# of usefull planets

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Hello,

 

I just finished the campaign and started my first sandbox game. I play on immense and abundant/abundant. However, every game I start I encounter lots of planets I can`t colonize. Whole parts of space have lots of stars with useless planets. Maybe 1 in 5 planets is colonizalble and another 1 in 5 after the research is done. Is this normal on max settings for planets? I scouted around maybe 50 sectors for 10 games and all were the same. 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Check your Galaxy Setup settings. There's a slider for Habitable Planets and for Number of Extreme Planets.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

A slider for number of extreme planets?

 

I'd say with my games I play with abundant planets and abundant habitable planets and I get on average 2 planets per star system. If there is a slider that I've never seen before I'd like to see it. I usually play tight clusters abundant asteroids/anomalies/planets/habitable/stars. That's how I judge star systems (because of the influence/flip factor), is this what you see, or is it just a lot of planets? 5 per star with only 2/5 being usable is what I see mostly, up to 4 at times.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Fair_Play, reply 2
A slider for number of extreme planets?
End of Fair_Play's quote

Yes, in TA. I haven't played DL in ages and I forget whether it even has extreme planets.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting GW, reply 3
Yes, in TA. I haven't played DL in ages and I forget whether it even has extreme planets.
End of GW's quote

Like you, I've been playing in TA for years, but just recently for grins I started a game in DL.  There are no extreme planets.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'm playing ToA but I don't see any option for number of extreme planets anywhere :(

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Fair_Play, reply 5
I'm playing ToA but I don't see any option for number of extreme planets anywhere
End of Fair_Play's quote

Bottom left on the "Galaxy Settings" rows.

Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Thanks for the responses. I noticed i had the number of planets on common. I changed that to abundant and I have more useful planets now, extreme planets on random. Unfortunaley the green bugs cover more than half the universe now. Good thing I set-up the other civs to keep them busy until I am ready to take those bug planets :P.

My 2nd game and on a level higher this time than crippling. I find that I just cant keep up with the bug AI and have to avoid a head on confrontation for now until I'm strong enough. I just find myself giving techs to allied civs in order to prevent them taking over the whole map. I wiped out another race who declared war on me, but then they surrendered to another race and not to me:( I was just about to take their homeplanet with several of the unique wonders..

Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

TA has quite a few less planets than DA-somewhere in the vicinity of 25% or 30% less, even-and, if memory serves (it's been a very long time, apologies), tight clusters has less planets than either scattered or loose.

I seem to recall scattered working better in TA and loose working better in DA, as far as consistently getting large quantities of habitable planets, but I could very easily have gotten that backwards as I can't presently locate my research on that.

Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I believe loose has the most in DA.

Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting TiraZ, reply 7
then they surrendered to another race and not to me
End of TiraZ's quote

I hate that.  In TA you can uncheck the "Allow Surrenders" box on the Galaxy Setup window to make them fight to the bitter end.

Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Depending on the circumstances, you might be able to actually trade the new owners for that homeworld.

Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hurr, been playing on version 1.97 the entire time. I just updated to 2.03 and see the new options. I also read through the changelogs (I've never had a crash so why patch?) and man, it wasn't a patch, it was an upgrade!

Looking forward to seeing what's new.

 

So set the game to scattered thanks for the tip :)

 

edit: Actually a question from me. Will setting extreme planets to the highest setting increase overall planets or planet quality? I'm used to seeing a lot of 20+ extreme planets.

Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I didn't get around to doing any research on that, so I don't have actual numbers.  You're right, it does feel like there are more higher quality planets that are extreme, but there's no hard evidence as of yet (to my knowledge) to suggest that it is actually so.

All I can really suggest is that you give it a shot and report back.  :)

@Publius
That option is also available in DA.