So right now I'm experimenting with the Custom Faction builder after having played with United Empire countless times. I wanted to create a race of Desert Warriors but to my disappointment I found that we cannot get Desert Planets as our homeworld. It's mind-boggling that we can choose an Arid planet, which is by several orders of magnitude more useless than Desert planets. My questions then are: 1) Was this intended or a bug? 2) If it's intended, can we have Desert homeworlds in a future patch?

And please, nobody be a smart-alec and say "Well you can choose an Arid planet."

With the exception of Arid planets, all the planet types that are more difficult to settle are not available as a home planet. I'm not sure myself why arid is even available, and I don't think there are any plans to change the selection of possible home planets for custom factions.

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

With the exception of Arid planets, all the planet types that are more difficult to settle are not available as a home planet.

My grievance exactly. So no desert warriors for me? *is sad*

And if you do, please let us know how your desert warriors turned out.

Thanks. They will be mighty for sure. The Berbers from Age of Empires 2 are my inspiration.

Tatooine?

With pod racing. And Jawas.

Tatooine: A DESERT planet with TWO suns. I'd rather live in a Jungle.

As an addendum to this topic, I WOULD like to see the starting planet list flipped when making a custom faction with reverse terraforming, as it makes no sense to have a custom race that starts on an ocean but can only colonize lava and ice planets...