<t> I think that forcing ironman on casual players would be a bad idea. Bugs and save game corruption are real concerns.<br/>
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There also seems to be some misunderstanding here about psuedorandom number generators. They typically work off a seed provided by the system clock, so the operator ...

<t> The reason you can't generate non-arid worlds is (to my understanding) due to the lack of navies. The game doesn't support islands or continents yet, so the planets need to have a relatively low amount of water, which makes them arid.<br/>
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So no, I do not believe you can get non-dry/arid ...

<t> I don't think the question is which scale is superior, or how easy it is to learn to intuit a new way of measuring things. The question is what leads to the best gameplay experience for the end user.<br/>
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If Vic wants to make the game more fun and understandable for his American ...

<r> Given that ruins show up with a pre-collapse population in the millions, and a population of billions cause massive continent sized city sprawls, I think ruins represent less "wall to wall cityscape" and more a central city with sprawling suburbs or the like. It makes sense to me for tiles to ...

<t> Siwa only guarantees that there might be some form of life, maybe. It does take a lot of rerolling or luck if you want specific parameters like a lot of ruins on a breathable world.<br/>
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For example: Some players are getting megacity planets with 5B+ initial population. As it stands, if ...

<t> As it stands, when you look at a leader's profile, it will show an asterisk next to skills used in their current position; however, when you're selecting filling an empty position it doesn't show that marker since the character is not yet employed in that position.<br/>
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I would really ...