game's cool, but it'd be cooler if....

noneshallstand · October 12, 2002, 20:32

i just started playin about a week ago. And its fun! Really fun! But how do i transfer food between colonies?? I have plenty of free freighters, excess food. But I can't figure it out. If someone told me, then this game would really kick ass!

vmxa1 · October 12, 2002, 20:40

If you have freighters not being used (free) and excess food it will be automatic, unless you have a blockade of the planet. In that case you are not able to ship food to it. It may be blocked by the event that stops ships from moving, I can't remember, but I don't think it affects freighters. If that is not it load a save and I will look at it. If yu are not sure how, just go the the attach file in the post reply and select browse.

Uberslacker · October 12, 2002, 23:20

Freighters are unaffected by the space flux.

vmxa1 · October 13, 2002, 00:03

Thanks, that's what I thought.

ShuShu · October 30, 2002, 12:40

If you have free freighters and excess food, the you have, well... excess food.

The food indicator shows the excess food after all colonies have gotten what they need, even if you do not have sufficient freighters to deliver it.

There will be a status message every turn indicating when colonies are starving. You should not be getting that message if you have excess freighters and excess food, unless you are blockaded as pointed out earlier.