Posted by: nuclearslurpee
« on: December 14, 2023, 01:26:09 PM »Yeah, the default gravity tolerance range is quite, well, tolerant There is a theoretical discussion to be had whether the human race could survive living on the Moon permanently, for example, or whether it would lead to birth defects and serious growth problems - at the very least the Luna-born might never be able to come back to Earth. I often run campaigns where I scale it down - going from 0.9 G to 0.5 G already makes a huge difference.Yeah I think 0.5-1.5g is probably a more realistic range for humans...
In regards to the discussion as a whole, I think terraforming is just too fast by default. I reduced it to 0.25 on my recent game and that feels a lot better. Took me darn near 100 years to terraform a large earthlike planet.
I think of terraforming as an economic cost... the slower it is, the more you have to rely on building infrastructure to maintain colonies instead of being able to move from one to another by shifting older infrastructure from terraformed planets.
I usually like to expand rather fast and establish colonies in most systems as long as I have the transport capacity, so for my playstyle terraforming at the normal rate is in a sweet spot. I have been messing with conventional starts lately and I think in those cases terraforming can be slower, I've been using 50% racial research rates so probably the same for terraforming as well would be a sweet spot. 25% scares me though...