Gas Giant FIDSI

MadMyke2010 wrote:

The idea of having Food as a naturally occurring resource on gas planets seems a bit silly.

Not necessarily if you also have Deyuvian species in the game.

MadMyke2010 wrote:

And why not just make Temperate all Dust?

That's what I had thought about but it would conflict with then having a Temperate provide no  while Warm would provide some , that wouldn't be intuitive or understandable at all.

Hmm, how about this: Maybe warm and temperate gas planets could also give some ? As in they're a kind of prestigious place to live on? (Sounds a bit silly, to be honest, but anyway.)

I like the way you've split up the FIDS! Or rather, IDS. I would personally prefer sticking with that, rather than any of your other suggestions. That would help with the problem you've talk about elsewhere that the extreme specialization of planets means less depth in gameplay and less interesting choices for exploitations. 

I like this suggestion. Voting for:

Frozen: 26

Cold: 13  13

Temperate: 5  18  3

Warm:  3  18  5

Hot: 13  13

Burning: 26

Gas giant IDS yields from the initial post. Maybe even differentiate Temperate and Warm further:

Temperate: 8  15  3

Warm:  3  15  8

With this setup, though, temperate and warm gas giant    yield actually ends up lower than Deserts, which doesn't make sense if you want to think of gas giants as being extreme.

In regards to gas giants and Deuyvian food production: the Deuyvians are a specialized species, the only ones in-game that evolved on gas giants, so it makes sense that their populations can grow there. I don't think that other species should be able to inherently grow food on gas giants, given their extreme natures.

Currently in the game there are 3 gas giant specific anomalies that give bonuses to dust, science and influence. I think gas planets following a similar theme would be nice.

If you look at Lava/Barren planets at 16 Industry/Science - 2 Dust production, they have 3 starting pop average which makes their total FIDSI output with population taken into consideration at 54 with 48/6 split not even considering the additional bonuses from SSI to production/science because of planetgameplaytype. A Burning/Frozen Gas will have a starting population of 2 for 54 FIDSI output. Given the derth of buildings boosting based on gas planets or population on a gas planet I think the numbers should even be higher.

Frozen: 30 science

Cold: 15 science, 15 Dust

Temperate: 30 Dust

Warm: 10 Influence

Hot: 15 Industry, 15 Dust

Burning: 30 Industry

Give the temperatures in game are cold/temperate/hot i went with those as the transitions. Warm is something only for gas so that's why I made it influence. It could also be renamed to something not dealing with temperature/climate to make it seem less out of place.