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

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.

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.

Is it orbiting a star named "Primus?" If it is, that pretty much explains everything. The Primus star system is invariably glitchy.

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?'

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.

Or you simply build on the moons.

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.

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.

Is it orbiting a star named "Primus?"

It is actually, or it was, I finished the game a few days ago.

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.

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.