Now that i was able to start my first game with this mod i have collected a little feedback. for context i am playing on exceptional sized galaxy, endless speed, max amount of opponents... and most other settings on maxed out as well. My starting race are the Riftborn.

a serious bug i have is that i can settle all planets except for gas even though i don't haven't researched the according tech for most of the planet types. unfortunately i don't know if that was so right from the start. i also can't tell if the AI/other factions have the same issue yet.

another thing is the Riftborns starting planet and its minor population. this isn't a bug but a balancing thing. The 'snow' planet is now classified as 'tempered' and 'mild' while their minors are Epistis which have a +5 food bonus on 'harsh'. now Riftborn population doesn't produce any food by themselves and now this also applies to their minors. Furthermore their special snow planet yields very little food on its own (1 with +2 bonus) while population and manpower consumption eats up almost all harvest. so it is quite difficult for the food based population to grow.

the last observation is just a naming issue. 'tundra', 'snow' and 'arctic' all are 'temperate' rather then 'freezing' which is very counter intuitive unless the freezing temperature of CO2 or oxygen was meant rather then that of water. looking at the planet pictures i think 'biosphere' would make for a better tag to describe them - in the sense that there are regions that can support some sort of native life.