This is actually not true. You cannot change your gaia species preference if they are a life seeded race.
why do a Gaia world ever?
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This is actually not true. You cannot change your gaia species preference if they are a life seeded race.
At least for me I was able to change the habitability preferences of a Life-Seeded Race I conquered in the latest patch.
Is this still true for 2.2? It changed a lot of modifiers and multipliers, haven't checked it myself but I think all the multipliers are additive now.
The bonus is still multiplicative in 2.2.
I could check in my last game on The Veil and a generic gaia.
This simply isn't true. You can most definitely change your Gaia World Preference. Hell, I did just that in my Stellar Performance achievement game from Gaia or Ocean because I saw a Sea of Consciousness. You can't change INTO Gaia or Tomb World, but you can change TO the Default 9.
Another thing you can do with Gaia Worlds is Consecrate them if you are a Spiritualist, which gives pretty solid bonuses to Anemities, Unity, and Ethics attraction across your entire Empire. Gaia Worlds give more bonuses than other types of planets.
If you are just into a consecration, you can probably find enough gaia worlds from galaxy generation. A convenient fallen empire will provide you more than you need or can use, and you have other reasons not to colonise those early.
It was not possible before 2.0 for sure, but now it is possible. I think it's a bug. I did it a few days ago and it worked.
Hell, I'm not even sure that it should not be possible cause you can achive this level of genemodding only in late midgame or later.
Please, if a spiritualist FE has a consecrated Gaia world nearby, they will NOT object to you claiming the system and consecrating the planet as well. Settling it will probably still enrage them, but I had no issues with co-consecration.
I generally like to use Gaia Worlds as Farm Worlds. Mostly for RP reasons, but if you're a slave holder, Gaia Worlds are ideal to bring slave work force from every corner of the galaxy 
Why have inproductive filthy xenos on your capital and another worlds, when you can have them mildy happy and productive working on one place?
Why have inproductive filthy xenos on your capital and another worlds, when you can have them mildy happy and productive working on one place?
If you play 200 or 400 like I usually do, that's not actually guaranteed. Furthermore, the Holy Worlds can actually end up spawning on the opposite end of the Fallen Empire or on their closed borders.
That being said, this is easily the best way to make friends with them.
Huh. Interesting.
Wish there were easier ways to tell which bonuses are additive and multiplicative in gameplay, it'd help a lot in decision-making and theory crafting...
It used to be the case that you couldn't remove gaia world preference by gene modding. Just checked the current 2.2.3 beta, and you can.