Questions about aquatic biospheres

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I haven't had enough game time with this tech-branch in play, but I'm wondering about why it seems that the lower-level tile improvements either disappear or are never present later in a game or when I conquer a world held by a non-amphibious species.

It seems to me that after a game enters the last tech era, I should see all three additional tile reclamation options on any world I colonize, and maybe any world that I conquer/flip from another species without the aquatic biospheres option.

What am I misunderstanding or failing to observe?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It is not very easy to observe. The tooltips could be clearer here.

The first two aquatic terraformings are faction uniques, i.e. you can build them once in your entire empire. The last one is planetary unique, so it can be build on every planet.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks, zuPloed. At least there are more tooltips these days. (I'm still hoping for the day when the SD games unit hires staff whose only job is creating and polishing text in games, including a manual written by someone who can regularly get questions answered by the devs!)

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Philocthetes, reply 2

staff whose only job is creating and polishing text in games
Wow, I would pity those guys. Not because there is much do, but because this would a terribly monotonous job.

But given the kinds of threads I see on the forum, they certainly should put a little more work into the clarity of the information given.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I've done documentation work in a software shop. It can be very challenging because there are so many demands on dev time, and often marketing people want to be involved, which tends to lead to conflicts between clarity and detail vs. 'fun' and branding. Doing a thorough professional documentation job could be extra-challenging for a shop like Stardock because they are really serious about community-oriented ongoing development: a high-order form of the moving target problem.

If Brad can indeed get a healthy crew to stay involved with the new game wikis hosted on Stardock domains, maybe we can get the devs to play there some also :X