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Finally i build a colonize ship and colonised one planeet outside the home star system... a lot to do for this [:D]
This is tricky for a new player if he/she start from zero or start with the classical era what has a explorer what can go outside explorer the homesystem right at the start.
I played now the classical era ..suppose i play the introductory game it seems that the explorer also there is capable of flying outside the homesystem
A advantage maybe, because starting from zero you need first the warp bubble generator to find before you can go on adventure.

Besides the resource tables are there more tables to get for me.. what else is more documented by users [:)]

The main list windows can be accessed from the buttons in the top center of the screen. There's a list of all your ships, a list of all your fleets, a list of all your colonies, a list of all your construction yards (construction ships, spaceports, colonies), a list of your designs, a window for ordering lots of ships easily (but without control over where they get built), and a few other things.

Well i make a own table if needed to get some things clear
I must say that i managed to control now the game mechanics and started from zero to 3 colonies, it is indeed a deep game and fun to play, overwhelming too, but i don't spend too much attention to all what happening on the screen for now.
In 2 sytemen outsside the homesytem are colonies infestested with pirates base and even a fortress..how handling troops is now coming in play and how to know at forehand if the colony troops are strong enough against the pirates troops? ..a new question
It is a challencing game !

Got a warning message when i want to close the design screen

You do not have any non-obsolete designs for the following civilian ship types:
Colony Ship

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a double negotiation .. it means i do have a obsolete design for the Colony ship , but the population on the homeworld is below 5000 M, it is 4378 M, so there is no chance now to build a colony ship right now
There are no colonyships involved in this stage of the game, that is impossible

Is this a sort of reminder ?
All is now done manual the shipdesign.

No. It means you have no designs for the colony ship which are not obsolete. Hence it is not a double negation. (It does not say anything about whether you have any obsolete designs for this ship.) [/logic lesson]

Colony ships can be built at worlds of population 500m and over. The reminder is an automatic one as the AI will not be able to build a colony ship if it wants to. If your design and ship orders are manual it will not matter since you will remember to design a colony ship before going to build one. I hope. [:D] (Not sure what it does to the advisers suggestions...)

Understood now.. but a colony ship will showing up in the designlist for the colony constructionyard at a population of 5000M and than will this message about the colony ship disappear...i think.
My empire will be staying modest without colonization ..easy play
[:)]

The colony ship will only show up for construction if you have designed one. [;)] Haven't looked in this version but previously I vaguely remember that colony ship would show up for construction in the list but you could not order it until over 500m population. BTW 500<5000 (and by heaps in terms of the game population).

The message will only disappear once you have designed a colony ship.

yes a half billion ..500 million .. the colony design ship is not showing up, because there is first a another build to do

Ok i searched now on the forum and found the answer ..the size of the colony ship is has nothing to do with the tech research for shipsize
A colonyship size must be then unlimited for building (not too big i suppose , otherwise it never can leave the colony planet [:)])..why it is not documented?