Atmosphere types

JurijD · #1 April 19th, 2004, 05:59 PM

Do all atmospheres have an equal probability of existance on each of the planet types?

exmaple: in the long run... do we get the same number of Rock Oxygen as we get for exmple Ice Hydrogen planets? or any other combination.... (except Gas None

Baron Munchausen · #2 April 19th, 2004, 06:23 PM

Nope. Oxygen/rock is by far the most common type of planet in the default game. Carbon dioxide and methane seem to be next in frequency. Like so many other parts of the game you can get whatever distribution you want by modifying the right config files, hough.

spoon · #3 April 19th, 2004, 06:34 PM

Rock/None and Ice/None are the most common, because of all the moons. But if you don't count moons, then there are slightly more Rock/Methanes than anything else. This is due to what appears to be a typo (cut-n-paste error probably) in the config files whereby what should be a small Ice/Methane planet got marked as a small Rock/Methane planet instead. (meaning, of course, that there are less ice/methane planets...)

Fyron · #4 April 19th, 2004, 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Nope. Oxygen/rock is by far the most common type of planet in the default game. Carbon dioxide and methane seem to be next in frequency.

That just is not true. Other than None atmospheres, the planet types and atmospheres are fairly balanced, other than the Methane issue which Spoon has mentioned.

Fatigue is not a good thing...

[ April 19, 2004, 18:26: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

tesco samoa · #5 April 19th, 2004, 07:21 PM

i always find that what ever i pick has the least amount... I call it the Tesco Start...

Fyron · #6 April 19th, 2004, 07:23 PM

Yeah, but that is just due to you being Tesco, not due to the data files.

All the planets you would like are far away in other empires' territories.

Ragnarok · #7 April 19th, 2004, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
...other than the Methane issue which Phoenix-D has mentioned.

PD posted in this thread?

Fyron · #8 April 19th, 2004, 07:26 PM

Whoops! No, it was Spoon. I need more sleep...

Arkcon · #9 April 19th, 2004, 07:53 PM

Juri, this question come up often, you're asking which atmosphere comes up most. That's easy, just take ancient race, and count the planets screen.

A related question, what atmosphere type gives the most facilitys, depends not only on the distribution of atmospheres, but planet size and type as well. There's have a little (slightly screwy) description here {Wiki} , which actually links back here to an old post by Andres Lescano

Ragnarok-X · #10 April 19th, 2004, 08:29 PM

are there actually ANY Gas Giants without atmosphere ?! If not, is there any reason to pick Gas Giant / None combination ?!