No more slots?

[Aabraxan]

I was playing MOO2 tonight and ran across something that I've never quite understood. Occasionally, when I move a colonist from one planet to another, I get a message that "there are no more slots for that occupation." For example, tonight I moved a worker from a housing planet to my big planet in that system and tried to switch him to a farmer (by just dropping him in among the farmers). Got the message. Then I dropped him into the workers, picked him up again and dropped him in with the farmers. Didn't get the message.

What gives with the "no more slots" message?

 

[barseer]

Transport colonists+change profession bug When transporting colonists to a different job field on a different colony, the game checks the maximum of workers for the source planet, not for the target planet.

http://masteroforion2.blogspot.com/2005/07/master-of-orion-ii-bugs.html

 

[Aabraxan]

A-ha! That explains it. Thanks.