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Class 10, so I have 8 empty squares (one for Soil Enrichment, one for Colony):
- 700% Research
- 700% Research
- 100% Research
- 100% Research
- 300% Manufacturing
- 100% Manufacturing
- 100% Morale
- 100% Influence
I have never seen that before!
Game DA, all settings random.
This game got even odder, but I have a theory now.
First, the other planet in my own system had 14 open tiles, and 9 of them were bonus tiles:
- 700% Manufacturing
- 300% Manufacturing
- 100% Manufacturing
- 100% Research
- 100% Morale
- 100% Influence
- Three 100% Farming
My theory is that the number of bonus tiles is affected by the galaxy size and the number of planets and the bonus tiles are distributed among the habitable planets. The game settings were all Random and the galaxy appears to be the largest one and there are LOTS of stars and all seem to have planets.
BUT!
I have not found any habitable planets outside my own system and I have checked at least 20 systems so far.
So, I think the bonus tiles are crammed into whatever habitable planets there are, and there may be NONE outside homeworld systems. If there is only one major AI and no minor AIs, then there may be only FOUR planets for all the bonus tiles that are supposed to be spread out in a gigantic galaxy!
Well, I tried to reproduce the mega-bonus-tile effect and had almost no success so far.
Specifically, I selected largest map, max stars, max planets, min AIs, no minor AIs, and minimum habitable planets. The frequency of bonus tiles may be a little over normal, but nothing like I've got in that odd game I posted about.
I plan to continue experiments to try to figure it out.
I played on in the All Bonus Tile galaxy. The only other AIs were the Torians and the Yor, with one minor AI.
All the tiles in all the homeworlds were bonus tiles. The second planet in each home system also appeared to be mostly bonus tiles, as well.
There were no other habitable planets in the gigantic-size galaxy.
I sure wish I had a theory as to why it happened. I have been unable to repeat it.
I have no idea what's going on and I can only speculate:
Maybe you've accidentally triggered some scenario-game. I don't know how and don't know which scenario would apply.
Something inside the code conbined really weird and screwed up, giving you a very unique galaxy for a unique experience...
But to be honest, I'm just pulling these explanations out of my... hat, so...Looks like a fun, but shortish game though! 
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