[quote]Originally posted by Ruatha:
You have 170 planets that fit your atmosphere and planet type, most medium and some large and some huge.
I have explored my share of this galaxy, and there are NO large planets apart from the home planets. Numbers do not tell much, there are a lot of planets in this galaxy - 170 is less than one breathable planet per system.
I haven't counted the asteroid fields but they are counted in hundreds.
Sure, but there are hundreds of systems too. FQMs specialty is, though, a ring containing about 10 - 20 asteroids in nearly every system. In NGC3, set up with FQM, there were thousands, not hundreds of asteroids.
If you instead had gone for rock with same atmosphere you'd had 252 breathable planets, some huge, some large. Alot less medium and many more small and tiny.
Yes I know, rock/huge/my atmosphere is extremly rare also... and, again, only homeworlds appear to be large. I have expected to be able to settle on less, but larger planets. Huge planets only without my atmosphere may be bad luck, but removing all large planets from the game alters it a lot for gas races. Probably adding some mediums does not compensate in any way and dramatically changes the overall structure (needed colony ships, number of population and facilities possible).
I'd say you have approximatly the same amount of facility space, you just gotta find them.
I doubt, but I will try to retain hope. Up to now, all aspects of planets have been distributed very evenly, and I have doubted that the lack of huge/my atmosphere will change in other systems. But, a home system with fewer warp lanes than usual, nebula adjacent, and even a directly adjacent black hole, does not promote exploring very much...
It's the same in all maps, there are fewer gas planets than rock and ice but the facility space is roughly equal.
I expected that, and planned for that: fewer but bigger planets. But I did not expect NO large planets at all. Having only medium planets to live on is a bit depressing for a Gas Planet race.
/rant off
... and I even didn't want to rant. Just vent a bit maybe - and explain why I might turn less attention to this game than I could do. No, I didn't hand over the empire to ministers - yet...
Let me conclude this with the statement, that I *do* like the map and the effort Tesco has put into it, but next time a galaxy is created with one planet type missing and Non-Asteroid FQM a hint would be appreciated very much.