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How to get rid of barren, toxic, et al. planets? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Having played Dark Avatar for awhile, I can't seem to get over my annoyance with these planets. Alien races will colonize a planet I can't in my own territory and then get angry at me because of my influence over it. They also don't make sense in that there are plenty of other planets that are PQ 0 that look barren and are uncolonizable. Why? Are they too barren? The way the new planets were executed doesn't make logical sense and while they add to the later game, I'd much prefer to play without

Reply to How can I get rid of those new annoying planets that are toxic and what not? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Gas is a state of matter. There's nothing solid on a gas planet to build a foundation on, unlike an aquatic planet where there's likely solid core deep under the oceans. And a toxic planet's air and atmosphere is poisonous, but it still likely has a solid core. About the uninhabitable planets, I'd guess that some planets simply have no atmosphere and are therefore impossible to colonize. My understanding of a barren world is that it is devoid, life

Reply to How can I get rid of those new annoying planets that are toxic and what not? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I'm a very systematic person, sort of a perfectionist. Borderline Asperger's, I'd guess. The new planets don't look right, and it bothers me that some civilization who gets an ocean tech before me might colonize some planet in the middle of my empire when I don't even want to go to war with them. I like to expand slowly and methodically and this sort of screws up what I like to do. People have really wide ranging tastes with these kinds of things. I can't imagine why someone wouldn't wa

Reply to How can I get rid of those new annoying planets that are toxic and what not? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I'd also like to know how to prevent these new planets from showing up. They look horribly ugly and are pretty annoying.