Major Events (Planet quality bonus'/new minor race)

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Just looking to see if this has been a change over the last several patches. Doesn't really affect my game just looking for clarification being I haven't noticed this in any change logs.

Has there been a change to the major events such as the precurser artifact that increases the planets quality with-in so many sectors of the location. I used to get this event somewhat often in my games and I haven't seen it lately at all. That and New Minor Races haven't been popping up either. Mind you I think I have seen one new race over the last 5 games of which I only completed two but, again just like the other major event I used to notice this event somewhat often.

Thank you for your response maybe its just my luck
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have not seen the planet quality increase event since moving from Galciv1 to DL. My guess is that it is an event that has been canned altogether.

The minor races appearing seems to take a holiday from appearing at all in many games. I have noticed that if they do appear once, they will be far more likely to appear again. It is almost as if there is a secret master switch which turns them off for some games and on for others?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The planet quality bonus event is in the game I just haven't seen it for the last several games wondering if it was changed in a patch?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi!
I have not seen the planet quality increase event since moving from Galciv1 to DL.
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I had it in my last game. IIRC it resulted in a nice class-28 planet for Altarians. When I conquered it, it became class-30 or 31. Game ended before I was able to fill all free tiles there.

BR, Iztok
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had it in my last game. IIRC it resulted in a nice class-28 planet for Altarians. When I conquered it, it became class-30 or 31. Game ended before I was able to fill all free tiles there.

BR, Iztok
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I have a long list of about 30 or 40 DL games, representing a monumental amount of game play time, none of which had the planet quality bonus event. None except the colonisation random events.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've seen it several times, in DL and (I think) every version of DA I've played. Never gotten it on one of my planets (of course), but it shows up every 15-20 games for someone else.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Does this event affect PQ0 uninhabitable planets? If so, that would be very cool.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There are actually two events - one makes a PQ 0 world habitable, the other doubles the PQ of an already-habitable planet. I haven't seen the PQ 0 one much recently, but I haven't been playing as much as I used to, either. I expect that to change when TA comes out   
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There are actually two events - one makes a PQ 0 world habitable, the other doubles the PQ of an already-habitable planet. I haven't seen the PQ 0 one much recently, but I haven't been playing as much as I used to, either. I expect that to change when TA comes out
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this is the event I was talking about The one where it makes a PQ0 planet/planets with in so many sectors of a given planet where the precurser artifact was recovered would make lets say everything within 2 sectors at least a pq8 or something like that. Just like you said I haven't seen this one in a long while. This is what I was wondering if they've done away with or made less frequent. I used to see this appear in every other or every third game I haven't seen it in several games over the last several months, in fact I've only seen one PQ related mega event in that time period and that was on the Krynn homeworld.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There are actually two events - one makes a PQ 0 world habitable, the other doubles the PQ of an already-habitable planet. I haven't seen the PQ 0 one much recently, but I haven't been playing as much as I used to, either. I expect that to change when TA comes out

this is the event I was talking about The one where it makes a PQ0 planet/planets with in so many sectors of a given planet where the precurser artifact was recovered would make lets say everything within 2 sectors at least a pq8 or something like that. Just like you said I haven't seen this one in a long while. This is what I was wondering if they've done away with or made less frequent. I used to see this appear in every other or every third game I haven't seen it in several games over the last several months, in fact I've only seen one PQ related mega event in that time period and that was on the Krynn homeworld.
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I haven't seen the area-effect event in a very long time. The events I'm describing are for one planet only. Perhaps the area-effect event was removed, but the other two are still present.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi!
The one where it makes a PQ0 planet/planets with in so many sectors of a given planet where the precurser artifact was recovered would make lets say everything within 2 sectors at least a pq8 or something like that.
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I had that event in my beforelast game (DL version), but it was limited to just one system of Arceans, and has improved three class-0 planets to class 4 without terraforming tiles. Not much use for my all-factores approach. I also couldn't gather enough influence from them to flip the arceans' planet in system, because they all had planetary influence 0. I dumped there 6B pop and filled the remaining 3 tiles with markets.

IIRC I've seen that event in only one more game, loooong ago.

BR, Iztok
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In a recent game the Drengi 2nd planet doubled in quality, then about a dozen turns later actually doubled again!

It was a 42 quality planet, the biggest I've ever seen in the game.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I saw the area of effect one not too long ago, but before 1.8. I have seen te doubling a few times in 1.8 already. One thing that I have noticed (And maybe its just me) but I have a hell of a lot of minor races popping up. I'm averaging an extra 2-3 a game atm.
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I saw the area of effect one not too long ago, but before 1.8. I have seen te doubling a few times in 1.8 already. One thing that I have noticed (And maybe its just me) but I have a hell of a lot of minor races popping up. I'm averaging an extra 2-3 a game atm
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hmmm.... How many minor races do you start with? I start with 8 always I wonder if this limits the new minor race poping up. I know that in the past I've had 9 or even 10 at once and I know that there were other posts on that. Maybe they just changed something when you start with 8 minor races verses a lesser number.
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i just had the area effect one in my last DA game it effected the terrans home system cool to see all the systems planets developed. but i digress the event is still happening in DA