Restoring +15% PQ Bonus... if that's your thang'

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A lot of people seem miffed that the PQ bonus was nerfed in 1.03 (an equal amount however recognize that itw as unbalancing).

However you can restore that ability (or tweak it) in your own games by making a change in the English.str

Change this:

// planet quality 18
[A18_Option0Text] Green Thumb
[A18_Option0Bonus] 5
[A18_Option0Cost] 3

to this:

// planet quality 18
[A18_Option0Text] Green Thumb
[A18_Option0Bonus] 5
[A18_Option0Cost] 3
[A18_Option1Text] Miracle Worker
[A18_Option1Bonus] 10
[A18_Option1Cost] 7
[A18_Option2Text] Shazam!
[A18_Option2Bonus] 15
[A18_Option2Cost] 9

...and your back in business

NOTE - the developers have decided that this is an unbalancing ability so be advised that this is really akin to "cheating"... giving yourself a significant advantage (mainly because the AI will not be able to take advantage of it like you can.)

You could instead try creating a new political party (the ecologists? planetologists? colonizers???) that get a PQ bonus which would give the AI an opportunity to also pick that political party, but I dunno that they would. Or even if they did pick it, that they would utilize it correctly and colonize lower quality planets...

"Quivering Trid Nodes!" :D
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I.E. posting metaverse scores with the following mod, is probably a bad idea.

;p

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The high PQ option is fun when I'm in mind candy mood - I don't want to work to hard, I just want to snuff aliens. This is a reasonable solution for those times when I just have to exterminate other life forms.

Point taken that it would be bad form to post a win to the metaverse that was based on this mod.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Brian Rock said----The high PQ option is fun when I'm in mind candy mood - I don't want to work to hard, I just want to snuff aliens. This is a reasonable solution for those times when I just have to exterminate other life forms.

Point taken that it would be bad form to post a win to the metaverse that was based on this mod.
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Man where were you last night? I would have hired you as my PR manager on the spot. That is straight on target BINGO to what I meant. It was a fun thing to have to see how really large a planet you can get and to have the advantage so you can pull the AI's chains.

As for the Metaverse I never gave that a thought, for me it's just a place to see my score history. That was probably my error in not stating that upfront. Heck no way I could play enough games to make any difference and if there was a place in the game to see my scoring history I wouldn't use the Metaverse at all.

As long as these things can be changed in mods thats fine. I'm not looking for gross cheats like 10 zillion dollars or all PQ 65 planets, just something to throw some lightness in the game without having to dial the AI all the way down.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
If you want to snuff aliens, simply lower the difficulty.

If you are going to mod the PQ, why not mod it to give you +50% PQ for just 1 point? We already know it's unbalancing, so why just settle for a little cheese?
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Why stop at +50%?
Why make it cost a point at all? LOL

*IF* I ever get time to play the dang game, I might poke around and do this... :)

~SDC~