2 many planets

from GalCiv3 Forums

I have tried both star frequency and planet frequency on Occasional .

My habitable planets are rare and still get lots of habitable planets.

My goal is to get a BIG universe (Ludicrous) with lots of stars but colonizable planets few and far between.

Could you adjust the numbers of add a choice with less planets then rare.

14,280 views 4 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Best would be to give us direct control in the settings (with a hint and default values what is reasonable per galaxy size):

- Directly specify number of stars (up to a limit depending on galaxy size).

- Directly specify number of planets (up to a limit depending on galaxy size). Allow stars without planets (don't know right now whether those exist already) so that if number of planets is lower than number of stars that's no problem.

- Specify number of habitable planets as percentage from number of planets.

- Specify number of extreme planets as percentage from number of habitable planets.

- Specify number of asteroid fields as percentage from number of stars.

Leave the current settings in as means to randomize the galaxy or add to all of the above settings a randomize possibility that creates numbers at around, say, +/- 50% of default values.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

When  went to uncommon for stars and planets all worked fine.

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yeah we really get to many habitable planets on rare,

~500 on a the biggest map when the max is 640 seems just not right.

 

also even if you mod it to allow more habitable planets you only get ~1000 on abundant,

which seems wierd seeing that the modifier in the xml ranges from 0.1(rare) to 66(abundant)

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

yup tried all combos at lud and basically its like this

you are stuck with 40-60 planets(with settings that got you 200ish in GC3) next combo up is 140ish planets then if you bring anything up boom 400+. Imo the way this is done is just too complicated for no good reason. 

There has to be a decent amount of people who have played soo much that if we are going to invest many days worth of hours of playtime we kinda want to play on a map setup the way we want. Personally i feel 200ish planets on the largest map is the perfect spot for a big universe but not just colony spam and so far i cannot see to get there.