[Suicide Junkie]

In stock SE4, there is actually one extra small/rock/methane planet, and one missing small/ice/methane planet.
That is what you are seeing in the methane stats.

To decide an "any" option, the game looks through the sectortypes.txt file, and picks a random planet that matches all of the requirements. (And "constructed" planets like ring/sphereworlds never get randomly chosen - see planetsize.txt for which sizes have constructed := true )

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PS:
If you're planning to capture rock colonization tech early on anyways, sticking with Ice is probably a good idea.
That way you get all three fast, instead of having to hunt down the elusive ice race or spend the 500k points to research it.

[ July 31, 2004, 20:44: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]