How does planet frequency and habitable planet frequency work in the settings?

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In the galaxy settings, how do the frequency settings work?  Are they additive?  For instance, if you have set the planets to common and you get 100 planets, will it then add the habitable planets for a total of 120?  Or does the number of planets remain constant and you still have 100 planets but maybe 20 are habitable?

And as a follow-up question:  If you have set planets rare and habitable planets rare, do you get more habitable planets if you set stars to abundant as opposed to rare?

Noob question maybe, but I've always wondered about this.

Thanks!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Star, planet, habitable planet, and extreme planet affect each other in sequence order but planet, habitable planet, and extreme planet compliment each other.

More star mean more chance that you will have more planet in total. More planet mean you will encounter a star system that has planets instead of just lone star with nothing, and having more of them. However, these planets are Dead Planet (Class 0) which will be upgrade to habitable planet dictated by the setting itself. Then how many of those will turn into extreme planet is also depend on it's own setting.

I like to play with Rare star then abundant of all planet settings. It made more sense that way.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting FreedomFighterEx, reply 1

Star, planet, habitable planet, and extreme planet affect each other in sequence order but planet, habitable planet, and extreme planet compliment each other.

More star mean more chance that you will have more planet in total. More planet mean you will encounter a star system that has planets instead of just lone star with nothing, and having more of them. However, these planets are Dead Planet (Class 0) which will be upgrade to habitable planet dictated by the setting itself. Then how many of those will turn into extreme planet is also depend on it's own setting.

Thanks, that's what I was thinking - Planets are set and then it is decided if they are habitable or not.

I like to play with Rare star then abundant of all planet settings. It made more sense that way.

Interesting: I prefer common stars and rare habitable planets because that's how things really are, we have lots of stars but few habitable planets.  Although the dead systems do get in the way.  (Speaking of which, when do we get terraforming in this game?)

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Even with rare star, a lot of them still spawn. It just enough to create a gap between each system so things are not too cluster to each other. At lease it made me not encounter other major race at neck breath distant. I really would like to have only one massive blackhole since 10-20 blackholes spawn in same galaxy make no damn sense.