Planet exploration (Aritifact) stages

If I change the number of stages in planet exploration, say from 2 to 4, does that increase the chances to find artifacts and natural resources? Or are those sorts of things encoded elsewhere?

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I'm not sure if it'll actually increase your chances or not, it might just add two more researchable stages to the planet exploration upgrade. However, for the planet bonuses this will be pointless as you'd have to mod every planet bonus so that it could appear in the two new stages. The easiest way to change artifact/resource chance is an option in the .galaxy map files, but obviously that would only apply to the map you changed.

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Or make new ones that only show up later... I hadn't realized they were tied into specific levels...  Thanks Gao, it gives me something new to think about trying.

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Artifacts are coded in when the map is generated I believe. My reason for saying this being that surrenduring and then continuing to observe will so show all artifacts on the map, even those not yet discovered by other players.