[1.0.0] Colony Ships built in Sectors do not show up in outliner

[Jorlem]

As stated in the title, a colony ship built within a sector does not show up in the outliner. This makes using alien colonists somewhat annoying, as you need to remember where you had commissioned the ships, and keep checking back to see if they are done. Also, I think they might be draining my energy for upkeep, even if they aren't in the outliner.

 

[gunnarbr]

I have the same problem.

If I click "Colonize" when in the planet view, I get a list of all the colony ships, including the ones in sectors. Still annoying, but maybe a little less

 

[Bromista]

It seems that this is because the colony ship ends up owned by the sector, rather than the player. But it's still controllable by the player for some reason.

 

[Chrescerya]

Would be nice to see them in outliner cause only way to notice it is build is when your credits plummet and you see 2-3 colony ship doing nothing

 

[jgerofi]

I want to bump this back to the top, because it's still the case in 1.0.2 (for me at least).

 

[KiwiNoob]

+1 still in 1.0.3

 

[schedim]

I thought it was a irritating design choice, but whatever the reason are it also affects construction ships ...

But we can hardly get this fixed in a hotfix, I guess ...

 

[Meatpopsicle]

There's also another issue, you can't control how they react i.e. change their movement behavior to ignore enemies in system. Meaning they'll always retreat from a star if it's got hostiles in it.

 

[SunderSion]

yep.. I built a colony ship on a sector controlled space station and it did not show up in my outliner... are we not supposed to have control over sector owned spacestation construction queue?

 

[Xionor]

Same here. I have to remember where I started to build Colony Ships if i want to use them later.

 

[Chrescerya]

There's also another issue, you can't control how they react i.e. change their movement behavior to ignore enemies in system. Meaning they'll always retreat from a star if it's got hostiles in it.

You can you have icon for that, click on it and changes from evade to passive

 

[Chrescerya]

Same here. I have to remember where I started to build Colony Ships if i want to use them later.

On a planet you can click colonize and it sows all pops in colony ships and you can chose which you want, so far I notice the colony ships in sectors also pop up (but only tested once, so more testing needed to confirm)

 

[Chrescerya]

I thought it was a irritating design choice, but whatever the reason are it also affects construction ships ...

But we can hardly get this fixed in a hotfix, I guess ...

hotfixes are mainly to address critical issues, not really annoyances. But so far I heard patch 1.1 is coming out during next week in beta, looking forward to see what's in there and should have lot of improvements to sectors

 

[Chrescerya]

As stated in the title, a colony ship built within a sector does not show up in the outliner. This makes using alien colonists somewhat annoying, as you need to remember where you had commissioned the ships, and keep checking back to see if they are done. Also, I think they might be draining my energy for upkeep, even if they aren't in the outliner.

Yes colony ships even if not in outliner drain energy, but you should be able to colonize with them from the planet itself
select the planet go to summary, press 'colonize' button and should display all colony ships

 

[Meatpopsicle]

You can you have icon for that, click on it and changes from evade to passive

It doesn't work ! It says "you do not have control over this ship"

 

[killroy_is_thechauffeur]

Yes, it's a known bug in this forum that colony ships built by spaceports in systems belonging to a sector are not found in the outliner. As mentioned above you still have to use this colony ship manually by selecting planets -> click the "colonize" button -> select the colony ship (with description of the POPs on that ship) from the list.

I guess they will change this somehow soon.

 

[Jorlem]

Yes colony ships even if not in outliner drain energy, but you should be able to colonize with them from the planet itself
select the planet go to summary, press 'colonize' button and should display all colony ships

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