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[Paul]

Success! I managed to kill off 73% of the people on landing.

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Kilometres-high spires of ice reach from Snowball's ice sheet into a black, star-studded sky. The colonists live in towering high-tech cities under airtight domes, on top of the planet-wide ice sheet. The streets are filled with security cameras and patrolled by armed police who violently put down any hint of dissent. In the first city stand monuments to the 729 colonists who died building the first settlement and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   0
Planet gravity:   0
Planet temperature:   0
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   271
Final technology level (Post-Singularity):   3000
Final culture (Dystopian Police State):   500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1270
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:

[Ghazkull]

hah, also got a dystopian police state only with an alien slave caste. Which i enslaved despite being technologically inferior...

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 Planet El Dorado
Atmosphere:   Breathable
Gravity:   High
Temperature:   Hot
Water:   Oceans
Resources:   Rich
Features:
   Outstanding ugliness
Plant life
Animal life
Industrial civilisation

El Dorado's squat, thick-limbed alien plants stretch away beneath a blue sky. The colonists live in squat cities of steel and concrete with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, beside rivers that flow into the planet's oceans. The streets are filled with security cameras and patrolled by armed police who violently put down any hint of dissent. Much of the labour in human communities is performed by a downtrodden alien slave caste that is all that remains of the planet's native civilisation. In the first city stand monuments to the 144 colonists who did not survive the journey, the 25 more who died building the first settlement, and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   500
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   856
Survivors after settlement construction:   831
Final technology level (Atomic Age):   1750
Native relations (Natives Enslaved):   -1000
Final culture (Dystopian Police State):   500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   830
Surviving cultural database × 10:   490
Total:   6257

[Paul]

And a game where everybody lived. Instant loss of 40% tech on landing due to "Poor" resources, but otherwise everything worked out.

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Planet Garden
Atmosphere:   Marginal
Gravity:   Low
Temperature:   Moderate
Water:   Oceans
Resources:   Poor
 
Features:
Airtight caves
Edible plants
Useful animals
Paleolithic civilisation
Monumental ruins

Garden's tall alien plants reach hundreds of metres into a pale blue sky. The colonists live in tall stone-walled cities with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, beside rivers that flow into the planet's oceans. They live lives of peace and spiritual fulfilment beyond the dreams of their ancestors on Earth, guided by a combination of human and alien philosophy. Many of the planet's native inhabitants live in the human communities, and the colonists' culture has been enriched by alien influences. In the first city stands a monument to the the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   250
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   500
Planet water:   500
Planet resources:   250
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   1000
Final technology level (Medieval):   1250
Native relations (Integrated Societies):   2000
Final culture (Cosmic Enlightenment):   3000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   600
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1650
Total:   12250

[sambojin]

This is on Android too. I quite like the feel of it (what was that American colonist game, travelling to the west in your wagon?). Very similar vibe, but really quick to play. Also incredibly random.

My best is an Atomic Age Cosmic Enlightenment, at 12444 pts, where I really lucked out on the bonus extras (similar tech aliens, moon, beautiful, etc, almost all green/yellow everything). Found it quite early too, so had most of my cols and databases, etc.

My next highest are Information Age Post-scarcity Utopias, at 10220 and 10154 pts each.

I tend to go for resource scanners first, then either water or gravity next. The resources have a huge impact on your final society type, so are worth lots of points if you luck out on other stuff.

Text dump of my best one:

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 Planet El Dorado
Atmosphere:   Marginal
Gravity:   Moderate
Temperature:   Very hot
Water:   Oceans
Resources:   Rich
Features:
Barren moon
Outstanding beauty
Plant life
Animal life
Atomic Age civilisation

El Dorado's alien forests stretch away beneath a pale blue sky. The colonists live in cities of steel and concrete under airtight domes, beside rivers that flow into the planet's oceans. They live lives of peace and spiritual fulfilment beyond the dreams of their ancestors on Earth, guided by a combination of human and alien philosophy. Many of the planet's native inhabitants live in the human communities, and the colonists' culture has been enriched by alien influences. In the first city stand monuments to the 216 colonists who died building the first settlement and the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   250
Planet gravity:   500
Planet temperature:   0
Planet water:   500
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   784
Final technology level (Atomic Age):   1750
Native relations (Integrated Societies):   2000
Final culture (Cosmic Enlightenment):   3000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   880
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1280
Total:   12444
 

Turns out you can get your scientific databases pumped up by an alien probe event (mine was at 108% in a recent game),  and that there's even post-singularity aliens (who strangely integrated well due to having similar levels of technology? It was a crappy planet though).

[NJW2000]

I finally got 12600 on one by choosing a world with atomic age aliens and cultural/scientific artifacts, just to see what the result was like. There was a bunch of yellows and one red in the environment, but apparently that doesn't matter if you have high construction... only just figured that out. Anyway, no colonists died, and we developed a... Post-Singularity Cosmic Enlightenment civilisation.

Marginal atmos, Low gravity, Hot, Trace amounts of water, but rich resources. Useful animals and high tech ruins... human and alien tech and philosophy. We sometimes have traders and diplomats from the atomic-age natives. I see us as distant guides, providing social and political leadership, as well as rationing out incredibly powerful technology. Although I suppose the natives must find our ultra-sealed super-tall synth-tech arcologies a little unnerving, especially given our perverse enjoyment of water.

Moral: enough natural mineral resources, and everyone's happy!
Ehm... given a sufficiently high level of mutual development as well as goodwill on the part of the more technologically advanced nations, that is.

[Egan_BW]

Huh. I feel like I've had lots of deaths to stuff like unbreathable atmosphere when I had full construction, but maybe I'm mistaken.

[Xantalos]

Hmm!

[Akura]

I tried to keep going to see how far the ship could go, since one of the planet descriptions that can be generated is "the seedship has made its way to the edge of the galaxy". However, it seems that's just flavor text.

Spoiler: A few things I learned from the run, though (click to show/hide)

After so many turns, the construction and landing systems start to decay, and you have to choose one or the other to protect(the other takes damage that turn). Then your probes start malfunctioning. I didn't quite see what happens next, since I decided to found a colony. I did notice that over time, you start seeing better planet ratings, but that just might be your scanners upgrading.

[Egan_BW]

Yeah, I did one run just going on until all the colonists died, to see what would happen. It's pretty disappointing.

[Whisperling]

Got a really nice run, mostly via pure luck. Found a really nice world early on, successfully searched a meteorite, and what hits I took were directed to the surface probes.

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Planet Garden
Atmosphere:   Marginal
Gravity:   High
Temperature:   Moderate
Water:   Planet-wide ocean
Resources:   Rich
 
Features:
Plant life
Animal life
Medieval civilisation
Monumental ruins

Garden's calm ocean that stretches to the horizon a pale blue sky. The colonists live in squat high-tech cities with buildings sealed against the planet's harsh environment, on platforms floating on the planet-wide ocean. They live lives of peace and spiritual fulfilment beyond the dreams of their ancestors on Earth, guided by a combination of human and alien philosophy. Many of the planet's native inhabitants live in the human communities, and the colonists' culture has been enriched by alien influences. In the first city stands a monument to the the seedship AI that guided humanity to its new home.

Score
Planet atmosphere:   250
Planet gravity:   250
Planet temperature:   500
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   1000
Final technology level (Post-Singularity):   3000
Native relations (Integrated Societies):   2000
Final culture (Cosmic Enlightenment):   3000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   1120
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1520
Total:   14390

[LoSboccacc]

> Native relations (Integrated Societies):   2000


anyone got to see what's the optimum of that? there should be one at 3000pt, as the others

[Sirian]

Meh there's no real gameplay, it's just a roll of the dice and reading what was written for the planet you chose.

Also, as someone interested in astronomy, it annoys me to read about asteroids damaging systems on my ship, when I know that the odds are way too low.

[KittyTac]

(what was that American colonist game, travelling to the west in your wagon?)

The Oregon Trail.

[FakerFangirl]

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Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   500
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   0
Planet resources:   250
Survivors after landing:   1000
Survivors after settlement construction:   855
Final technology level (Neolithic):   600
Final culture (Oppressive Theocracy):   1000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   300
Surviving cultural database × 10:   480
Total:   5735

What a fun game!

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Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   500
Planet temperature:   250
Planet water:   250
Planet resources:   0
Survivors after landing:   963
Survivors after settlement construction:   951
Final technology level (Iron Age):   1000
Native relations (Friendly):   1000
Final culture (Cosmic Enlightenment):   3000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   660
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1130
Total:   10204

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Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   500
Planet temperature:   500
Planet water:   500
Planet resources:   0
Survivors after landing:   977
Survivors after settlement construction:   977
Final technology level (Neolithic):   600
Final culture (Egalitarian Republic):   2000
Surviving scientific database × 10:   260
Surviving cultural database × 10:   980
Total:   7794

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Score
Planet atmosphere:   500
Planet gravity:   500
Planet temperature:   0
Planet water:   500
Planet resources:   500
Survivors after landing:   893
Survivors after settlement construction:   469
Final technology level (Information Age):   2000
Final culture (Corrupt Democracy):   1500
Surviving scientific database × 10:   930
Surviving cultural database × 10:   1000
Total:   8792

[Sirus]

My first run was a technical success: humanity survived, but more than 300 died during the journey or while building the colony, and the damage to the cultural databases led to the formation of an oppressive, iron-fisted police state.

My second run went much better: all colonists survived, on a nice world with plenty of water and edible vegetation, where the major flaw was that people have to wear breathing masks when they leave their underground cities. On the bright side, all databases survived intact as did the construction equipment, and so humanity lives on in a post-scarcity utopia.