Just wondering how many of you out there deal with the uninhabitable planets, the heavy gravity, toxic etc. planets that are available in DA. (Seems like a good subject for a poll but I don't know how to set one up, or whether the forum allows that.)
Do you usually, sometimes, or almost never, research the techs to make unihabitable planets habitable and then colonize them?
Your answer probably depends a lot on what size galaxy you play and how frequently habitable planets occur in your galaxy, so you might want to qualify your answer by telling what options you usually play in this regard.
In one game with a huge galaxy and lots of planets I went right after the techs to colonize the best uninhabitable planets, some of them Class 12 and 10, and got maybe 8 of them. But the time it took away from researching military techs threw me too far behind, and before I could upgrade them and build up production from them I was killed by the AI...probably because I looked too weak. So I have never colonized an uninhabitable planet since. Anyway, I think it would be interesting to hear what others have to say.
Thanks for your replies.