Not if you go in to the race config and make it so that every race has +2000 PQ bonus....

I had a planet hit twice by the 'double your planet size' special event.

PQ 54. Kind of embarassing amount of stuff can be put on 54 tiles...

Lperegrin

exactly...

I do not care about the PQ of a planet.. if I only have 24 usable tiles.. the rest is mute.. since the high PQ doesn't equate to somekind of an equivalent bonus...


and one beef I have with the AI still... sometimes they forget the really good planets right near then.. annoying...

they way the AI can re-model it's ships and adjust on the fly to combat situations, they should do the same with their colonization of systems....

In a previous game I colonised a PQ 26 planet, got a % increase of PQ as an evil option which I selected and it bumped up to 32 PQ. When I researched Xeno ethics, switched to Neutral alignment, it changed to PQ 47...cant for the life of me see how it increased this much.

I also agree with Moiiska, pre-colony rush the AI will often colonise a PQ 8 planet prior to a PQ 26 that is 2 squares away (and well within AI ship range) and the PQ26 planet will sit invitingly open for a considerable period.

Makes me wonder...does the AI on higher level KNOW what tiles are available on planets prior to colonising? If so this might explain it colonising a much smaller planet with good bonus tiles prior to a large planet with little or no bonus tiles.

He could have got the planet guality the following ways. He got have added lots of PQ bonus (as mentioned above), he could used a cheat, or he could have got a class 26 and got an event and terraformed it.

I'll tell you how I did it. I didn't modify any configs or cheat. Basically I played Yor then set my PQ bonus to 20% using 8 points, it started out as a PQ26 I think then I aligned neutral and jumped up to 58. It didn't have 58 tiles though but it was pretty much full

That PQ 47 planet i had shouldnt have increased that much...from 32 to 47...15 tiles, normally u get 6 extra tiles due to instant terraforming etc on a PQ 26 to go to PQ 32. No cheats were used nor were there any other events apart from the initial evil bonus selection when colonising.

In the current game Im playing I colonised a PQ 26 planet and had a 27% PQ increase by selecting the evil option and the PQ increased to 33, it subsequently increased to 50 once I finished research Xeno ethics and turned Neutral...thats over a 50% increase on the boosted PQ!

Dude thats awesome!!!



GCII Moderator

lol I just started a new game and look at my homeplanet!