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Posted by: TheDeadlyShoe
« on: February 16, 2016, 07:44:29 PM »

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There is of course no real mechanical reason to do so.
There's one super niche reason.  A planet on the (cold) edge of habitability is more vulnerable to orbital bombardment dust wrecking its climate. Of course, that only matters if the planet suffers serious bombardment, so....

Posted by: Rich.h
« on: February 16, 2016, 01:43:13 PM »

For me it always depends on what I want to use the colony for, so for example in all my games I have a habit of making Mars the main research planet in my civilization. With this in mind when I terraform it I tend to only push the temperature up to around the minus 5 mark, this is just warm enough that folk could move about in the right clothing. but it also means those big science computers have a planetary cooling system built in. Other planets I might decide would be a perfect tourist type beach planet aka Star Trek Rigel and as such these will be left warmer than Earth.
Posted by: Haji
« on: February 16, 2016, 12:35:59 PM »

As I usually role-play my campaigns it really comes down to which nation is terraforming a planet, why they are doing so, what resources they have available and how many other tasks are waiting. However unless I role-play a really smegty nation or one which has too much to do with too few resources, I aim to make planets Earth-like. There is of course no real mechanical reason to do so.
Posted by: GodEmperor
« on: February 16, 2016, 11:28:47 AM »

Quote from: 83athom on January 27, 2016, 11:32:49 AM
I try to make them more livable (Earth-like atmosphere). Getting it to 0.2 Oxygen, Greenhouse/Anti-greenhouse gas to bring temp to around 14* C, and the rest is Nitrogen, all without going to far away from 1 pressure.

Dont forget - removal of every ounce of dangerous gas like ammonia, methane etc.
Posted by: Bryan Swartz
« on: January 27, 2016, 08:54:16 PM »

In my game 0.0 basically is livable, as I've narrowed the habitability 'band' if you will somewhat.  So I'll just be moving on, when it gets to that point. 
Posted by: 83athom
« on: January 27, 2016, 11:32:49 AM »

I try to make them more livable (Earth-like atmosphere). Getting it to 0.2 Oxygen, Greenhouse/Anti-greenhouse gas to bring temp to around 14* C, and the rest is Nitrogen, all without going to far away from 1 pressure.
Posted by: Mastik
« on: January 27, 2016, 11:28:00 AM »

I try to make it "liveable" after reaching 0.000.  Roughly 10-30C if i can.
Posted by: DAVIDARCNO
« on: January 27, 2016, 11:08:15 AM »

When terraforming a planet, I realize when the colony cost reaches 0. 00, the planet is habitable without infrastructure.   Does anybody keep on terraforming to make conditions more Earth-like, or do you just stop and go to the next planet?