Heya! Just started Aurora, have done a few games to try to get the 'early game' familiar to me. I usually stop around the time I've explored a few systems. However, I'm sort of having a bit of a 'feel' problem. I prefer my kooky space empires to be relatively tightly packed as opposed to being spread between 1 planet every 3 or 4 system away -- however, it seems I find systems that are uninhabitable due to a lack of any resources or unterraformable conditions. While the latter are fine with me, the dead 'waste' systems are pretty boring to me. Are there any sort of.. system generation parameters that I could change to make it more likely that a system will be generated with some resource-laden planets?
I assume I could probably go into SM mode and manually add planets with resources, but that'd be both cumbersome and rather boring since I'd know what resources were where, all the time. I don't need /every/ system to have resources -- but it seems like I find near-Earthlike planets a lot more than I find planets with a decent amount of resources! That gives a rather 'wrong' feeling to me, universe-wise.
Also, sorry to toss in an unrelated question, but -- I've never found any sort of alien ruins as of yet over multiple games, though I only explore 3-5 systems in each. Are they just rarer occurrences than I've been exploring for, or am I failing to either put the proper detection tools on ships, or possibly not recognizing when I've found alien ruins? I've been assuming it'd show up under 'Contacts' on the system map.