The gas giants etc...

[BearMan]

are just there for the look of it or ?
Can I somehow make use of em ?
I should atleast be able to mine em ?

// Galactic Civilizations Noob

 

[Lars_Domus]

Wether a planet is useful is determined by it's class. Sometimes planets with gas giant-like graphics are habitable - I think it's all just random. As far as I know, unihabitable planets are completely useless.

 

[warpstorm]

There are occasionally random events which upgrade the level 0 planets.

 

[Kamilian]

i kinda expected the habitable or non-habitable to depend more on the race itself - like humans, they're oxygen-breathers so they prefer planets that are more akin to earth and don't have a thinner, or even a more high-pressure, atmosphere. so only SOME of the nominally-habitable planets would be ideal for humans. then for another race, if they're non-oxygen-breathing, other planets would be ideal for them while the oxygen worlds would have to go through terraforming.
that's one thing i liked in MoO - not all habitable planets were good locations for specific races. it made it much more interesting and competitive to find the right planets.
EDIT: in MoO, with that system, for some beings, even the gas giants were habitable

 

[Neomega]

One of those things I disliek abotu this game.

Most planets are useless, even as mining colonies.

 

[woodelf]

Agreed. Even at the highest techs you can't do anything with them. Give me something to eventually do with every planetary body!

 

[Pentium]

Some of them have tiles that can be "unlocked" by terraforming, I think. Somebody told me that he saw an AI ship colonizing a Class 0 planet.

 

[Swiss Bezerker]

I think terraforming only unlocks tiles on planets already above level 0

 

[BearMan]

After playing a little, and still haven't found any use for the uninhabitable planets.

I think they should be alteast mine:able, and move all the resourses (influence, military, research, and economy to the uninhabitable planets)

And also hide em so one won't find em until one mines the planet.
So when u build a mine on the planet, you either get a normal mine, or a special resourse mine ;-)

This would make the distances between stars feel longer (which i say is a good thing), since one won't have starbases in the middle of nowhere mining interstellar space .

can we have this as an option in an upcomming patch, Draginol ?

 

[smjjames]

pretty cool to have the designer of the game on here