Low number of habitable planets?

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First off, obviously I am a HUGE newb... I've yet to complete a game because I keep running into this wall that I see as a problem but you all may see as "the norm".

I've started multiple games with varying sizes of maps, and each time, it seems like I can only find 1 planet that is habitable or that I can do ANYTHING with.  So my question is this: Is there something I'm missing with all of these planets/systems that I apparently can't do a thing with?  I've spent a lot of time on the galciv2 wikia pages but nothing there seems to clear this question up for me.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

When you start a game, what is your 'Habitable Planets' setting set to?

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Is "High" an option?  I can't honestly remember what I set it to, but I'm sure it was the option that would lead me to believe it'd yield the highest number of habitable planets.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Are the other races having the same problem as you or do they have more than two planets? If they have more planets, you are probably too slow to colonise. I doubt that, so let's move on:

Set habitable planets to 'abundant', number of planets planets to 'abundant' and make sure you don't stuff a tiny map with all civilizations -> there will be no space left for uninhabited planets. If you want to play with all the races (both the main races and the minor races) and you want colonisable planets, I'd suggest selecting mapsize huge or higher. This should do the trick.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I won't recommend Abundant. Instead go for Common. Abundant may leave with too many planets to manage and conquer and you may not know enough about governors and rally points to do that without becoming mad at the game.

Also, you are probably being beaten by the AI in the colony rush (it knows where all the habitable planets are).

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

As the others have posted, the number of systems and the % that have planets that can be colonized are both affected by the settings selected in the game set-up screen, in the same screen where you choose the size of the galaxy.  The max is achieved when both of those settings are "abundant".

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

There's definitely a balance between the number of races and number of habitable planets.  You can go too extreme either way and make a game not fun.  Even a one step change in habitable planets or stars makes a noticable difference in how the game plays.  Same with the extreme planets setting in DA and TA.