About the Precursor Worlds and Mega Events DLCs

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Will Mega Events ever be available for multiplayer? I would have thought twice about buying it had I known it doesn't support multiplayer.

Also is there a way to reduce the spawn rate of precursor worlds? 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I thought less extreme planets generally meant less precursor as well. 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Why would you want to reduce them?

just curious on this... I find them rather rare as it is.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Sponsoring one shipyard with multiple precursor worlds can be lots of fun.  I had one shipyard where one sponsor drastically increased all the ships' life support range, another sponsor which increased their hit points, and another which increased their sensors.   I could add a fourth which buffed their kinetic weapons, but it was far away.   That shipyard produced all my warships for that game.  I buffed that star system with economic starbases.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I quite enjoy having precursor planets. But the number of precursor planets seemed to be a bit high considering the number of normal habitable planets in the map.

Could it be because I was playing on small~medium maps?

Does the number scale according to map size?

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ah...  it might not..


I almost never play on anything smaller than Large, and usually in Gigantic...     There are usually 10-12 minor Precursors and perhaps 4-8 majors on a map from what I've seen average...

When playing with 15+ civs on a huge map that's not really that many....     the last game I won, I had over 120 worlds by the end.

Reply #6 from Stardock.net Forums Top

yeah the maps sizes below large play quite differently. And if your not playing scattered then you could wind up with 50 or less planets and get 5+ be precusor. whereas n bigger maps it seems like you could get over 200 planets and stay around 10ish precuror.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Oh, I see. So it's an intended feature?

 

And also what about Mega Events? Will they ever be available for multiplayer?

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I like Precursor worlds.  Gives the planets some unique character (which I had requested before Galciv3 development started).    Now, if you had 5 Precursor Prisons on the same map, all with the same ideology choices, not as much.  Even then, though, if you have a PQ18 Precursor Prison with Arnor spice vs. another PQ18 regular planet with Arnor spice, both have different tile layouts--you still have some different character to them.