Ok hi first of this is my first session with endless space just gone throu the tuturials etc and found my first colonisable system i sucsessfully colonised the planet but now my colony ship has gone ?? i must of missed something in the tuturial are colony ships one time use ??

many thanks Darren

Yeah you´re right with your suggestion colony ships are just onetime use in each colony ship are some people and if you colonize a system then get thesse people off and start to found a new colony but this last a few turns

if you wnat to colonize a new system you have to build a new one but to do this you have to "sacrifice" one opulation:

you also can colonize a planet in a System having already one colonized planet but to do this you also have to use one opulation:



Hope I could help you

Beefhater

Beefhater wrote:
if you wnat to colonize a new system you have to build a new one but to do this you have to "sacrifice" one opulation:

If you can make enough space, you can design a colony with multiple colony modules. In that case building it will remove the same number of opulation: as colony modules from the building system, and the new colony will start with that number of opulation:.



EDIT: The OP should also note that you don't need to build a colony ship to colonise a planet in a system that already has a colony. You can just select that planet and select the colonise build item for it. Just in case you didn't know.

The colony ship "costs" 1 population to create for each "seed module" you eqip it with. You can then colonize a planet with it OR move population from one planet to another (crucial to make a system productive faster). Simply travel to the system - the colonize option in the fleet menu will be active - you can then "colonize" the already colonized planet.



If you have a colony in a system already, and your planet has more than 1 population you can double click another planet in the system - in the left upper corner below the planet info you will see the colonize planet option. It will be colonized by taking 1 pop from your original planet.



Most likely you will end up having a single planet system with good food production producing colony ships constantly to improve low food worlds.

Why the surprise? I'm not aware of any 4X game besides SotS2 (which is a particular case with it's fleet missions) which would let you keep your colony ship after it has been used...

Maybe it's his first 4x game.

yeah my first 4x game sorry should of clarifyed that my bad

and thanks for all the tips guys well underway with my colony plans now