickly?
It takes me decades of constant shipbuilding and shipyard expansion from the start to grow my colony ship fleet enough to merely keep up with the rate of pop growth on the HW.
Maybe after fifty years I have enough pop-moving capacity to really spread the population evenly among the HW and other major colonies.
Is that quickly? It seems a long time to me.

To be fair it's more from a preference point of view than a mechanical one, from a mechanics point of view colonization/population transport mechanics in this game are perfectly fine. I personally just find how quickly you can shift hundreds of millions and then billions of people and think it would interesting if settling the stars was a long drown out process over the course of centuries instead of TN tech get's discovered tomorrow and before I even retire Earth is ghost town type timeline you see in the game.

Also how quickly you can match your homeworlds pop growth rate depends on how distant the colonies your trying to settle are, for example, if you wanted to settle Luna (since colonies get a boosted pop growth rate compared to the Homeworld 9% vs 2%) a single ~100,000ton 250,000-300,000 thousand colonist capacity colony ship can match or even overmatch the pop growth of a HW with 1 billion people.

Training a XENO unit does not initiate Dormant Construct survey on the same body.


My HW (non-Sol start) has an Ancient Construct, which was dormant at game start.
After some years, I finally constructed a XENO ground unit.
I left the unit on the HW and waited for it to survey the construct.

And I waited.
And waited.
And waited.

After 9+ years of no results, I loaded the unit on a transport, and immediately unloaded the unit back to the surface.
Five months later, the construct was reported as surveyed.

So, it seems like the code only starts calculating construct survey chances after a XENO unit is unloaded onto the body.
Training a unit locally does not seem to trigger it.

Reducing cryogenic transport modules capacity by a factor of ten (or some other number) would be an interesting option to slow down expansion, it always feels a little silly just how quickly you can move nearly arbitrary amounts of people to me.