Another first game question. I got the barren world colonization tech, loaded up my colony ship with people and tried to colonize a level zero planet said to be uninhabitable, picked at random. But no go. I've had no trouble colonizing habitable planets. I feel bad stranding those potential colonists out there in orbit. What am I doing wrong? Also, can colonies be started in enemy territory when at war?
I had my military slider about 1/3 up. I cranked it all the way and that got my military production going on Earth. I thought maybe I needed a recruiting center for military production...but it's a starport, eh? I guess that makes sense since building ships is the main (the only?) military thing to do. So then the more military production, the faster I can build ships, I assume. '
I've just started playing GalCivII, learning by doing after watching the tutorials6 One thing that has me stumped is I cannot get any military production going for any of my three colonies. At the top of the map screen for each planet with a colony - where military/social/research proportions are selected, the figure for military is always in parenthesis. I can easily change social and research production, but military stays in parenthesis which indicates only potential, no actual
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