Uplift - need to colonize world with them or bug?

[Bryartuck]

Droids also work unless something changed since last time I played with them.

Yes, droids and synths can colonize, robots cannot.

 

[The Founder]

Just to avoid a mistunderstanding: Basic robots cannot. You need synthetics to make colony ship.

Droids also work unless something changed since last time I played with them.

I jsut checked again in teh files and nothing seems to have changed:
T2 and T3 robots can colonize thanks to being flagged wiht "pops_can_be_colonizers = yes".
T1 Robots can not colonise.

 

[PanzerBjorn]

Why are you uplifting these tasty snacks?

Do you still get the xenophage penalty if they are pre-sentient?

1) With the Utopia update and combined food for your entire Empire, even with modest food production I'm easily sitting at +40 to +60 per month in food supply with only 10 planets. Tasty snacks out of sentient or pre-sentient beings would be wasted food.

2) It goes against my Egalitarian and Xenophile ideals to eat the people I want to dupe into working for me through the promise of equality and friendship. NOW GET BACK IN THAT MINE!

 

[The Founder]

1) With the Utopia update and combined food for your entire Empire, even with modest food production I'm easily sitting at +40 to +60 per month in food supply with only 10 planets. Tasty snacks out of sentient or pre-sentient beings would be wasted food.

Excess food while at storage cap is translated into Growth. And you could increase the storage policy for securities sake.

 

[Gennadios]

Just noticed this change with the Utopia update, I forget what the last version I played was, but it was possible back then and this change is stupid.

Either allow observation stations on pre-sentients or allow science ships to undertake uplift missions.