Loading Colonists Bug in Beta 4C

When you load colonists and forget to hit the lauch button, then leave the planet.. the colonists loaded dissapear forever into the void.
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Reply #1 Top
well if you want to raise your morale by displacing a few colonists :D

maybe when you get to beyond human you'll find them there :D

rich
Reply #3 Top
Um, I'm not seeing this. When I click elsewhere without hitting the launch button again, it launches my ship anyway with the colonists on the ship.
Reply #4 Top
I haven't seen the first bug, but there are two problems with the new behavior--1) sometimes the colony ship ends up on top of the star instead of next to it; and 2) there is no way to cancel a launch--I used to hit "next" or "done" as a way of cancelling a colony ship launch I decided not to go ahead with. Now you can't back out.

-Robert
Reply #5 Top
While we're on the topic of colony ships, would it be possible to change the behavior of the left/right scrolling arrows so that if the mouse click is held, the number of colonists increases/decreases as long as the button is held? I had a planet with a huge population, and the smallest increment of colonists I could get was over 500M (obviously I wanted something smaller). Clicking on the arrows only changes 1 per click. Thanks.
Reply #6 Top
I've just seen this happen in beta 4D. To reproduce the problem, 2 colony ships need to be completed in the same star system on the same turn. Launch both while in the colony view screen during the beginning of the turn and only a single one will make it onto the main screen.