Your Home World and Other Inhabited Planets

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Playing Stars!


You start the game on your home world, where you have a small but thriving population, basic industry in the form of factories and mines, fundamental technology, and a short range, planet-based scanner. In orbit, you have a starbase capable of building ships and providing a small amount of planetary defense. Each player's home world, whether it belongs to an <tooltip text="AI">An AI is a computer player. AIs always exist in single player games and can exist in multi-player games, if chosen.</tooltip> or a human, starts out with these same items. When you colonize another planet, you can build these and other items as your <tooltip text="resources">Resources are units of work created by people and factories. They represent the cost of performing a task or producing an item.</tooltip> and knowledge of technology allow.

All planets contain minerals at the start of the game. All home worlds start with the same surface mineral content -- adjusted to even out any advantages or disadvantages provided by racial attributes. If your home planet has a serious lack of a specific mineral on its surface then your opponents are initially faced with the same problem.

All the information about a planet you own and the controls you use to give orders to that planet are available in Command pane. The Selection Summary pane shows the gravity, temperature and radiation levels of a planet, as well as the rate at which your population will grow. Environmental conditions on your home world are optimal for your race.

Abandoning an Inhabited Planet

When you abandon a planet, the starbase and all defenses on that planet are destroyed.