Zenox drew the short straw with colony suitability
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:01 pm
I think the RND for Zenox worlds is broken.
The ice planets have lower base suitability than desert planets as Savannah quality range starts at 35-55 whereas Tundra starts at 30-60.
Zenox only get +25 on their best world type Ice Tundra when Teekan get +30 for theirs. This is a real penalty for Zenox, if you do the math, because it means their best quality Tundra colony only cancels out 5 less suitability boost but at the low end of the quality range they lose colonies which they cannot colonise equal to a sixth i.e. 16.7% of the world type because the minimum colony they can colonise is 35 and the world range is 30-60.
Whereas Teekan can colonise anything 30+ which means all their planets.
That is theory. In reality e.g. my current game with NORMAL colony prevalence, I surveyed over 50 systems to a range of over 100m and found a dozen ice worlds including 6 Tundra planets and only one of these had a suitability over 20. In a recent teekan game with RARE prevalence, they had four Teekan desert planet colonies at this stage due to an abundance of habitable desert planets with suitability over 20. So Zenox have in practice less than half of what Teekan get.
Out of the five unusable Tundra planets, two have quality 26% which should not even be possible, they are supposed to start at 30% which looks broken to me, how can they be less than the minimum quality range for the planet type?
I just feel like something is broken for ice worlds and the Zenox.
The ice planets have lower base suitability than desert planets as Savannah quality range starts at 35-55 whereas Tundra starts at 30-60.
Zenox only get +25 on their best world type Ice Tundra when Teekan get +30 for theirs. This is a real penalty for Zenox, if you do the math, because it means their best quality Tundra colony only cancels out 5 less suitability boost but at the low end of the quality range they lose colonies which they cannot colonise equal to a sixth i.e. 16.7% of the world type because the minimum colony they can colonise is 35 and the world range is 30-60.
Whereas Teekan can colonise anything 30+ which means all their planets.
That is theory. In reality e.g. my current game with NORMAL colony prevalence, I surveyed over 50 systems to a range of over 100m and found a dozen ice worlds including 6 Tundra planets and only one of these had a suitability over 20. In a recent teekan game with RARE prevalence, they had four Teekan desert planet colonies at this stage due to an abundance of habitable desert planets with suitability over 20. So Zenox have in practice less than half of what Teekan get.
Out of the five unusable Tundra planets, two have quality 26% which should not even be possible, they are supposed to start at 30% which looks broken to me, how can they be less than the minimum quality range for the planet type?
I just feel like something is broken for ice worlds and the Zenox.