Trading population

trooper · #1 January 18th, 2003, 09:16 PM

I know it may sound a bit doubtful, but I think that population trading with his allies is definitively a good way to improve one's empire, by turning domed worlds into atmosphere compatible ones.
But what are the best ways to perform that kind of trade ?
It's impossible to sell or drop cargo on a foreign planet, so the only way is to sell a full transport ship or abandon a planet with its population ?

capnq · #2 January 18th, 2003, 09:31 PM

You don't want to abandon a planet. That just removes the population from the game, and gives you a choice whether to leave the facilities intact.

You have to give or trade a ship with population in cargo, or a planet. You might want to design a special transport for the trade, so the person you trade it to won't get any "free" techs from you by Analyzing it after he offloads the population.

Arkcon · #3 January 18th, 2003, 09:37 PM

It's cheezy, but I'll trade an empty colony ship for the colony ship the AI just sent into my territory. I can sweeten that deal with 5,000 organics or something. They take it and I get a colony ship, population, colonization tech, and I deprive them of that world in my system they wanted.

Ah, the power of cheeze

trooper · #4 January 18th, 2003, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Arkcon:
It's cheezy, but I'll trade an empty colony ship for the colony ship the AI just sent into my territory. I can sweeten that deal with 5,000 organics or something. They take it and I get a colony ship, population, colonization tech, and I deprive them of that world in my system they wanted.

One more evidence that prove that AIs are really stupid !

Phoenix-D · #5 January 18th, 2003, 11:18 PM

One more evidence that prove that AIs are really stupid !"

Actually a player either way has no way of knowing what condition the ship he is receving is in. This makes ship trades a bit risky. You could get the fully equipped colony ship you're expecting- or you could get a badly damaged and outdated clunker that will cost more to get back to your territory and repair than you could ever gain from the trade.

Phoenix-D

trooper · #6 January 18th, 2003, 11:20 PM

That's why I think that ship trading is reserved to good human player allies...