So we pick a race, but why not a planet type/class as well? People like customization and this could add an additional, but minor dimension that is fun. Each planet type/class would add some sort of stat loosely related to the description (we can have fun with it of course).
Possible Examples
- Gas Giant - 5% chance incoming scans do not get through (duh, there's gas everywhere!)
- Frozen Wasteland - 2% covert ops success bonus (those cold mofos work much harder when offworld)
- Terrestrial - 1% ship production & 1% construction speed (lots of nice land to build on and use)
- Inferno - 2% ship cost reduction (not much work to melt those metals on this super hot planet and build ships from it)
- Barren - Max structure limit increased by +50 (so much space to use here!)
- Unclassified - Two randomized stats (one positive,one negative, 0-5%) to a random set of stats TBD - examples +4% ship cost, -3% ship prod speed - (this planet is wild and unknown, thus the gamble on what you're getting could be good, neutral, or bad - but not overly bad as these are minor changes)