I think I know what my first mid-game goal will be...

[MarioFanaticXV]

Just started a new campaign, and after clearing a couple planets adjacent to my homeworld, my scouts managed to find this gem just a few hops away:



For those not willing to look at the full image, it has a Data Core, a Fabricator (Laser Gatling), an Advanced Research Station, AND an A-Prime Shield Generator, all on the same happy little planet. Granted, it's a Mk IV planet, but I figure that with all that, it's well worth the effort to get it (though I'll probably just scrap the Ion cannons instead of trying to capture them).

Anyone here have some stories about finding planets with lots of goodies close to home?

[Faulty Logic]

I don't see an Advanced Factory there. Ah, you mean an Advanced Research Station.

My juiciest planet ever had an ARS, a speed booster fab, a data center, a civilian leader, a hive golem, and a rebel colony.

[zoutzakje]

welcome to the forums
always good to have more people join our little community ^^
Not counting extremely small galaxies (where all goodies are just clumped onto the few planets the AI has), the best I got from the RNG on a single planet was a Botnet Golem, a Dyson Sphere, an ARS, 2 fabricators (forgot which ones) and I believe a data center too. This was before the Botnet became it's own Minor Faction, even before Minor Factions had their own intensity scaling. I couldn't believe my luck when I discovered this world only about 4-5 hops away from my homeworld.

On the other hand, I've also seen some terrible combinations of nasty AI structures on a single world... A Raid Engine with a Gravity Drill and an AI Eye (Sentry Eye). I had to avoid that world.

[Lancefighter]

Silly side note. A-prime generators are always on ARS worlds. Actually, theyre defined by ARS worlds. As in, every ARS world has an A-prime shield gen.

(similarly, each counterwave world has a c-secondary. And uhm.. some type of place has a B-secondary.. adv factory i think)

[zoutzakje]

Silly side note. A-prime generators are always on ARS worlds. Actually, theyre defined by ARS worlds. As in, every ARS world has an A-prime shield gen.

(similarly, each counterwave world has a c-secondary. And uhm.. some type of place has a B-secondary.. adv factory i think)

Not entirely true, at least from what I notice in my current game. ARS always have an A-CSG, Advanced Factory always has a B-CSG, but not all planets with counter guard posts have a C-CSG. It's true that I only see them on a world with a counter guard post, but not every world with a counter guard post has a C-CSG. And no, I'm not playing against the AI type that makes excessively use of counters

[Lancefighter]

hm, maybe its a c will always spawn on counterwave, but not every counterwave spawns a c. I thought it was every one.. DId you maybe already kill one? (all secondary ones are one killed per galaxy)

[Faulty Logic]

The C-network is for fabricators without an ARS or FactIV. The D-Network is for planets with a warp-counter post but not a fab, ARS or FactIV. E is for the rest.

[Lancefighter]

ah ok, had those mixed up then. I wasnt sure one was actually for fabricators or not.

[zoutzakje]

Now that makes sense, looking at my current game. C-CSG worlds do indeed all have a fabricator on them.

[MarioFanaticXV]

I don't see an Advanced Factory there. Ah, you mean an Advanced Research Station.

Yeah, sorry, my mistake. Edited to be correct.