No random Desert planets?

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I've played 30-40 games with Random 5 and 6 player systems and have never found a desert planet that was randomly generated.  I've seen random Terran and random Ferrous (TEC and Vasari homeworlds) but never Desert.  Is this a bug, or do I get incredibly unlucky?  Sure, new planet types are nice, but just once, I'd like to play a game as Advent and be able to colonize a DIFFERENT Desert planet.

 

-Gill

desert planet random sins of a solar empire ii
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Reply #1 from Sins2 Forums Top

havent seen any generated apart from forced homeworld spawn.

Reply #2 from Sins2 Forums Top

In the Solar Forge the random 5 and 6 player maps (single star) each include 4 random_rich_planet fillings which should make it possible to spawn a desert planet according to the galaxy_generator.uniforms file:

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        "name": "random_rich_planet",   

        "filling":

            {

                "items": [

                {

                    "name": "terran_planet",

                    "probability": 3

                },

                {

                    "name": "city_planet",

                    "probability": 1

                },

                {

                    "name": "desert_planet",

                    "probability": 3

                },

                {

                    "name": "magnetic_planet",

                    "probability": 4

                },

                {

                    "name": "oceanic_planet",

                    "probability": 5

                },

                {

                    "name": "crystalline_planet",

                    "probability": 5

                },

                {

                    "name": "ferrous_planet",

                    "probability": 5

                },

                {

                    "name": "swamp_planet",

                    "probability": 5

                },

                {

                    "name": "gas_giant_planet",

                    "probability": 2

                }]

            }

 

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They are fairly low probability but I would think after 30-40 games you would have seen at least one.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hm...apparently, I've just been incredibly unlucky, then.  Though assuming I'm reading that file right, a City Planet has the lowest probability of spawning, yet the last two games I've played with a friend both had a City Planet in them.  Both were 5 player Random and neither had a Desert or Terran planet.

-Gill

Reply #4 from Sins2 Forums Top

FYI, as of the last update (Dec 2025), I have consistently played on maps with a random Desert planet.  Much more enjoyable.  Thanks!

 

-Gill