star colour?

The only colour I can think of that would give such a bonus is those odd purple stars that also have habitable planets in them.

but how big is the bonus about?

I dont think the bonuses are that large. Maybe just a little bit more than normal.

Around 10 influence points, IIRC. Not much at first, but it can add up after improvements/starbases.

~SDC~

Never seen a yellow star with a non-habitable planet. Never seen a non-yellow star with a habitable planet (except for the 'pink' influence planet).

Anybody else see anything different?

I've seen blue stars with 14's around them. If you took the +5% PQ bonus, and build soil enhancement and habitat improvement on them, you get 17's.

Iv'e seen yellow stars with only lower than habitable planets, but only after I've used mass launchers on them.

Heh. I have also seen a formerly inhabited yellow system become unowned and lower than PQ 15. An alien was playing scorched earth with another alien and obviously abandoned the colony after the take-over had lowered the PQ.

Yeah, I like it when Sol is a purple star. Obviously, because our ozone layer got destroyed, our scietists deployed a chemical to block the UV rays. As a side effect, Sol is now bright purple! The fact that the lead scientist on the project was a punk rocker is, of course, a coincidence. LOL

Plus, did you know about Counter Earth? All those comic book references to another Earth orbiting on the opposite side of the sun are actually true! We've decided to call the planet "Sol IV" until the inhabitants have decided on a new name, but so far there has been much controversy.

GalCiv is so cute some times. Just say no to the Pokemon event!

I like advanced slavery myself. "Just like old times only in the future" that cracked me up the first time I researched that.

I'm trying to be more active here, so A question as well. Are Purple Stars Nuetron Stars? I can't imagine why they would be, cause the gravity would destroy any life on the planets. But, maybe not? :shrugs:

Purple stars don't exist in real life as far as I know, perhaps it's just to distinguish between bonus giving stars and plain old stars. Neutron stars would have swirling gases around it and black holes would not be seen unless theres another star nearby.

Neutron stars are the white ones aren't they?

I thought the Sol system was purple because at some point in the future they unthawed The Artist Formerly Know As, and he became ruler of the solar system

LOL thats a good one!

I want to see binary star systems in which settlement planets get torn appart by gravitational shear at the most inconvinient moment in a game . . . not!

I wanta see comets and meteorits causing catastrophies without 'disgression' (but only on evil players aka a divine act!) . . . not!

I wanta have virtualy unidentifyable fatal anomalies like black holes and exploding red giants scattered here and there on the map to keep every civilization on its toes (I'm not sure they all have toes . . . its a figure of speech) . . . actually that would be neat!

What was the question again? Oh yes star colours . . . I think thier pretty! And by all accounts look even nicer in 1.09.



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so there is only 2 differnt star colours that matter then? yellow for higher chance of habitable planets, and purple for higher influence, and the rest doesnt matter, right?

one thing that would be neat is to have dyson sphere's in the game. of course this make the game unbalanced, whatever player that is lucky enough to get one would have an unreal advantage over everyone. maybe it could be researved for special "arena" type games, where the galactic map is not random, but made. put one dyson sphere right in the middle of the map, and all the players are put on the edges of the map, that way everyone has to fight for it. maybe even have it controlled by a minor, that way they will stay just on that system only, but if you want it, you have to fight them for it.

Though the other stars aren't as good as yellow or purple, I still colonize many orange, green, blue and white systems. Never underestimate the power of 14PQ planets!!

I found a Blue star that was unihabitable that had an influence rating of 46. Whats that about?

If you play evil, then even "lesser" stars can be enormously useful if you get a PQ-boosting event, especially in combo with the PQ boost ability you can buy at the start of the game. Of course, if you get those on better stars... I once had a base PQ 26 planet go directly to PQ 37 as I colonized it!

In fact why are there stars with no PQ rating? What is there purpose?
Sometimes they have influence ratings, is this influence then given as a bonus to the sector owner?

They're purpose is just for decoration. In real life there are plenty of stars without planets.
Also-the dyson sphere would be really cool, but I'd like to see a ringworld too.

Recall reading somewhere - the manual, most likely - that 4 factors affect star influence:

Star quality
Planet quality
Physical position in the galaxy
Traces of a Precursor civilization on that world in the distant past

The last two seem unpredictable to say the least. I've been tempted to colonize a PQ 10 planet with a high influence rating and then build influence starbases in the region just to see what would happen, but I haven't been that desperate for influence yet.

A planet's influence is also affected by it's planet quality and it's population. Influence 0 stars will gain influence after they're colonized by virtue of the population of the system.

On non-purple stars, base influence is generally between 0 and 3 points. Greens have a slightly better chance of having higher influence before colonization. Purples almost always have a higher influence.

The 46 influence blue mentioned earlier was probably a fluke in the map generator. Strange things happen once in a while.

~SDC~

Read Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward....

-- Only the cheela can survive on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star with surface gravity sixty-seven billion times that of earth's--but when a monstrous starquake strikes, human astronauts must abandon them or die saving the cheela from extinction. --

Dragon's Egg or Star Quake?

Or they the same book published with different titles?