Am I missing something with colony drones? I ignore armour and assign an appropriate movement/ burn combination to ensure it will survive one turn longer than the ETA. I have tried firing them at planets with maximum colony potentials and sometimes they land a form a colony and other times they just sit on top of the planet. I have tried firing them at planets that have no colony size info and every time they arrive and then vanish without forming a colony. Yet I look at other systems and races have every planet colonised. What am I doing wrong?

There is a bug someplace in there. So you are probably doing everything right. I'll try to get it done....

Can you colonise any planet in a system, or just the ones that show as having a size potential?

I would have thought that any planet, given the right materials, could be colonised. Ok the limit would be small, but an outpost could be maintained.

any planet can be colonized up to 3, the numbers are for planets with a max size (for your race) greater than 3.

Can you colonise the Sun of a solar system?
Can you colonise an asteroid field?
What happens if you fire the last habitat of a ship at a planet?
Does the escape pod reach the planet?

adam.sparshott wrote:

Can you colonise the Sun of a solar system?

No.

adam.sparshott wrote:

Can you colonise an asteroid field?

No (but I suppose there's an argument to be made for letting asteriods be colonized at 1)

adam.sparshott wrote:

What happens if you fire the last habitat of a ship at a planet?

the ship dies, is sucked into the void that waits below and drags all drones the ship fired with it.

adam.sparshott wrote:

Does the escape pod reach the planet?

it should, but no. Then again, I still think that many drones should persist after their source ship is gone.