Precursor planet?

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In my latest game, I found a class 14 planet with a standard influence of 50. I wonder if this is some kind of special planet, like a precursorplanet or so.
Because most systems have an influence rating of 20 to start with.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
It's odd, sometimes if you list the star sytems by influence you get empty systems quite high up the list.

I was able to turn one game around just by settling on a cruddy PQ14 in a unpopulated star system which for some reason had high influence.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The colour of the star has a big effect on planetary influence. I think purple stars are considered particularly cool.

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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I had a blue star that I colonised with one cruddy planet (PQ14), that I upgraded to PQ18.

A little while later, I checked it. It had a few million population (no more than 120mil), and an influence nearly as high as my home system with its 3 planets (one of which was PQ26) and 13 billion population! It's not like the planet had many culture increasing modules or anything, and was quite a distance from any of my other systems.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
really??
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Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
In my current game the best star with the highest influence is a white star with one PQ14 planet. Before I settled it, it was way over Sol and I something like +100% influence from tech and starbases. Now it has an influence of 80 and the planet is PQ16 with 2.6B pop and News Network.