Asteroid strikes and PQ

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Just installed DA yesterday and was running my first game last night. On a small galaxy with five other civs. I think I left mega-events on out of curiosity. I haven't been playing for long but I've already had notifications of two planets destroyed by meteor/asteroid hits. There aren't a huge number of habitable planets on the map so my question is this, are the planets destroyed only ever PQ 0 planets or could the game randomly pick an inhabited world ?

Secondly, is PQ based on your ability to colonise a world ? I ask because I started with barren world colonisation and encountered several barren worlds rated PQ7 to 13. At the same time I ran across aquatic worlds never rating more than PQ4 - is that because I didn't have the appropriate colonisation tech ? I thought that the tech just gave you the ability to land on a planet and eventually remove the productivity deficit, I didn't think it altered PQ.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Your colonisation abilities don't affect how you view PQ, you probably had a bad pick of aquatic worlds on your game. I think the asteroid events specifically target PQ0 planets, but I can't swear by that (I never had one of my planets blow up though).
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I ask because I started with barren world colonisation and encountered several barren worlds rated PQ7 to 13. At the same time I ran across aquatic worlds never rating more than PQ4 - is that because I didn't have the appropriate colonisation tech ?


Nope, the PQ is randomly set when the galaxy is created. Your colonization research has no bearing on it.

are the planets destroyed only ever PQ 0 planets or could the game randomly pick an inhabited world ?


I'm not sure. If you mean the event that blows up a planet and changes it into an asteroid field, I've only encountered that particular one once myself.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In my experience, the event only kills a PQ 0 planet and turns it into an asteroid belt. Or maybe it can do worse and I've just been lucky that way so far. I doubt it's actually a mega event, though, as I get it just about every game and I keep that option off. (I'm looking at you, Jagged Knife.)
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the swift replies, I guess I was just lucky that I had a Yor-friendly and a Torian unfriendly galaxy. I suppose it doesn't matter about the meteor strike event, I imagine there is no way to prevent it so no point in worrying  I just wondered whether some other civ suddenly lost a planet without warning. Gulp
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i've seen it at least 4 times, and it's never hit a habited world. that doesn't mean it can't, of course.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've seen it destroy class 2 planets before, but they were uninhabited. I've seen this event ALOT. But I have yet to have it destroy one on my planets, or I also haven't noticed that it has destroyed another empires planet.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmmm...here we have a game about starfaring races that can
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This event has happened to me once. The only time I have ever encoutered this event it ended up destroying one of my planets! I hade over 8 billion people on it and was around a class 10.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This event has happened to me once. The only time I have ever encoutered this event it ended up destroying one of my planets! I hade over 8 billion people on it and was around a class 10.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmmm...here we have a game about starfaring races that can iform worlds...that can disrupt tides and move tectonic plates remotely from space...that use asteroids on occasion as a pre-invasion barrage.

There darn well BETTER NOT be a way that a random (ahem..unassisted) astroid can hit an inhabited world.


I don't think that has anything to do with it. I had a colony of 8 billion people and I was not at war with anyone but that colony was destroyed by the event.

Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I don't think that has anything to do with it. I had a colony of 8 billion people and I was not at war with anyone but that colony was destroyed by the event.


Mebe there can be a rule that any planet that has a ship with weapons in orbit cannot be destroyed by this event?
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's probably totally random. I've seen it like 5 times, and it's destroyed useless PQ 0's. But Isothewise might be the unlucky one who just happened to have the numbers stack against him.
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think the asteroid event frquency is related to the asteroid setting, but I can't say for sure. My last DA bame last a year and 5 months and I had 4 or 5 asteroid events, but my setting was abundant asteroids. Maybe I was just lucky. Every one was a PQ0, and I was playing on a tiny map with only 9 sectors. There were 28 habitable worlds and 22 PQ0's. 4 asteroid events not hitting a habitable planet is beyond 4 standard deviations of probability, so I feel safe to conclude it only targets PQ0s. I also saw Dread Lords, Pirates, spy swarms, the secret meeting, and the godhood megaevents all in the same game. Whew!!! What luck!!!  
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Post Script: I have max cpu checked in the options menu, could this be related?
Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Post Script: I have max cpu checked in the options menu, could this be related?


That shouldn't have any effect on event frequency.