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Old June 7th, 2009, 12:52 PM
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Default Re: Balance Mod Available for SE:V

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Originally Posted by Suicide Junkie View Post
While there are no none-atmosphere gas giants, all the gas giants are medium or larger.
This is not true in SE5 - check the attached graphic.
Numbers are from an actual game, and show some interesting things:

- atmosphere distribution for rock/ice is nearly exactly 20% each, but 25% for gas giants
- planet types appear with 33% probability each
- size distribution is either highly random, or totally ****** ** for some type/atmosphere combinations
- there's nothing to be seen of some special balancing for gas giant to counter the effect of the missing "no atmosphere" type
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