Is it worth colonizing low habitability planets

[Sammy]

or is it better just to wait to terraform them

[coolman552]

terraform

[stars2heaven]

Or wait to bring up their habitability through some other means. It's really not worth it if it's below 60%. I'm not sure it's worth it if it's below 70%, even.

[Spirit]

Originally posted by stars2heaven:

Or wait to bring up their habitability through some other means. It's really not worth it if it's below 60%. I'm not sure it's worth it if it's below 70%, even.

unless you are a machine or lithoid empire

[Heimdall313]

Terraform it, or if you have Droids you can colonize with that. Lithoids can also inhabit pretty much anything. Low habitability crushes your pop growth, and is a pretty heavy penalty on your amenities and consumer goods. It also reduces your resources generated by jobs. Net drain all around.

[coolman552]

Originally posted by stars2heaven:

Or wait to bring up their habitability through some other means. It's really not worth it if it's below 60%. I'm not sure it's worth it if it's below 70%, even.

colonize green
colonize yellow if desperate
never colonize red unless doomsday origin and there are no alternatives

[Ramonkey]

As a min-maxer I'd say colonize them

Low habitabillity planets aren't bad per say. They just need a different approach to make them useful (Robots, slaves, resettlement)

[Drunk Demoman]

Originally posted by Ramonkey:

As a min-maxer I'd say colonize them

Low habitabillity planets aren't bad per say. They just need a different approach to make them useful (Robots, slaves, resettlement)

Or just change the pops on that world to have that climate preference, that works too, and is cheaper.

[Nightmyre]

Generally - colonize if they're above 40%, otherwise wait for the early-game tech to terraform uninhabited planets.

Originally posted by Ramonkey:

As a min-maxer I'd say colonize them

Low habitabillity planets aren't bad per say. They just need a different approach to make them useful (Robots, slaves, resettlement)

Colonizing the low-habitability ones is less effective because you need to wait much longer to terraform them. The only exception is if you manually move the pops off the planet once you get the tech, thus abandoning the planet, and then terraform - but honestly, it's not worth the effort at that point.

[olstar18]

Also depends if you have migration treaties. If you have a low habitability world you may be able to attract immigrants the prefer that world type.

[Ramonkey]

Originally posted by A Black Square:

Originally posted by Ramonkey:

As a min-maxer I'd say colonize them

Low habitabillity planets aren't bad per say. They just need a different approach to make them useful (Robots, slaves, resettlement)

Or just change the pops on that world to have that climate preference, that works too, and is cheaper.

That's what I meant with slaves ;)