FIDSI Stars

I kinda like the idea of the stars, but.....

nah....

Though I will agree to the rest, and voted because of that.

Currently, there seems to be NO relation to the star description and the reality of the planets in those systems.   I've had predominantly hot planets with stars that are supposedly going to have 'cold'.   And all options in between.

I don't even bother with my Heros and their specific bonuses toward 'hot' or 'cold', it just doesn't seem to make enough of a difference when it's all done.    

It says right in the star descriptions that they have only a slightly higher chance of producing this or that planet type. Realistically, that makes sense, because there is no hard and fast association between a star type and a planetary environment in real life. However, that's not making it any more fun or easy for us, the players, to care at all about any given system because we can't tell at a glance, in an abstract way, how valuable or specialized any system is.

This isn't helped by the fact that there is currently a weird planet grid, as mentioned in another idea. Even if a star produces cold worlds, we have to go digging and read each individual planet to determine if those worlds are science based or something else. On top of this, flat bonuses on planets don't really matter in ES2, because the population produces all FIDSI simultaneously. There is no switching your population around between FIDSI like in Endless Legend, so the flat FIDSI bonuses aren't "picking up the slack" when your population isn't working a particular FIDSI. Micromanaging your population is just more difficult, for not as obvious of a result.

Unless stars will have an absolute, unbreakable connection with certain planet types (themselves bound to certain FIDS), the only other solution I can think of is to tie the systems FIDS specialization to the stars themselves to make up for the difference.

I really like both parts of this idea. Suns applying an FISDI bonus to their planets makes each system unique and gives you a reason to care what kind of star you settle. Right now, its all about the planets. The type of star affecting the planets that orbit them makes a lot of sense. However, as you said, the wonky planet system will have to be changed for it to make a bit more sense with the temperatures and such. Both of these changes would make the star a much more important part of deciding where you settle, rather than just the planets, which I think is a good thing. 

I like the idea to get more coherents systems, and planets depeding of type of star.

The common yellow star give a balanced system with a good mix of differents planets.

Some specials stars could give :

- system with mostly cold planets

- system with mostly hot planets

- system with mostly dead planets

Endless could have manipulated planets orbitals and constructed also living system with mostly temperate, thundra, mediterranean.

I feel this techs are not enough specialised.

Why a improvement should give a flat +bonus industry indendantly of the planet type ?

You can't exploit a gaz planet the same way of a terran one.