Empire Quest "Assemble the Masses" not working?

[ogey rrat gaming]

It says to "Absorb a new colony or outpost", but capturing a neutral settlement to turn it into a colony doesn't work. Neither does inviting the populace to live in my colonies. What do you actually need to finish this quest?

Saw while searching that capturing player colonies doesn't work either so i'm not trying that.

[Gaius]

I looked up and found this in Reddit, hope it works:

"I just figured it out... absorb the population of the settlement into your colony, not the Absorb action that takes a few turns and gives you a new colony. They should adjust the wording on that."

I guess you gotta use diplomacy to capture a neutral settlement, but use the option to transfer the pop t your colony, not create a colony or create a colonizer unit. Guess it's just REALLY badly written.

[Obsidian Shadow]

You should report this on the Paradox forum. It seems to be a rare bug. There are 2 player reports of this occurrence (in 2020 and 2021). I am currently playing empire mode but have not come across this problem yet because I did not get this particular quest so far .

[ogey rrat gaming]

Originally posted by Gaius:

I looked up and found this in Reddit, hope it works:

"I just figured it out... absorb the population of the settlement into your colony, not the Absorb action that takes a few turns and gives you a new colony. They should adjust the wording on that."

I guess you gotta use diplomacy to capture a neutral settlement, but use the option to transfer the pop t your colony, not create a colony or create a colonizer unit. Guess it's just REALLY badly written.

I did this already too. It too didn't work.

Originally posted by Obsidian Shadow:

You should report this on the Paradox forum. It seems to be a rare bug. There are 2 player reports of this occurrence (in 2020 and 2021). I am currently playing empire mode but have not come across this problem yet because I did not get this particular quest so far .

I saw the reports too, I think I am not gonna bother at this point, I've completed the artifacts anyways, I was just annoyed because if only the quest worked properly, it would've sped up XP farming for the factions.