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