If you really want to know:
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It has a Culture Bonus of 100%

So, if you use that, along with either certain research topics, or just by itself, it can be very powerful.

Uzii I really enjoy your mods you're like a "god" at modding for SOASE. So I would like to thank you for awesome mods, and thank those that helped you achieve to where you're at now.

And here I thought there was some god named Davedon who threw odd planets into a solar system. Seems I was sorely mistakened, it was a texturer...

What are the chances of future Sins releases ganking this Mod and using it as offical? Would you care if they took your work and made it offical Uzi? Any dev out there able to comment if that is something you would consider doing? It seems like to me this would improve the game greatly without really changing it to much, just adding extra planets.

Then on the flip side it isn't like the devs couldn't have added these planets if they really wanted to right? Maybe they decided to leave them out to make the game more like what they envisioned? Just interested because I think it would be neat of the devs took something from the community and made it part of the game then named Uzi in the credits

made this .obj of a torn world in zbrush dont know if would be usefull in your
projects so im asking..

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On the question of Paradise planets, I've actually had the joy of colonizing one recently. Unfortunately it's directly adjacent to a wormhole and thus a lot of hostiles, but in general the bonus is pretty nice. Just stack up as many propaganda towers as you can and try to hold onto it.

I would argue that it's a bit too light on the logistics slots to be really useful though, in spite of the high pop. It's hard as heck to hold onto because of the few tac slots, but that's part of the tradeoff and makes sense, I think.

Just coming back on the 'dead star' and the 'black hole' ideas...i made some thoughts about the basics.

Dead Star
This needs texture work to get a star without light or at least a barren-vulcanic like appearance with dimmed light. Use for this star is to create systems without colonizable planets or at least changable. Besides u could include a research plan for nuclear fusion to build a orbital to power the colony there. If it is possible to change look and stats of a planet by installing this special orbital one could think about textures of a variety of planets without having a sun with very uncharming stats. After researching and building the orbital it'll change back to normal stats or if the orbital is broken (think about sneak attacks)...back to where it started.
Thinking also about a ultimate weapon to kill normal stars (change them to dead star) and let all planets downgrade...using such a weapon should also directly lead toward decleration of war from all other races in the diplomatics.

Black Hole
Probably it could be made as a one-way wormhole leading ships toward a 'graveyard' position. Ships may just not be able to dissappear from there and will battle all incoming enemys. Probably the star shouldn't be connected to other stars if this is possible, just reachable by normal space lanes.
As for the textures it may be similar to the wormhole, just larger (if it is possible to texture beyond the given borders of normal stars or planets). The appearance from outer space may be like a high-density star...probably blue/white or just as a unexplored planet.

Dual Star
The dual star or bi-star systems aren't uncomon in true space if my information is right. Use of this could be a whole new line of planets with high stats as they do get power from 2 stars. I could not imagine how such a system should be done in the game engine as the stars are clearly defined with surrounding grave well aso. To just make a texture of 2 small stars holding the same space as a single star would surely just be cosmetics i guess. So i think this idea is the hardest to realize so far.

@ Uzii
No problem, it's reasonable and thx you thought about the ideas. Unfortunatly i'm not able to mod yet so i can't give it a try on my own. But i look forward to.
Anyhow SinsPlus is defenetly the mod i like the most as it brings color and depht to gameplay. So i'll defenetly follow the progress.

Hey uzii, dont know if some one brought this up yet, but have you thought of making a new star like um........ A BLACK HOLE, that would be really cool if we could replace the sun with a black hole............ lol, sorry but i got bored and stuck, my net is down at home so i only get to check for solutions when I am at work then I gotta wait tell i get home to try the solutions i found during the day, making the progress of my mod go real slow

edit: i should prolly read before huh?

Uzii, love your work! Keep it up!

you should add space ports as a planet =D, i giant space port floating in space, it should have no asteroids, but huge log and tac slots, and a med pop. also all planets auto colonize the same way, weird little thing flying around the surface from node to node.

also you should make gas dwarfes, smaller gas planets, like saturn and neptune. i dont liek there only being a bleeeping jupiter.

also anyway to make a star colonizable? it'd be the best place to make a blockade.

another thing can you make a new type of star, acualy two, a white dwarfe, and a black dwarfe. with difrent abilities then the norm ones, for their less bright and give off less radiation (none for the black one, which is a giant block of carbon).
maby something like a huge gravity well, (very very dence) or slower start of long range jumps ofr its low lvl of light.

arg! two more planet X.X

a planet thats been over ran by machines >.>

and a metal planet, completely made of metal

hm nvm 3 a collapsing planet, a planet thats been practicly hollowed out of resources, and so might collapse, unless fixed. it would be able to hold a huge pop, but be hurting everywhere else.