Different stars

The purples are really good stars but rare (about PQ 26?). On the 0 to 14 planets I have not noticed a correlation with the star color and planet quality. When I colonize 13 & 14 (and 12 with the 5% PQ choice), I get all kinds of stars of different sizes and color.

Rick

~SDC~

Purple stars are yellow stars with an influence bonus, but no bonus to PQ far as I can tell. Purple and yellow always have PQ 15+ planet, yellow stars seem to be worth ~10 influence, and purple ~20.

Notice that when a minor race appears, they convert their star to yellow. I want that tech 8-)

Every other star, regardless of color, will pretty much suck. Rarely, however, you will find a star system with ~50 influence, supposedly from Precurser left overs. Have a party there!

After reading Rabid Bob's post, I should have said that the purple stars I have seen have been higher PQ. But since I have only played about 20 games and not seen many purples, my observations may not extrapolate to whether all purples are good PQ. On the other hand, since I colonize PQ 13 & 14, I can't say they "suck". To me the "it sucks" category belongs to those stars who have no planets that you can't get to PQ15 or more even with both Soil & Habitat 10% PQ bonuses.

Rick

~SDC~

Colonizing the sub 15's is a bit of an ongoing argument, it seems

My take (which is why I say they suck ) is that the sub 15's aren't ever gonna be able to pay well or produce well. GalCiv is set up so that high PQ planets will perform a lot better. After awhile, heck, even those PQ 15 planets start to seem wimpy LOL

All that aside, though, there are times when those sub 15's become attractive. Especially when I'm a long way from being top dog in the galaxy

Or you could just download my new improvements mod and use life-seeding for another 10% bonus.

I just tried your improvements. They're fun! But probably not for the long term, at least for me. The main thing is that it's unbalancing: the AI doesn't realize that Improved Environmental Control is now a great tech, and doesn't research it until late game.
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