Colony Ships

Colony Ships are features in Icarus.

The player can construct colony ships, large and small at times of 19 seconds and 9 seconds respectively and at costs of 600 metal and 1500 metal respectively, but that amount of time is only available with a high population number of about 500,000 With solar reflectors, the amount of time for both can be reduced to 17 secs and 7 secs.

The small colony ship and large colony ships had a capacity of 10,000 and 100,000 from before 1.4.0.0, and now it is 10 million and 100 million respectively. If the planet has less than a colony ship's capacity, it will take the entire planet's population. The small colony ship moves 50% faster than the large colony ship, so the small colony ship is useful for Mining.

The interstellar colony ship has a usual wait time of about 60 seconds for a large population and a cost of 125000 metal and 10000 deuterium, although if solar reflectors were built on the planet, the wait time would be reduced to 53 seconds. In earlier games, this interstellar colony ship used to cost 200000 metal in 1.0.6.1 and 250000 metal in 1.0.0.6.