DST1348

Join Date 07/2012

Brindley's Observatory not working?

I just completed Brindley's Observatory on a planet. I expected to find a new habitable planet near by. But there is no new colonizable planet. I also looked at the Planets tab on the main screen and didn't find any colonizable planets. Is Brindley's Observatory bugged or am I missing something? Does it take a few turns?

Thanks for your help!

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IIRC, Brindle's doesn't give a colonizable planet, it gives a full-blown colony instead.

Look in the vicinity of the planet you built it on. You sure that you didn't get a new colony?

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Publius of NV

Join Date 08/2002

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I think Croc411 is correct. And look in neighboring systems, as I recall it doesn't always appear in the same system where you built the Observatory.

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admiralWillyWilber

Join Date 05/2009

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You should have 1 extra colony. There should have been an extra idle colony before you can continue on that turn.

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Thanks for your replies! I don’t want to complain about an extra colony, but I try to imagine it from an in-game perspective:

Wesley: Professor Brindley?

Brindley: Yes, Wosley?

Wesley: Wesley, Sir. I pointed my new telescope to the gravitational anomaly in the Iconis system. I have analyzed the gravitational and electromagnetic data, and, Professor, it turns out to be a previously unknown planet! Furthermore, …

Brindley: Nonsense, Wodley! How could we have overlooked a entire planet in the age of intergalactic space travel?

Wesley: I also analyzed the spectral data, Professor Brindley. It appears that the new planet is inhabited. My first analysis suggests about 3 billion people.

Brindley: Oh these incompetent PhD students these days. You wouldn’t have gotten away with such nonsense in my days, Wasley. Put the adaptive optics to maximum and let me have a look...

Wesley: Yes, professor. It's Wesley, by the way.

Brindley [looking through telescope]: Fascinating! It’s full of people! Get me my notes Worsley and cancel all my appointments!

Hours later an emergency meeting of the government takes place:

Science minister: I have just received a report from Professor Brindley on Tauris Prime. He affirms me that he has finally solved the problem of the gravitational anomaly in our home system. It turns out to be a planet inhabited by three billion of our people.

Minister of Defense: That is ridiculous! Are you suggesting my scout ships have been flying past that planet for decades?

Science minister: Not only suggesting, but also saying.

Minister of Defense: But your survey ships did not detect it either, despite their incredible administrative upkeep! I say we nuke that planet to dust, to get rid of this embarrassment. We would be the laughing stock of the galaxy!

Prime minister: Gentlemen!

Minister of Culture: I say we welcome our brothers as new members of our glorious republic. Just act as if the discovery of a colony of three billion people in our home system were the most natural thing.

Minister of Treasury: Don’t forget to send the tax declaration forms with their new republic ID card. I estimate 500 billion credits in back taxes for the last hundred years.

Prime minister: Agreed! Also order them to sponsor our shipyard. Now, let’s have lunch!

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LOL, funny story, DST.

You know what's also funny? In my last game I built Brindle's Observatory and ... got nothing!

Not a colonizable world and not a new colony. I am 100% sure I got neither of those at least 50 hexes around the planet I built the observatory on.

So Brindle's indeed seems to be buggy. It did either nothing at all or created a colonizable world somewhere far away where I couldn't find it.

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admiralWillyWilber

Join Date 05/2009

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Ok this is not, so unbelieveable if you are taking into account that people are claming the existaence of another planet, or that we might of picked up a rogue planet.

Now this would validate the planet vulcan, or nibiru.

Ok lets say this is real. Now remember influence flipping happens all the time. Cant we just we influence flipped a not space faring species.

Now besides the above idea we still have convergent evolution.

Now besides the above 2 ideas we have a world wide flood. I can only thonk of Noah, and Atlantis, bthat could have colonised a planet. A planet we dont think exists. Even though, we would not being taking into account advanced technology. Or are we, both the aceans, drengins, and the paulos advanced slower than we did. Even historicly nations dont do well in isolation.

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