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== How many? ==
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How many fields will it add?
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==Cost==
I believe it is 5 every time.
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Other pages (Fields, Building, etc) indicate that the cost for terraforming depends on the number of fields already on the planet, so that terraforming a small planet would be fairly inexpensive, but terraforming a larger planet would be more expensive.  Someone should verify which information is correct.
  
Can you increase the temperature of the planet?
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==Lottery==
I don't think so.
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I won a terraform in the Lottery, but cannot seem to use it.  I know that planets with more than 320 fields cannot be colonized, but is there an upper limit to how many fields you can add to a planet by terraforming?
 
 
I tried terraforming to see what it would do and for 32k in credits approximate on a planet of size 127 or so it would raise the fields by 5 pts. and nothing else was affected from initial plans. It waited for approval which I did not go ahead with.
 
 
 
== Seems like robbery to me ==
 
 
 
A planet with 170ish fields might be a good candidate, but 50k+ in credits for five additional fields is crazy overpriced.  I wouldn't worry about it unbalancing the game too much; people with credits will still find it more economical to re-colonize.  I suspect this is an endgame ability to be used when, say, your home planet needs just a few more fields to squeeze in the foundry or something.
 
 
 
 
 
Blue Frog made this comment about it:
 
 
 
:''"I think you and everyone else complaining about the large cost of upgrading an already huge planet are missing the point. You'll never fill a 306 field planet, or even a 206, so why would you terraform it? If we based the price such that it were affordable for a 300 field planet, which nobody would ever terraform, it would be way too cheap for a 150 field planet which will be terraformed frequently.''
 
 
 
:''We're just now getting to the point where people are filling their home worlds (163 fields) after the game has been live for exactly 4 months. And since buildings cost exponentially more with each level, you'd have to play for probably at least a year just to fill a 185 slot (assuming you're not intentionally doing stuff to overbuild like Factory lvl 10).''
 
 
 
:''The price for upgrading your home world is about 53k credits. That's been fairly common already."''
 
 
 
== Max ==
 
 
 
Can this increase a planet's size beyond 320? I heard that was the max base size.
 
:Why would you want to? See the above comments by BFG. --[[User:Rob|Rob]] 20:58, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 
Because I'm rich and bored. The question is not why should I do it, but whether it can be done. The information is to keep the wiki thorough.
 
:I think that would be a question to ask on the message boards. --[[User:Rob|Rob]] 15:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:Someone give me your credit card info and I'll terraform my 311 planet 2 times...
 

Latest revision as of 08:17, 27 January 2016

Removed Vandalism Trash

Cost

Other pages (Fields, Building, etc) indicate that the cost for terraforming depends on the number of fields already on the planet, so that terraforming a small planet would be fairly inexpensive, but terraforming a larger planet would be more expensive. Someone should verify which information is correct.

Lottery

I won a terraform in the Lottery, but cannot seem to use it. I know that planets with more than 320 fields cannot be colonized, but is there an upper limit to how many fields you can add to a planet by terraforming?