Re: Are gas giants really an advantage?
I have a spreadsheet someone put together, I do not remember who did it, but to summarize the results they are as follows: 48% Rock, 24% Gas, 28% Ice. Ice are clearly at a disadvantage because they get small worlds. Gas get half as many as rock, but the worlds are bigger. Rock have more chances at ruins than gas. I favor lots of small worlds over a few big worlds because that gives you more places to build shipyards early on so you can spend those resources building more colonizers. One element that favors Gas Giant races is they get more benefit from Industrial computers than other races because they can get 10 facilities on a planet more often so that a 10% computer is worth building. Another element that favor Gas races is they get more Population bonuses on their worlds. However, that bonus comes no where close to making up for half as many worlds.
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