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abundant

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So,  I recently set up a game with the black holes setting on "abundant"  (game title was to be "Battle for the Sea of Holes"- get that refence) & I've so far explored 1/2 the map and not come across a single singularity.  Someone else posted a thread that they had tried creating games with "abundant" planets and were getting odd results.  Can anyone confirm this setting is working as intended?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You can test this by starting a new game and activating the console with the tilde/grave key(~) and write "fow" to remove fog of war.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks, did not know how to do that.  And it turns out "abundant" on a huge size galaxy means... five.  Now its likely my settings as I look at that map, as I had 12 major civ's plus "uncommon" minor races for another 4, although in my mind "huge" was a setting that should've allowed for a whole lot of races.  Perhaps I made it too crowded for the black holes to populate.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Sounds like something is not working right, I've seen more than that without adjusting the settings.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting ChaosGuy, reply 2

Thanks, did not know how to do that.  And it turns out "abundant" on a huge size galaxy means... five.  Now its likely my settings as I look at that map, as I had 12 major civ's plus "uncommon" minor races for another 4, although in my mind "huge" was a setting that should've allowed for a whole lot of races.  Perhaps I made it too crowded for the black holes to populate.
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Base on 'huge' is 250; black hole probability on Abundant is 0.05 (5%). You'd expect something around 12-13, if it's a simple multiplier.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Hmmm then perhaps something isn't right with the abundant setting.  i see another thread out there with someone surprised how few stars spawned when he set it to "abundant" for that.

 

Still, 12 major and 4 minor races on a huge map (clusters) do make it seem busy  so much so that if I had gotten say 9 black holes instead of just 5 I probably wouldn't have thought it was lacking, but yes, 12-13 was what I would've expected as well.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

On a dev stream Paul said Brad nerfed it too much. Looking at the XML, that is very true. It was too much before, too few now. I believe Paul said he was upping it. Perhaps 1.03?