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Originally posted by raynor:
Could you perhaps explain yourself a little better?
In the threads discussing colonization of planetary types, people were complaining that it was unrealistic to think that rock dwellers could ever colonize ice or gas, that gas dwellers could ever colonize rock or ice, or that ice dwellers could ever colonize rock or gas. But the argument was not empire-based, it was species-based. So if an empire of rock dwellers captures a gas planet full of gas dwellers from another empire, there is no logical reason why those gas dwellers can't be used to colonize other gas planets (provided the empire has the Gas Colonization tech).
My point is this:
An option implementing the species-based restriction was asked for but what is (apparently) being given instead is an empire-based restriction. Many people were hoping for the former. The latter is not as useful and is totally arbitrary -- there's no logical basis for it.
The same arguments can be made regarding the new option to restrict colonization to homeworld atmospheres.
If the idea was simply to reduce the number of colonies to manage, then you've already pointed out the obvious (and logically consistent) solution -- reduce the average number of planets per system. Or just play in an ancient galaxy.
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