Destroy Colony = Planet Quality 0

I recently discovered that if you destroy a colony using the Destroy Colony button under planet details, it reduces the Planet Quality to 0, making uncolonizable from that point onward. I first discovered this in beta 4 of TA, but it is still true in v1.80g Beta 4a. Is this meant to be the case? It wasn't like that in Dread Lords (I just tried it out). I hadn't caught this until now because I am not in the habit of abandoning colonies.

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I can't speak to Dread Lords, but it was definitely in for Dark Avatar and has been for a long time.

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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Yes, it's quite intentional.

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DivineWrath

Join Date 05/2006

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If I recall corectly, destroying a colony in previous versions resulted in the planet's PQ to be reduced by 2. After that, you could recolonize.

The problem with that was, if you had a PQ bonus ability, the act of colonizing would increase the PQ again. If the planet was 17+ before its destruction, you would get a class 15 or better. If you had a +20% PQ bonus, you get 3 additional tiles giving you a planet with a PQ atleast 1 point better than what you had. If you kept this up, you could get a class 72 (no point in going any further, you can't see any more tiles).

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Personally i'd rather see it just destroy your colony, not the planet (i.e. leave the planet quality unaltered, just remove all improvements and population). But that's just me.

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