Colony
A colony is a new planet created by a Gaia Class Colony Ship. Each colony allows a player to establish a new set of mines, buildings, defenses, etc., just like they have on their homeworld. Colonies share crew points and research with their homeworld. A player may have up to 8 colonies in addition to their homeworld.
A new colony has a random number of fields assigned when it is colonized.
Planet Sizes
Planet sizes are first determined using a normal distribution, based on a mean and standard deviation (see table blow) which are both determined by what planet slot is being colonized. If the Gaussian random number generator returns a value outside of 1 standard deviation away from the mean in either direction (which occurs roughly 32% of the time) instead a uniformly distributed random number between 40 and 320 is used. No planet larger than 320 or smaller than 40 may exist.
Planet Slot | Mean Size | Standard Deviation |
1 | 64 | 16 |
2 | 58 | 15 |
3 | 73 | 14 |
4 | 173 | 65 |
5 | 167 | 72 |
6 | 155 | 73 |
7 | 144 | 29 |
8 | 140 | 27 |
9 | 159 | 30 |
10 | 101 | 22 |
11 | 98 | 18 |
12 | 105 | 22 |
13 | 110 | 50 |
14 | 84 | 42 |
15 | 101 | 48 |
NOTE: The Gaia Class Colony Ship is automatically destroyed in the process of creating a Colony.