Gas giants Good or Bad?

Onnotangu · #1 January 29th, 2002, 02:02 AM

i am trying to plan out starts to survive in this great and difulct game and i noticed the gas giants. is there any strats or advice for starting as a gas giant race?

Phoenix-D · #2 January 29th, 2002, 04:08 AM

Gas giant planets are both rarer and larger than normal planets- no gas giant moons, for example. In short, it places a premium on your colonies- you'll have fewer to protect, but each one you loose will hurt more.

Other than that, no huge effects.

Phoenix-D

Spoo · #3 January 29th, 2002, 04:33 AM

Gas giants don't come smaller than medium, so in a game where the starting planets are set to small, you still get a medium sized homeworld.

tesco samoa · #4 January 29th, 2002, 04:48 AM

methane should be your choice of air.

Gas are good to start with but as soon as you meet a rock race trade for it or capture the first colony ship you see.

I like the gas giants.

If you take gas make sure you take advanced storage. Huge planets will house 30 facilities. And that is a huge bonus. But you have to use this advantage early to make sure you have no resource problem and then get the 28 research planet going.

PsychoTechFreak · #5 January 29th, 2002, 10:17 AM

quote:
Originally posted by tesco samoa:
[QB]methane should be your choice of air.

Why ? Hydrogen is not bad also, and it is rarely taken by the other races, e.g. of TDM modpack. Has anybody examined the distribution of the different atmospheres ? Oxygen would be a bad choice I think, No Atmosphere is excluded.

Rollo · #6 January 29th, 2002, 12:08 PM

Yeah, I also like hydrogen with gas planets. Found quite a few breathables in the Last games I played.

PsychoTechFreak, check your Personal Messages.

Rollo

PsychoTechFreak · #7 January 29th, 2002, 01:22 PM

I have found the observation of gas giant distributions:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...&f=23&t=001768

The count of every atmosphere (except none) should be the same. But I like to take the one which is rarely taken by the others.

@Rollo: Check PM.

DirectorTsaarx · #8 January 29th, 2002, 11:48 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Gas giant planets are both rarer and larger than normal planets- no gas giant moons, for example. In short, it places a premium on your colonies- you'll have fewer to protect, but each one you loose will hurt more.

Other than that, no huge effects.

Phoenix-D

Gas Giants are even rarer if you use the "Ancient" quadrant type for the map.

TerranC · #9 January 30th, 2002, 12:32 AM

No offence to everybody here but...
Frankly, colonizing a Gas Giant is unreal.

I know it's a game but this has always ticked me off: races such as us can't colonize gas giants because it would get crushed by the immense pressure and its wind velocities would flail a colony around the planet so many times...

Energy beings (if there are ones) would be able to survive but carbon based lifeforms wouldnt be able to survive the elements of a gas giant.

Maybe build a station to mine it but the idea of colonization is farfetched.

Rollo · #10 January 30th, 2002, 02:24 AM

quote:
Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
...@Rollo: Check PM.

Thanks for the link. PM checked, and email sent.

Rollo