How many people set their OWN planet type to ICE??

Daynarr · #1 March 5th, 2001, 11:50 AM

I played a few games with rock/none race and it wasn't that difficult. All those moons help a lot for such race.

alasyr · #2 March 5th, 2001, 01:19 PM

In my Last game for score in small universe I took ice/none because most AI start with rock (ice is second, gas is rarest), none of the AIs start with none (oxygen as CO2 races are plentifull, hydrogen and methane a bit less present).

Nitram Draw · #3 March 6th, 2001, 02:14 AM

I generally pick Gas giant because the smallest I've seen is a medium and most are huge. Once you convert the atmosphere you can build tons of facilities.
I find you get as better game by doing the following:
Pick only colonize home planet type option.
Pick th ehome planet type of the majority of the AI you are adding. If possible choose all players that have the same type of home planet.
This makes all colonizable planets more valuable.

Windborne · #4 March 6th, 2001, 02:30 AM

It's true, rock is the most plentiful in the universe and I consider that to be a major BUG. Just looking at our solar system alone gas giants are present in an equal number to rock with ice planets being the rarety, and ice moons being common.

Of course to really make the game work the way it should you should have an equal chance that any planet created will be ice, gas, or rock, put it at an even 1/3 percent for each type and see what happens, suddenly players would have no clue what type of world to pick at the start!

pathfinder · #5 March 6th, 2001, 02:35 AM

depends on how badly I wanna get beat.

I have picked all three. and started at all 3 tech levels.

Kimball · #6 March 5th, 2001, 03:40 PM

Has anyone sat down and and figured out what the chances are for each planet type vs. atmosphere?

Spyder · #7 March 5th, 2001, 04:00 PM

The Arachnid Consortium uses Gas/Hydrogen. Their frequency is intermittant, but, the catch is that they are almost always large & huge. This helps to balance out the quantity problem for me. The problem *I* have is trying to decide which to research next...Ice or Rock...it seems like I always pick the wrong one

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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

[This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 05 March 2001).]