That's intentional IIRC. You can unlock other terraforming tile improvements in the tech tree if you want to build more tiles on planets.

Yeah. It does work like that. There are many levels to terraforming, each can add another tile and allows for more kinds of tiles to be terraformed (what soil enhancement can't reach, another can). In fact, there is a level that can terraform *any* tile. Normally each can only be built once, but there is that one that can be used any number of times.

Actually, since you can use a more advanced terraforming to terraform soil enhancement tiles, and you get one that could terraform any number of soil enhancement tiles, I avoid terraforming until I'm able to research all of them. I don't want to accidentally waste an advanced terraform on a soil enchancement tile when I have something better for it. If I waste them, then I won't get as high of PQ planet that I could have got.

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Depending on the race you only can re-use the last tech for terraforming a couple times.   But that is the design of the game

you should be able to use it any number of times only limited by the quality of tile it should not have anything to do with what race your playing with

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Quoting Seilore,

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Depending on the race you only can re-use the last tech for terraforming a couple times.   But that is the design of the game

you should be able to use it any number of times only limited by the quality of tile it should not have anything to do with what race your playing with

Well, the Altarians don't get the final terraforming tech.  Given that their tech tree lacks any real redeeming features, this is a pretty significant reason not to play them right now.

Correct the Altarians only get two or three extra tiles with their final tech.

I think I prefer the GC2 terraforming system more.  Where it does it on it's own and for multiple tiles.

Whether or not GalCiv 2 did terraforming it on its own depended on if you had the planet colonized at the time you researched the tech. If colonized at the time the tech was researched, then the terraforming would be queued the same way might the next level of factories would be queued if you just researched the tech. If not, you would have to manually place them like you would have to place factories on a new world.

Overall, I like GalCiv 2 terraforming more. The current GalCiv 3 method requires more thinking and attention from me than I would like. Like I said earlier, I put off terraforming until later so I'm sure that I'm not wasting a terraforming improvement on a soil enhancement tile, since can potentially terraform all soil enhancement tiles later.

i prefer the gc3 method as well i would like to see it rebalanced a bit

for example have soil enhancement stay at one tile, no put in a second tech that does the same thing as soil enhancement but limited to 5 tiles

then terraforming plant for 1 tile, and a second tech that does the same as terraforming tech for 4 tiles etc etc

this i think would give us the willingness to use the terraforming early in the game without letting it become to overpowered in the early game

eithar that or color code all the tiles so we know which ones we are able to use which improvement on

this could be something that will come in later once the ai learns how to make the best use of terraforming tiles