Ashdar Prime fertility

[nweismuller]

Ashdar Prime fertility is currently High, despite its status as a Hive world. Is this intended? If it's considered too crippling to start the Ashdar Imperials with a low fertility world, my inclination would be more to start them with yet another starting farm rather than artificially increasing their homeworld fertility.

[sven]

Ashdar Prime fertility is currently High, despite its status as a Hive world. Is this intended? If it's considered too crippling to start the Ashdar Imperials with a low fertility world, my inclination would be more to start them with yet another starting farm rather than artificially increasing their homeworld fertility.

All of the Arid world types with a thick atmosphere / visible greening are now marked as 'High Fertility', so we bumped up all the Hives (which also have thick breathable atmospheres and liquid water) to be 'High Fertility' as well.

[nweismuller]

OK, that makes sense. Sorry for the confusion- I didn't notice that other Hives were also high fertility.

[Chasm]

Isn't the one thing you need to terraform a hive world a thin atmosphere though ? According to the terraforming tooltip for the technology?

[sven]

Isn't the one thing you need to terraform a hive world a thin atmosphere though ? According to the terraforming tooltip for the technology?

All hive worlds have 'Thick' atmospheres, so I think we can assume that the process of Hive-forming a thin atmosphere world involves some kind of atmosphere modification. (I agree, the in game lore is now a bit confusing though.)