Cannot recolonize world harvested by Unbidden

[lovejw2]

I have 2 worlds that were harvested by the Unbidden, more then once, and now I cannot recolonize them. Is there anyway to fix this or will I have to just deal with it?

 

[Mitchz95]

Is there an error message? A reason you cannot colonize?

 

[lovejw2]

When you look at the surface of the planet, you see all the pops that were on the planet with no buildings, it also says that the planet has the starving modifier. But when you try to recolonize, it shows you that nothing is there but you can't place the colony ship

 

[henzington]

When you look at the surface of the planet, you see all the pops that were on the planet with no buildings, it also says that the planet has the starving modifier. But when you try to recolonize, it shows you that nothing is there but you can't place the colony ship

I would suggest making a post in the bug report section and uploading a save

 

[lovejw2]

I added it to a report that was already posted, Thanks

 

[lovejw2]

It has seemed to spread to 3 worlds that I had Ceded to me in a war. I added it to that bug report too. Very weird

 

[Almond_Brown]

You bombarded them?

 

[lovejw2]

The ones that it happened to that were ceded to me yes.

 

[Endless Rain]

Try using the console to kill all of the "ghost pops" on the planet. They were supposed to have been killed by the Unbidden, but your glitch prevented that from happening for some reason. You should be able to recolonize the planet once it doesn't have the "ghost pops" blocking all the tiles.

EDIT: Terraforming it might work as well if you can't use the console for some reason.

 

[Melabranche]

I posted not so long ago this bug:

- Fleets - If planet have primitives, but no shield, ships will idle over it endlessly. Some planets, after they where eaten by Unbidden, still have some pops - effect the same as primitive.

 

[lovejw2]

Try using the console to kill all of the "ghost pops" on the planet. They were supposed to have been killed by the Unbidden, but your glitch prevented that from happening for some reason. You should be able to recolonize the planet once it doesn't have the "ghost pops" blocking all the tiles.

EDIT: Terraforming it might work as well if you can't use the console for some reason.

How do I do that?

 

[Mitchz95]

How do I do that?

1) Open the console (the ` key, near the Escape key) and enter: debugtooltip
2) Mouse over the pop you want to kill, there should now be an ID number there (ID 15, for example).
3) In the console, enter: kill_pop [number]
4) Repeat steps 2-3 until all the unwanted pops are gone.
5) When you're done, enter debugtooltip again to disable the tooltips.

 

[lovejw2]

I cleared the planets and colonized them. Another interesting thing happened. The main empire that took over Unbidden space also had those same type planets, not it appears they don't. I also was dragged into a war that Liberated a planet from the attacking empire, first month after the war ended the new empire was there. THe second month started and the entire Empire and all the pops on the liberated planet disappeared.