Terraforming candidate galore?

[Roddo]

Is this a bug or just simple coincidence? It's too pronunciated to be a coincidence IMO.

In my last two playthoughs I've come across a plethora of these, and mind you, this would not be a problem for me after all it's something I'd expect and like to find. But the way it happens makes me feel this is more like a scripted thing.. or an error of some kind.

I'm 100 years in, bloated empire with many systems but just one or two planets and then SHAZAM! You find the first terraforming candidate. After that they just keep poping up. And it's funny because they all appear on the same region of the galaxy, that cluster that no one can enter because of random placement of blockers.

I'm thinking this either is a scripted behaviour. Spamming would-be planets for the hungered player.. or maybe this is just the go-to annomaly, the one you end up getting after all others where spent?

That's 25 of those, not counting Mars.

So.. I'm the only one?

 

[fadi_efendi]

I've seen the same thing, and so have others. The assumption is that since this particular anomaly is repeatable, it ends up the only anomaly you are still able to encounter in the mid-game. It is kind of immersion breaking to find three terraforming candidates in a single system, especially since I always play at 0.25 habitable planets, but there you have it.

 

[Armed Avacado]

But there must be more repeatable anomalies than this one, right?

 

[fadi_efendi]

Life signs and a couple of others. They don't fire on barren planets though.

 

[Mastikator]

If the player is left to survey the galaxy soon only terraforming candidates will be the only anomaly and every system will contain one, on the other side of the galaxy that the player is playing on.
It's a very silly system and they really need to change the system of survey = create galaxy

 

[AlanC9]

I imagine the system was balanced around galaxies which were crowded enough for this not to be an issue.

 

[Roddo]

Well I love the exploration part so this is a real bummer for me.
Further conflicting feelings I have with the exploration part after distant stars... since the removal of risk from annomalies I've realized the risk part was what motivated me the most, now it seems just.. bland clicking and time management.

Oh well.