How to see Planet Types ?

Hi,

i just bought GalCiv II Ultimate.

How do i see the Type of a Planet (Waterworld, Toxic, Radioactive.....) BEFORE i research the Techs to Colonize them ?

Before researching colonizing Techs i only see the Planets as Class 0 on the Map. After researching i can see the Icons

on the Planets revealing their Type (Waterworld, Toxic, Radioactive.....)

But it would be of great Help knowing the Types of Planets before starting research.

I.E. if i have a lot of Waterworlds in my Territory it makes more sense researching "Waterworld".

But i can't find out how to see a Planets Type.

Maybe someone can help.

cheers

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In Dark Avatar, I can see the icon before I get any tech. IIRC, I can get the planet info more than one way. I am not at my game pc right now, but IIRC, I can even see it on the main galaxy screen. Maybe right click on the planet? I do it so unconsciously after so many games that I cannot recall for sure!

I have not played ToA, so maybe it is different.

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The icons definitely do appear on the map before you research the tech, and on the planet info popup. This sounds like something of a glitch. I would look in the game folder (it's in C:/ProgramFiles/Stardock Games) for pictures in GFX/Overlays with names like Gravity_Red, Aquatic_Red, Barren_Red, and so on. If these don't exist, have funny names, or are blank, that would cause this sort of problem (if they didn't crash the game outright).

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First of all,

thanks for answering.

I guess i simply assumed that every Planet can be colonized by researching the proper tech.

Obviously i played way too much MOO2. Sorry my fault !

So, only planets with icons can be colonized.

cheers

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