AMosely

So I have moved (to Engios[69:82] > Sitka), moved my capital (via the governor's residence, converting it to my new palace) and removed all buildings and resources from the original capital which now is a colony. The only building left is the town hall. I clicked on it to abandon it, and I get an error:

Huh? There are no events that I can tell - there are no buildings, no deployed ships, no nothing. It's dead other than the unhappy population. Any ideas?

Acreo Aeneas

I think it's a bug they haven't fixed yet.

I don't remember exactly, but I remember reading about this problem on the Ikariam forum. One of the GO's responded that it wasn't high on their priorities list or something along those lines.

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ParkBench

oh boo... I'm hours away from trying to do the same thing... well I guess... uhm.. I'll let those people stay over there... : (

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kormendi

I got that when trying to abandon my colony just after shipping the last of the resources away. I had to wait until the ships had reached their destination before I could abandon it.

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Rincewind

Let us know if that's it!

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My Rig

Tarenth

Correct. Fleets need to have a port of call and a port to return. You can't abandon until all actions associated with that colony have terminated.

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Ferris Bueller

In order to abandon a colony, you literally cant be doing ANYTHING with it. All ships in port. All troops at home. All buildings static (i.e. nothing being built or upgraded). Otherwise you'll get that error.

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AMosely

As usual, the fellow TG'ers are correct.

I had ships that launched from the abandoned colony but were still on their 26-hour journey to the new world. As soon as the ships landed, said colony could be deleted.

That said, I was really surprised at how long it took for my population to drop. This was a colony with NO buildings other than the town hall, yet it maintained a population of 230 tax paying citizens for days, with a fractional decline. Once I figured this out I let it linger a bit longer until I needed the slot for a colony closer to my new capitol. Then it was 'buh bye.'

geologist

Don't forget to call your spies home before you demo that hideout too...

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Farkarian

8 bits

I ran into this problem as well. In my case I had been attacked and had to wait for the other guy's army to finish their journey home.

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