| Populated, uninhabited planets? |
Mon, 28 July 2003 05:54  |
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I've been trying to wrap my head around how this happened.. and so far I've not yet found a way to duplicate this.. But can anyone tell me how a planet can have a population AND be uninhabied.. I know it's possible.. It happened by accident during a game I was in.. I've even got the M file to prove it.. Plus a picture.. The historical data for the planet is vague.. All that could be determined was a frieghter coming to drop 1200kt of colonits arrived sometime before.. or.. after a PP packet annihilated the whole population. Since turn gens were by 5 year incraments, and half the historical data is missing... I've not been able to recreate the event.... But the planet was not colonizable (caused an error to the client when saving the X file) But the population was easily accessable, and seemed to have grown yet still read 0 colonits...
This ever happened to anyone else??? If so can you explain how it happened please???
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| Re: Populated, uninhabited planets? |
Tue, 29 July 2003 22:26  |
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No.. the orginal owner was an SS..
And I've played with the bug you speak of quite a bit. And actually what happens is the population does to funny things after hit spikes passed 2 billion. And what happens there is it really does keep going up and up and at that point the people that normally are dying off because of overcrowding... Well they stop dying and the population can actually grow on it's own after 2 billion.. I had a planet that got upto 800 billion before (how can I tell? Cargo display shows the TRUE number of people on a planet and it never goes negative.. That's how)
But No.... It was an SS a PP and who knows whom else was involved. But the result was a planet that says "uninhabited" acts like an uninhabited planet, has 0 stated colonts, yet when a freighter is in orbit, colonists are on the surface and.. Appear, to grow down there. Which to say the least is confusing. I'd like to have studied this phenomina further but I couldn't recreate it in the "Lab" as it were...
Thanks for the imput though.. Anything else? Anyone?
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| Re: Populated, uninhabited planets? |
Thu, 31 July 2003 04:23 |
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Tiny addendum look at Jones.. It doesn't have a freighter in orbit to verify that it's got a stealth population like Schwiiing does, but if you click on it, you can see the surface minerals without 1) a population on the planet 2) any kind of ship in orbit.
The same is true of Schwiiing but at least in that case you can see kinda the reason why. (it's still inhabited.. Sorta.)
I've noticed that this effect was perpetrated by the same race nearly or on the same year. (2 packets hit and killed 2 planets leaving these ghost populations.) Ooo creepy, and yet, almost cool.
This has to have happened to someone.. Right?
[Updated on: Thu, 31 July 2003 04:25]
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| Re: Populated, uninhabited planets? |
Sat, 09 August 2003 21:57 |
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Isn't anyone going to make some conjecture about the data? I gave you the files to look over.. Not that you can do much but look.. But the whole history is there.. and 2 planets are affected.. Can anyone tell me if this has happened before??? And if so HOW!
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