Minor bug: Can't Launch 'People Movers' Empty

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Very Minor annoyance:

You cannot launch Transports or Colony Ships if they are empty. You must put in at least 1 pop point. This is annoying if you are using a specialized planet to build ships and want to ferry them to another planet to load from.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Not a bug, but a design decision.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
my problem isnt that you cant send them empty but that the slider to luanch them is from 0-X and if you select 0 it wont luanch.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Presumably somebody has to steer...


rofl... yes, you see, the way these ships move is they have 1 million people hanging from the tail fins. There would be a captain who would yell out directions, and the people hanging off of them would do the wave with their bodies, thus steering the ships.


Joking aside, I believe it was done this way to prevent you from being able to colonize a planet with 0 people. That would be strange indeed. The transport simply reused the colonyship's population loading routines, thus why it is the way it is. It's really not that big of a deal, one extra click isn't THAT bad, there are far worse problems.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
yeah, i've seen this too... after delivering population to a planet, i wanted to send the ship back empty to get more... nope.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top


Making 1 the minimum on the slider, and making it the default when the window opens would be great . As I said, this is more of an annoyance than anything else - it is more than one mouse click as it stands, you have to set the slider to one first - making it a simple one click process would be a better interface design, IMHO. Just wanted to point it out - as a new player it was a bit frustrating figuring out how to launch the ship.

Great game though - played for 12 hours yesterday while I was home from work sick with the flu - definately has the "Just One More Turn" thing going on.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No I like the default being the way it is... set to max capacity. I'll agree with you on the minimum should be 1 not 0.

And if you right click the blue icons they auto-launch your ships.