QP0 to QP15, why just new minor races?

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Would it be possible to add a new tech at the end of the terraforming branch, that allowed the creation of a "Genesis Device Module"? It could be enourmously expensive to research and build. And it could have a huge negative hit to your influence. It would change a QP0 to a QP???, after all when a new minor race arrives they get what used to be a QP0 and now its a QP15. And there are events that alter all planets QP in a 2 sector range. (and in cheatmode "Ctrl P" allows you to do this).  And maybe it could also trigger an event that causes another race to declare war on you when used. (similar as to when Alan Bradley is touring the galaxy and is assinated by indigents who think he is ugly).  Any thoughts, or is it an imbedded in the code problem? Thanks.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I reckon thats a good one - the game balancing issues would not be trivial, so I doubt it would come any time soon ...... but, yup, gets my vote!

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Sounds good, but probably not doable with what modders have available.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yup, embedded... but, read on --

Spore-Ships! Reverting the effect of that particular ship would probably simply be a matter of TotA module "creation".

As for DA stuff, i have actually expanded the Terraforming branch for X-Worlds(05-F) to include new concepts which would require a fourth level (or more, btw) of enhancements to surface tiles. This, in fact, is not far out from the Genesis device mentioned since it does boost the actual default values.
And yet again this is another Hard-Coded feature that i wouldn't be able to alter without patching the exe for myself. Although, once the new version is out... i fully expect players to witness the potential and even, try convincing SD_devs to implement the extra tiles.
(PS; this system is thoroughly explained in another thread "About Custom Planets" further down in the forums here)

Now, the actual magic of transforming a PQ0 to colonizable variations could simply involve providing the regular "InhabitableByAll" tag an extra slot where a toggle could mean improvable by such a device. A sort of indirect Sixth Extreme! :)

But that would defeat (or greatly lower its intended impact) the whole concept or purpose of Extremes, don't you think?
We DO have development perspectives with any of these, once the Colonizing branches allow for true control over these surfaces.

If there is one priority area where planetary assets could be recoded with new features, it is the PQ1 rogues (wasted, but tricky)... anyhow that's only me, thinking & wishing aloud.

Don't forget overall Planet Quality potential is also a tech driven quest and those advantages must be earned, when a powerful Genesis device could certainly tilt this fragile balance into unpredictable results; namely, i could well predict any huge maps being flooded by AI controlled super-genesis ships to take over anything & everything in the galaxy.

What about Saturn? Gaz Giant, isn't it? Right now, nobody can colonize it. And yet, how many small Moons around it could?
Expand your mind on this - A planet with Satellites would become a Star system on its own... and this, without ever using a Genesis one-time fits all solution.
Strategy of expansion, i'd say. Rather than being spoon fed PQ0 (no longer nil, btw) surfaces with new tiles.

Gimme a way to boost my Homeworld from PQ18 to PQ33 (!only 15 more tiles - 5 Y_O_R schemas each!), instead!

;)
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Im not sure, but i seem to remember something in one of the campaigns that could randomly do that... The precursor device? i think it was that would randomly turn uninhabitable planets into habitable ones, but i might be just imagining that...
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hey, if there IS something in a code which does such stuff - then, it's entirely possible that a modder would find a way to tap into the precious feature itself; mega-events driven by consequences or accessible via functions_routines are two sides of the same coin anyway.
:)