It seems like every time I start a new colony, it never fully grows. There's always a bar underneath the planet name that's a 1/4 from the end. Am I missing something here?

I'm not sure exactly what kind of "grow" you mean but it could be one out of two things I guess:



1. Population growth - it's largely dependent on food. With the proper planet exploitation selected and the food improvements built, the population should be rapidly growing.

2. Time needed for the newly colonized planet to go from outpost status to colony status - once you tell your colony ship to colonize a planet, it creates an outpost. It takes 30 turns for the transition from an outpost to a colony to be complete. When you click on the system you can see the time left in turns



Edit: I just noticed you're talking about a bar under a planet not under a system, I don't have the game opened right now so I'm not sure which bar you're talking about.

The Bar represents the defenses of your colony. if it gets besieged by a fleet the right side will be filled with the fleets faction colour. you will just have to wait until its filled out for you. There are some defensive system improvements, and some of those also fasten this process.

Raptor wrote:


2. Time needed for the newly colonized planet to go from outpost status to colony status - once you tell your colony ship to colonize a planet, it creates an outpost. It takes 30 turns for the transition from an outpost to a colony to be complete. When you click on the system you can see the time left in turns

This was the information I was looking for. Sorry my description was a bit off.



Edit: Forgot to say thanks.

You're welcome



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