Does anyone share star charts? I dont see the point you lose all chance of surveying the system in the future. Is this how it should be done. I always refuse so that i can survey - am i missing something?
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I only start to share once the galaxy is full up with empires. I'm never going to get my science ships through four different borders so I may as well get a star chart and find out what's going on over there. But I agree that in the first 2/3 of the game trading star charts is actually disadvantageous because you don't get to survey like you said.
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Well, star chart trading is useful in one way: You can offer your star charts and get some trading benifits from them, while effectively blocking the AI from surveying everything you already surveyed. I believe they even value star charts more if they have many systems unknown to them, so it's a particularly evil thing to do.
What about the events? Are they getting in the star system when the map being set up or there is a chance to find them randomly during the game? Is there a chance to find anything in an already surveyed system by the AI?
You can still uncover anomalies even if the AI already researched an anomaly there. If you trade for their star charts on the other hand you can't survey those planets anymore, so you can't get any anomalies from them.
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At the beginning I did. Seemed like a nice way to get know the galaxy. Then I discovered the survey thing.
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The mechanic of surveyed/unsurveyed planets needs to be completely reworked. Galactic ambitions tech+starcharts can completely ruin your chances of finding anomalies. Starchart/Galactic Ambitions system data needs to be completely detached from your ability to survey systems for anomalies.
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Thanks for the reply, I had similar thoughts. Then the whole survey process definitely needs to be changed.
You can still survey after galactic ambitions. It doesn't cause planets to be surveyed.
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I would do it if you got a big opinion buff, but you don't even get that so there is very little incentive apart from gimping future scientists, and losing some fun early game elements.
In cases where the system becomes completely surveyed due to Galactic Ambitions, you can no longer survey that system for anomalies.
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Does the Survey Data feature still make it impossible to finish precursor quests like in 1.0? Anyone knows?
I think so, yes. I still avoid that tech like the plague, so it might have been changed already, but I strongly doubt that
Feared as much. Ah well, no juicy border extensions
Though I assume it should be possible to mod the tech to remove that feature...
Though I assume it should be possible to mod the tech to remove that feature...