Hi!
Planet quality reperesents the number of usable tiles. So when you make new tiles usable with building terraforming or with neutral's instaforming, the PQ should also rise.

BR, Iztok

Actually, Alex, the effect of Neutral alignment that the OP describes is correct for Gal Civ 2: Dread Lords. Neutral Alignment choice in DL makes all tiles of all planets immediately available. It makes a quick research run to Xeno Ethics and Neutral in DL VERY powerful.

Clearly the OP is playing Dread Lords, because the situation that he describes with a Class 10 planet having 1 yellow tile, then becoming a Class 11 with 3 orange tiles cannot occur in Dark Avatar. In Dark Avatar, a Class 10 planet will have 1 yellow tile, then when that is terraformed, it will be Class 11 with 1 orange tile, never more than that.

Santa,
In Dark Avatar, the Neutral alignment effect on terrain is nerfed down a bit. If you have researched Xeno Ethics and chosen Neutral, you must still develop the technology to improve each class of tiles. However, once the technology is available you do NOT have to spent Social Prod effort to individually convert each tile; they automatically become available for buildings(turn green).

BTW, the Orbital Terraformer IS useless for a civ of Neutral Alignment; but it is very valuable for someone playing Good or Evil.

PQ# always improves to match the number of usable tiles, no matter how the tiles are made available. When PQ goes over 10, the planet does get the 10% Morale boost.

drrider

drrider

In DA, NLCs are still the megaliths of Research, but the economy is much tighter so its really work to establish a whole planet of them. You've got to have 2-3 big all economy planets to support the effort. Of course, if you do get it all balanced out and start stacking up those econ SB's to inflate the output even more, you can eventualy create a single homeworld that is cranking out 5000+ research points per turn. Yum.

drrider