Can't Colonize - Planet already has a Planned Colony

[Jacq]

I only have one Colony ship, but it won't let me select it to colonize a planet (it says "Planet already has a Planned Colony" a hundred times). The colony ship I have hasn't moved in about 5 game months, and there isn't another colony ship in the build queue.

I just bought the game tonight and this is the 2nd planet I'm trying to colonize. Since I'm so new, I'd really appreciate some patience in your explanations of how to fix this :)

Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/3jaRC0K.png

[JasperTheManiac]

Is the planet (system ) connected to your hyperlane influence?

( the draw lines between systems )

It cant plot the route i guess.

[tonechild]

I think its because the planet already has a planned colony.

[Jacq]

Originally posted by Captain:

Is the planet (system ) connected to your hyperlane influence?

( the draw lines between systems )

It cant plot the route i guess.

yes. It's only like 3 planets away from my starting point, and other ships can fly there fine. I can manually move the shop to the system but it still won't colonize.

[Jacq]

Originally posted by tonechild:

I think its because the planet already has a planned colony.

That's not helpful. Do you know how to fix it?

[wolkenwand]

The only time this happen is when you already has colony ship planned to colonize the system, the ship is either already buing built or headed to the planet, check the starbase it might be in process of building the ship.

[AllenCecil]

Originally posted by wolkenwand:

The only time this happen is when you already has colony ship planned to colonize the system, the ship is either already buing built or headed to the planet, check the starbase it might be in process of building the ship.

Agreed. Check the UI right side column and don't be surprised that the planet is building.

[thedesimone]

Think it may be a new bug. Having the same issue, but it's persisted for nearly a century now. No colony ship was built for it, none of my shipyards have one in the queue. Can't manually colonize with a colony ship I built for test purposes.

[Storm]

Did you get rid of the shipyard that was building the colony ship before it was completed?

[kbmodigity]

I have seen this if you change a starbase from having a shipyard that is colonizing a ship and while its doing so change the module to something else like an anchorage. Only way to fix it is to change that exact starbase back to having a shipyard and let it finish its queue.

[Cihangir Akkurt]

It can be solved if you built a colony ship manually without going through planet->colonize route. Built a colony ship from your shipyard, and click to that planet and click "colonize" manually if you got stuck due to shipyard conversion.

[Storm]

Originally posted by Cihangir Akkurt:

It can be solved if you built a colony ship manually without going through planet->colonize route. Built a colony ship from your shipyard, and click to that planet and click "colonize" manually if you got stuck due to shipyard conversion.

What, what is this?

[sIxtysix]

Just had this bug, searching for an answer brought me here.

What I ended up doing was going to the Expansion Planner on the left side menu, finding the colony in the list, and hitting the big X that was on the right hand side of that colony row selection. That seemed to do the trick.

Gonna build a new colony ship and try again manually

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[martin.lovasz]

I remember this bug and as stated one had to let the game auto colonize the planet.

[knodel]

I just wanted to say thanks for this fix, @The Perfumed Masculinist.

This was driving me nuts. I had queued up a "colonize" action from the planet screen, and selected a race that was only on a "special" planet that was causing the colony ship to block, but never build.