Dead colonies still producing resources

[Geoff the Medio]

Does this seem to occur with anything besides industry and research?

Should happen for any meter with an associated target meter towards which it moves.

Actually i have some script in place added in species.txt when the evacuation building was, that is supposed to do this: (similar script for research) Why doesn't this do the trick? Is it failing because population might actually be 0.00000001?

Possibly, although if a colony has 0 population, it's converted into an outpost which has no species.

[eleazar]

Does this seem to occur with anything besides industry and research?

Should happen for any meter with an associated target meter towards which it moves.

What i meant to ask about is weather anybody thinks there is problem with any of the other meter on outposts.

The troop meter is theoretically set to 50% of what it otherwise would be on an outposts. It would probably be reasonable to do at least that much for shields and defenses,

Actually i have some script in place added in species.txt when the evacuation building was, that is supposed to do this: (similar script for research) Why doesn't this do the trick? Is it failing because population might actually be 0.00000001?

Possibly, although if a colony has 0 population, it's converted into an outpost which has no species.

Now that you mention it, i don't understand why it works, but the garrison techs work on outposts, even though the bonuses are only provided in species.txt

[Geoff the Medio]

...i don't understand why it works, but the garrison techs work on outposts, even though the bonuses are only provided in species.txt

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scope = OwnedBy TheEmpire Source.Owner

This will target all the empire's owned objects, not just the source object (planet or ship with the species on it).

[Bigjoe5]

Actually i have some script in place added in species.txt when the evacuation building was, that is supposed to do this: (similar script for research) Why doesn't this do the trick? Is it failing because population might actually be 0.00000001?

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     EffectsGroup                    // removes residual production from a dead planet
            scope = Source
            activation = And [
                Planet
                TargetPopulation low = 0 high = 0
            ]
            effects = SetIndustry Value = 0

Either "high" or "low" works on a "strictly less than" or "strictly greater than" basis (I think it's high => strictly less than, but I don't really recall), so your script will never match any objects, as there are no planets with a TargetPopulation greater-than-or-equal-to 0, but also strictly-less-than 0.

Another issue may be that it's in species.txt - if Source refers to an object of that species, it may not match a planet with no population, since it would no longer have a species associated with it. Instead, it might be preferable to do it via "secret" tech.

[Geoff the Medio]

Either "high" or "low" works on a "strictly less than" or "strictly greater than" basis...

I think that changed so both will match values equal to the parameter.