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I have played with both 25% luck (pick) and 50% luck (Universalists and pick). Usually I find Rangers, twards trhe end of the game, when enemy Dreadnoughts and Rangers are already present. I have never found a Ranger *early* in the game, but I did once acquire a single ranger when the opposing forces had battleships and death knights. Only reason I survived that game, in fact.... even more so, that game is also when I found *scads* of rangers! One (exactly one) was a Precursor random event ranger; at least nine others were Lucky Rangers, so mnay that I had to disband several because I couldn't afford the maintenance on them!!
I haven't noticed an especially common improvement in start up though.. I still occasionally end up with Class 16 for Earth! Once, though, Saturn was a Class 26 -- needless to say, the Terran government soon transplanted itself!
        
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That's a wast of ressources. You could have traded them to someone.
        
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I always play with creativity and I think it helps you to get hypersensors and such. I think it also gives you more random events aswell. There is one event I really hate though its the precursor corvettes. Getting one hundred+ corvettes when everyone is on overlord is just plain annoying.
 
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trade them to Minors, man. Easy techs.
  
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It would be useful to note that I have never *not* gotten a Ranger with "luck" but again I usually play challenging-painful, haven't reached maso skill yet (or maybe I have, haven't lost on chal or painful yet).
ANYWAY, if someone plays w/o any luck, do they still have lucky/Precursor events? I always play with luck so I don't know...
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Correction to the above, I've played up to crippling with similar results.
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After hitting Ctrl-N a few times, just to get a nicely shaped Gigantic map, I had a 26 in my home system. Without Luck. I do usually take luck, and do often find a 26 within a few sectors. Who knows? I'd really like to know!
It would also be very interesting to know if it did affect random events. Don't care so much about Rangers, though it's a fun surprise.
-Smack
 
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lol i got liek 2 rangers in a game once i don't think i had any luck on that one also had a planet with a PQ 39 by the end of the game researched everything but beyond human i think when i got it was a 20.
I'v seen planets with a better then 1-20 for starting. some i'v seen with like 21 or 22 but rare they are.
Yes i'v played without luck and once got 2 random event rangers they where just in time to i needed them to fight back the enemy right now i have no luck in my current game and found one ranger i use it to escort combat transports (its still early in the game only like 5 years have gone by ingame)
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Hehe... back when you could have +15 pq as a bonus pick, I had a pq 67 planet. That thing CRANKED!
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haha 67 i'd believe it would my 39 finished all my overlords pretty damn quickly its the reason i survived.
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67!
The best PQ booster event I've seen is 60%. Is not 26, the best starting planet?
-Smack
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Plus, I had the +15 pq bonus and that version also had researches that increased pq.
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Luck seems to increase the events like free rangers, but there's a lot of randomness so it's hard to measure.
Creativity is suppose to just improve your chances of getting a 25% research advance when your survey ship investigates an Unknown anomaly - quite useful in the larger sized galaxies.
  
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. Except in my last game: nothing like that happened, in the contrary: I had two assassination war events, and the enemy received the 100 corvettes gift!
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