Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: WCG

OK, I'm in my first game of Distant Worlds: Shadows, playing an empire in the pre-warp era. I went into the ship design section, but when I close it, I get the following warning:

Warning: Missing civilian ship designs

You do not have any non-obsolete designs of the following civilian ship types:

Colony Ship

...

You may want to review your choices and ensure that you have some non-obsolete designs for the above ship type.


Now, I've researched Colonization, but not any of the specific planet types. However, the game says that each race gets one planet type for free. In my case, as a human, that would be continental planets. So shouldn't I be able to colonize a continental planet without doing any more research?

But I can't build a colony ship, and the appropriate tech doesn't show that it's already known, either. Am I really missing some civilian designs? (I can't seem to build a resort base, either.) If so, how can I "ensure" that I have some of these designs?

When I go into ship designs and set it to show me all of them, I can see designs for cruisers and capital ships, even though I can't actually build them yet. But I can't see a design for a colony ship (or a resort base) at all. So is this a problem with the game or not?

I'm confused.

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ORIGINAL: BigWolf

Once you've researched the first colonization tech you can colonize any planet that the races in your empire can colonize (providing you have X amount of whichever race at a single planet)

The other colonization techs are for you to let races colonize planets they can't naturally

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ORIGINAL: Darkspire
They also double the population rate for the previous planet type. Also worth a mention is that you can send first level colony ships, in your case continental, to any independent, they do not have to be continental,...