Colony Ship Info

How many sleepers are in transit?

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     Okay, so I've started a brand new game and there sits my colony ship; but just how many colonists are on board?  The only way to find out is to orbit my homeworld and indeed there seems to be 2.50b (in spite of the fact that it looks as if it should be able to carry 5.00b).

 

    But my question is: how do I see how many colonists are on any given ship?  I prefer to start my colonies with 1.00b and then move more later, but once I get several out there at one time I know I'm going to lose track of which had how many.

 

     I'm also curious as to how you put 2.50 billion on one ship?  Can you imagine just how big that ship would be?  I know, I know: it's just a game (and I've been down this road before), but so was Outpost and you were hard pressed to put more that 200 (not b nor m or even k - just 200) on your one ship that was going to save the human race.

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Colonists shouldn't be on a colony ship while in orbit at all.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm also curious as to how you put 2.50 billion on one ship?  Can you imagine just how big that ship would be?  I know, I know: it's just a game (and I've been down this road before), but so was Outpost and you were hard pressed to put more that 200 (not b nor m or even k - just 200) on your one ship that was going to save the human race.
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Just for the fun of doing this. The largest ship according to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world's_longest_ships is 488m long. Now with the technology of hyperdrive they might solved the stasis problem and they can just boxed as merchandise (5th element, just cruder). If we said that each box is 2.5x1x0.5m (1.25m^3) and a cargo space would be 500x50x20m (500,000m^3) without considering engines and other things you could say that you can store 400,000 boxes. Now, a simple 500x500x500m can store 10,000,000 boxes. So, 200 is not a problem unless you wish to treat them as non storage things, sorry, people (Yor is easier, lol).

Now, there are other options that would satisfy the share quantity of 2.5B people: fast growing embryos, meat processors in which the store the knowledge/memory of the travelers and reconstitute their bodies as a meatballs, the colony ship is really a teleporter with a limited quantity of energy to do a mass recall (one module = 500m people teleported), they are de-materialized, stored as quantum energy and materialized in the new planet. Etc, etc, etc...

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting DARCA1213, reply 1

Colonists shouldn't be on a colony ship while in orbit at all.
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There not.  That's how I figured out how many were on the ship, because the planet's population went up that much.