I've been thinking about Precursor Planets and post 1.0 I think I'll probably be ready to throw around some ideas of how to make them more interesting and better.

My complaint actually is not yours (ie you want them to be "better"), rather it's that they no longer feel as special to get - not because they aren't good, but rather with the core/colony dynamic having a planet anywhere is much more situational than it was in GC3.  But it's possible that the bonuses aren't as great as they could be either.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels underwhelmed by PP's, although I would like to gather some opinions of others on this because I just don't personally make many core worlds anyway (or at least have not in the games I've played thus far).

cheers,

-tid242

Yea, the balance issue with someone finding a planet with +10 base Production on it or something early game is a really difficult issue.  On the other hand, PPs could be a lot more special than they are.  I'd imagine a happy compromise is to require them to be "explored" or "figured out" or "turned on all of the way".

There are probably some cool ideas there, but it seems like it's not urgent to come up with them all during the 1.0 scramble.

Special, but not OP, something that you're happy to find now, but grows with you.  And something that someone else will want to take away from you.  It's an interesting problem to think about.

You have Precursor studies as one of the technologies to study.  Why not have some more Precursor techs down the line to study that unlock bonuses to PreC planets?  That would make them better and not able to be used early in the game for balancing purposes.