There is a waterworld in Wolf 510 that is being terraformed, but since I noticed this about 3 weeks ago, the terraformation process is stuck (255 kº, 5.15 atm, 97%N2, 3%O2) I have decided to help the station with some items it needs, but the last I know is that the terraforming process is completly automated and we can´t do anything. So, can we help to terraform a planet? or the only thing we can do is look and wait?
Can we help to terraform a planet?
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dynamicbob
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such procedural / dynamic processors arent ingame yet, the only way to progress it is if the devs decide to do a CG. May change in the future
Possibly you can... although terraforming a planet would take hundreds of years of game time.... not sure we will still be around to see it happen 
You could try, but you'd be waiting a very long time for any changes at all.
Remember ED runs in Galactic realtime.
Remember ED runs in Galactic realtime.
This. However we could contribute to *start* of terraforming.
Possibly you can... although terraforming a planet would take hundreds of years of game time.... not sure we will still be around to see it happen
You are right with the long time process, but right now there are a ton of earthlike worlds that have been terraformed and they aren´t earthlike at the game start, so terraforming process must be quick in ED time.
Maybe is not very scientific, but i love to see how humans modify the galaxy.
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Terraforming takes years, probably decades, from start to finish. I imagine the speed would also vary, depending on how far away the planet was from "Earthlike" when terraforming started, and whether or not the colonists wish to try to keep any native life alive to coexist with the introduced ecosystem. I'd imagine the budget and ideology of the faction doing the terraforming would also make a difference; lore-wise, the Empire is better at genetic engineering and has been quicker at terraforming lots of planets in a hurry, than the slow, methodical, tech-based Federation approach.
There have been several "finishing terraforming" CGs run since the start of the game, but there haven't been any planets that were completely unterraformed at game launch that have since been finished.
I admit to not having closely watched any of the stats of terraforming planets during an update - so I don't know if the devs manually (or automatically) alter the statistics of planets being terraformed to slowly bring them closer to Earthlike stats.
There have been several "finishing terraforming" CGs run since the start of the game, but there haven't been any planets that were completely unterraformed at game launch that have since been finished.
I admit to not having closely watched any of the stats of terraforming planets during an update - so I don't know if the devs manually (or automatically) alter the statistics of planets being terraformed to slowly bring them closer to Earthlike stats.