

Take care to manage an immigration policy to avoid the problems caused by mass unemployment. The colonist recruitment drives on the homeworld are also not always honest with the colonists when it comes to the job they have been promised, and so colonists will arrive even if there are no jobs vacant in the colony at the time. Colonists will arrive at the colony even when the colony has a food shortfall (the food supply is reducing over time), or a famine (when there is 0 food available).


To gain more colonists, a landing pad and a spare housing space must be available. If the atmosphere of a planet is below one million, then a human colonist will appear to move around wearing a space suit (which will vary slightly in appearance based on their employment) and once the atmosphere is breathable (over one million Atmosphere) then the human colonists will stop wearing their space suits.Įvery colony starts with 2 colonists (the crew of the lander) and over time many more will be required. They require food and water to survive and in return will work in many of the colony buildings above the basic automated, low level buildings. Colonists with an occupation are referred to as workers in this wiki.Ĭolonists are central to any thriving colony. From top left to bottom right: unskilled, blue collar, botanist, scientist, white collar, politicianĬolonists are the name given to the individual members of your colony.
