Re: Starting Planet Type question.
Started two games (demo) lately - found "Hydrogen breather/Gas Giants/Biotech" a truely devastating combination.
While there are shurely more rock/ice planets, you shouldn't forget one thing - you must look at "rock" resp. "ice" seperatly .. and than odds aren't that much in favour of them.
And if you count the "facility slots" available in one system, it would most likely come out as a draw at best.
But don't forget - "robo factory" and similar buildings favour the "big ones" ... and you can always put up some Starbases with spaceyards in it to get the same "ship output per time".
Only drawback I found so far is that most "ancient ruins" are on rock/ice planets, but this may be too random to be shure about from 2 or 3 games - any comments?
Arralen
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As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
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