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Mighty Mongoose
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Erm should the Thalans be able to colonise a gas giant.

September 10, 2006 10:34:47 AM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
Sorry I don't have a screenshot or anything, if it happens again I'll take one, but during one game I was playing I noticed that the Thalans had colonised a gas giant, which was class 5, now speaking from experience shouldn't all gas giants be 0 and uncolonisable?
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Reply #1 September 10, 2006 11:15:22 AM
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there is a random event which makes all uncolonized planets in a certain range of somewhere a certain PQ amount. Unfortunately the game doesn't distinguish gas giants from terrestrial worlds when doing the random events.

So it's possible you had forgotten about the random event by the time you found it.
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Reply #2 September 10, 2006 11:39:22 AM
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or that its a video game and... well thalans arent real

I like how you commented on that but not on all the other things that really dont obey the laws of physics.
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Reply #3 September 10, 2006 11:49:34 AM
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Is it orbiting a star named "Primus?" If it is, that pretty much explains everything. The Primus star system is invariably glitchy.
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Reply #4 September 10, 2006 3:59:13 PM
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r that its a video game and... well thalans arent real


LOL, .. what, what do you mean, Thalans aren't real.. ?


Also this AI reply always cracks me up: 'You think this is some kind of computer game?'
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Reply #5 September 10, 2006 4:40:33 PM
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Colonizing a gas giant just means you get to build cool floating cities in the sky with a society that has abundant access to nifty industrial gases. There, that was simple to rationalize.
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Reply #6 September 10, 2006 5:02:40 PM
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Or you simply build on the moons.
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Reply #7 September 10, 2006 5:12:24 PM
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It sometimes happens - you get a "normal" planet but for some reason the game decides to use one of the gas giant textures as well.

If you owned the planet, you'd see that the planet screen iis perfectly normal.

It happens in the mod I'm working on all the time, usually only one planet per map. And its not the event, because it's like that from the start.
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Reply #8 September 11, 2006 1:54:34 PM
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I've had that random event, playing as the Terrans. Every planet in the Sol system was colonizable -- I think as fives. I just assumed the gas giants included the moons or a cloud city and Mercury was dark side inhabited only.

Makes for a happy game.
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Reply #9 September 12, 2006 1:50:41 PM
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Is it orbiting a star named "Primus?"



It is actually, or it was, I finished the game a few days ago.
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Reply #10 October 4, 2006 1:51:28 PM
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Well in reality there is different species that has different atmospheres and gravities. For instance humans wouldnt survive on gas gaints even if it was PQ:X.

But this would make things awhole lot better if they did put these realistic races in GC2... MoO3 has it.
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Reply #11 October 4, 2006 5:31:18 PM
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The game doesn't care what a planet looks like when it assigns a quality to it. One time I had a high PQ planet appear as a tiny little thing. Other times I've had low PQ planets appear very large. It's just a thing with the game.

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