All of a sudden I'm surrounded by uncolonized PQ6 planets in the middle of my game?

I have never seen this happen before. Wazzup?

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Here I am playing in my corner of the universe, mid-way into my game, and suddenly there are tons of PQ6 planets, that have NEVER been available (inhabitable) before (like Jupiter, Saturn, etc). None of the other civs were making any attempt to colonize the ones in their sphere of influence. Just have never seen this before. Can someone explain if this is part of the game? I am still using Version 1.11 (waiting to download 1.2 when it's completed the testing cycle).

Cheers,


Helo
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think theres some sort of random event thet can do this - i've never had it myself, so i cant speak from experience, but i've read it elsewhere in the forums. some thing about a precursor device...

anyway, maybe this was it, and hopefully someone who has had this event can elaborate?

perhaps the window informing about the event did not appear for some reason, but the event happened anyway.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, sometimes you get an event where scientists discover a precursor device on a planet that raises the PQ of all the other planets in that system by so much. Are there PQ 6 planets in just one system or lots of them?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Heh you think thats unerving

I had a precusro discovery that turned every planet of the clsoest 4-5 starts in +PQ16 planets, nautrally they were all outside my infulence and a game I had nearly wrapped up turned into a massive slog as the Comp players all snapped up thoes worlds and started to get big really fast. hehehe acutally made for a very interesting game in the end.

woulda killed for the +PQ16 to happen for my system though then I woulda PWNED !
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, there is a discovery of some precursor device that improves the planet quality of all uninhabitable planets within a certain number of parsecs or sectors to some number. In my case, it was only 4. Apparently in your case it was 6, and in VladePsyker's case it was 16 (LUCKY!!)
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Are there PQ 6 planets in just one system or lots of them?


Lots of them. The other civs seem unaware that these planets are up for grabs. I am the only civ that is going after them (churning out colony ships as fast as possible). Just thinking....I should get those ships made on some of my distant planets, or I'm going to deplete the colonists if I take them off of just one or two. I can just build some fast long range ships and beat the other civs if they ever catch on????

Cheers

Helo
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Are there PQ 6 planets in just one system or lots of them?

Lots of them.

The other civs seem unaware that these planets are up for grabs

Same here.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hah. That happened to me one time, and didn't notice all the new planets. A few turns later, other civ's suddenly had control of previously uninhabitable planets all throughout my systems and used them to launch an assault from the inside. Made for quite the interesting game.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If they are in my sphere of influence, I would let the other civs waste the population colonizing them, and then take them over through influence.

I no longer colonize every planet in my reach, just 2-3 of the best ones. Taking the others from the AI through influence later.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That event can ruin the AI as they can't develop a planet quickly in the late game. Most human players will just take the hit and spend a fortune on quick buying a factory. The AI is normally broke due to excessive war mongering.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had humans get 3 20somthing planets from that. I was lucky that they like me and hated the yor for tacking saturn. I the tors just won a diplo victori after leading the whole galaxy on the yor in a big allied group. We had tosters for all.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I love random events and would never shut them off. They add a lot of flavor.

I've had this happen to me in one of my first games. The systems were far and they were PQ15 planets. I immediately switched all military production to colony ships and I got the majority of them for myself.

In the last game I played I had almost conquered the galaxy with an ally, and their leader was assassinated and he and I went to war instantly. I still won because he was grossly unprepaired for war with me.
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
HEH, I always have a couple of colony ships ready, even late-game. Ususally I never need them but 1 game in 10 they pay off for the above mentioned reasons.
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
and in VladePsyker's case it was 16

I had that one, got almost 100,000 points when i won on normal. Too bad they recalculated metaverse since then.