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Choosing a planet...

#1
How can you see the details of the planet you want to colonize. Or the colonized planet are given randomly? Does the slots 1-5 have higher temperature because teoreticaly they are closer to the star (sun) that is give solar energy and the ones from 10-15 slots have low temperature because they are more far away from the star(sun)? And how can you see the size of the planet also, before u try to colonize it?

I would apreciate a detailed information about how to choose a planet.

Thank you.

(sorry for my poor english hope i made myself understandable)

Re: Choosing a planet...

#2
wakynel wrote:How can you see the details of the planet you want to colonize. Or the colonized planet are given randomly?
- your first planet that you start with is called home world is given randomly placed within universe generally populating one galaxy at a time and incrementing and then rotating back to the first galaxy as the later ones gets populated upto a certain point.

initially all home world used to have 163 fields but new update states all home world has 180 fields to start with.

you can have maximum 21 planets [1 home world + 20 colonies]. you start colonization with colony ships that u send on colonization mission to a coordinate [a tupple of Galaxy/System/Slot] that is not colonized as in there is no planet in that location. on arrival a new world [planet] is created and that is your colony. Colonies 4-6 and 14 and from them outward the field count goes down so 4-6 and 14 are possibly the biggest planets in a system.

Here is a video guide that might help u to understand better.
Video Guides
wakynel wrote:Does the slots 1-5 have higher temperature because teoreticaly they are closer to the star (sun) that is give solar energy and the ones from 10-15 slots have low temperature because they are more far away from the star(sun)?
- From shot 1 to slot 15 the planet temperature decreases due the much agreed sun proximity. high Temperature is good for energy production [good for graviton tech] and low is good for deut production [general deut mines savvy].
wakynel wrote:And how can you see the size of the planet also, before u try to colonize it?
- you cannot. its a random assignment. if u do not like the colony try some other coordinate after disbanding this one. the link is available on the Overview as a link "planet name". when clicked it takes u to disband menu that requires password confirmation.


Hope the above helps.
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Re: Choosing a planet...

#3
If you are looking for high deuterium yields, then go for slot 14. What you are looking is a 300+ planet size with a double minus temperature. (You can have more than 500 max fields in xtreme.)
eg:
From -76°C to -36°C
Size 21.975 km (0 / 300 fields)
It may take some tries to get something like that and it is costly when you just started on Standard and Speed.

The problem starts when you notice that the dueterium mines take up a lot of energy (about 25+ mine lvls) Around this time the Power Plant will be too costly. You would have to start building solar sats but the sats only produce minimal energy because of the low temperature. So you would have to build lots of solar sats + more defense to defend them.
This is not a problem when you are a turtle since you will be having lots of useless defenses anyway.
Solar sats and defense are mostly a liabilty to fleeter specially if you are fond of wars.

You only need 1 high temp planet for the graviton.

PS
It's hard to tell how detailed the explanation you need, so it would be easier of you asked a direct question.
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Re: Choosing a planet...

#5
Based on what u guys said above, planets closer to sun should give u more energy, and those far from sun should produce more deuterium.

I just colonized my first 2 planets, and i got the 4th and the 14th planet, and surprise, i got the same values for deuterium and energy on all of my planets. Did i missed something? I got something wrong?
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