Load Transport?

Double click on the star that has the transports. Somewhere in the bottom right, you should see some icons for your transports. Double click one of them. Move the slider to raise or lower the number of troops you want on it. Click launch to launch the transport.

Loading transports is a real pain the @!#%$.

The computer somehow assumes that I might possibly want to build a combat transport and spend money on invasion tactics, but not load every single available person onto it.

I rarely have ultra-high population until endgame, and frequently have to manually load dozens of transports.

(Yes, I can remember one "invasion" with about 6 ships that ended up having about 1 billion people total... that war didn't go well)

The default should be max load.

The last time I played I set the ships to auto-launch and noticed that transports were auto-launching with a full crew.

Maybe you should try that.

I think Transports/Colony Ships load a percentage of the current population when set to auto-launch. I'm not sure on this, but it has been my experience. So the higher your planet's population the more civlians/troops will be loaded on automatically.

~SDC~

yes thats right 50% I think . . .

or 50% of max capacity

My last game was a perfect example.

I did a global swap from Constructors to Combat Transports when war broke out.

Capital planets put out max loads.

but I had a BUNCH of planets with awful loads.

I had one with like 48 million, but lots with 1-4 billion.

So when I invade with 15 ships thinking I have a huge army, it's really not that many troops.

The other dumb thing is the transports don't reconfigure... like you'd think if you had 10 transports but only 6 billion people lost on the invasion... you'd only be down 2 transports, right?

No, since they are loaded with 5 people each I lose like 8 transports in that situation.

grr!

Perfect! I just bought GalCiv over the weekend, but couldn't figure out how to load up my colony ships yet...