They have been made much rarer. Asteroids in particular make the manufacturing bonuses redundant since they serve a similar purpose (and they can be directed to any nearby planet, not just one like bonus tiles).

They have been made much rarer. Asteroids in particular make the manufacturing bonuses redundant since they serve a similar purpose (and they can be directed to any nearby planet, not just one like bonus tiles).

AAAAGGGHHH that sounds terrible!

Also asteroids are only for locating AI flagships and making contact, not for us to actually 'collect'.... er, are we actually supposed to beat the AI to the asteroids now??? thats not good, not good at all, well not good for us unlucky players - Me, i always seem to manage to go exactly where the asteroids are not. If i could set asteroids to 'zero' i would happily do so, but for now i have to be content with 'rare'.

Yea so for us unlucky players, these changers are a disaster.

The asteroids sound cool but actually using them and have them give a bonus to planet production really didn't amount to a hill of beans in the thick of things. Even if you stack em all on one planet. meh.

I'll take the tile bonuses back, please.

It's prob best bonus tiles are a bit rarer especially on the homeworld. The AI's are still pretty dodgy at using bonus tiles in beta2b though. I've seen them not build the appropriate building on a precursor bonus tile for example.

In beta2B they're about as common as they were before.

Nice.

Thank you Frogboy for squashing rumors.

Now..

sweet... that + the amazing astroids... mmmmm time to build fleet from a single planet

Don't jinx it. I'm one of the few who don't Ctrl-N over and over to get a bonus, I take what I am given usually. So when I do see a bonus on one of my worlds, I am very happy cause its not every world. Nor is it usually the bonus you'd ideally want but I'll take it anyway   

I'm glad to hear that bonus tiles are back... I started my first game of DA last night, and didn't find ANY for several planets. I was worried.

For me, bonus tiles are one of the most fun parts of the game! There's nothing quite like the thrill of "discovering" some on your new planet. Plus, they give planets a unique character, helping distinguish one from the next. Then the name of the planet really MEANS something, like I know Skowbo III is my bread basket (pop/econ world due to the farming/morale bonus) and Arcea is my industrial center (due to a factory bonus).

Me, i love CNTRL+N, it is a very big part of the enjoyment of the game

The thing about ctrl-n that I said in the other thread on this same topic is that you may be missing out on far better luck than a homeworld tile bonus or two by doing this.

Last game I had no homeworld tile bonuses but ended up with a PQ32 econ capital producing 5,000 bc per turn and a PQ38 tech capital producing 12,000 RP's per turn. These were the 2nd and 4th planets I colonized respectively. If I had used ctrl-n because of no homeworld bonuses, I would have missed out on the best galaxy and highest scoring game that I've ever had.

If you want to use ctrl-n that's fine and it's your choice to do so. I'm just suggesting that you may only be hurting yourself.

I'm no CTRL+N junkie, but I've never hesitated to use the command to ditch a gigantic-map game when I finally see that my whole local region is a wasteland.

I didn't say that I *never* use it, I was just suggesting that all luck doesn't consist of how many bonus tiles are on your home planet. The case you outline seems a perfect time to pull the trigger.

But things like being right next to a strong opponent is something I think wouldn't automatically qualify. I prefer to have some elbow room to develop, but if someone’s right on top of me perhaps it's time to dust off a rush to planetary invasion and take him out early. If you don't accept some level of adversity you're just going to play the same game over and over.

But if I find myself surrounded by five opponents, there's nothing dishonorable about a discrete ctrl-n. After all, discretion *is* the better part of valor.