Ooh, tempting... This certainly looks like my type of game.

Ok, yes, I'm in!

1) The crime which will be seeing me marooned on a lifeless planet was, admittedly, a pretty heinous one. I can only plead insanity. Nothing temporary about it, either. It's probably best for everyone to send me far, far away from Earth. What I did, you ask? I played around with some sound-mixing software and created a Nickelback-Abba medley which gained improbable popularity on TikTok before being picked up by a major record label and being played non-stop everywhere for the next six months.

2) My ideal terraformed planet consists of a single large landmass in an otherwise endless ocean, consisting almost entirely of alpine highland, with just a smattering of moss and tiny flowering plants barely clinging to life in the crags. Well, quite a lot of that actually, once you start paying attention. In fact, they seem to positively thrive around the various tiny streams caused by meltwater from slightly further on - though it'll forever baffle me how they do so. This highland plateau is riven with fjords, and in the far depths, there are craggy pine trees bent into the weirdest shapes clinging on for dear life to the steep cliff faces, with curtains of moss handing from their branches, filtering the already dim light (other than for a couple of hours around noon) and lending an otherworldly deep green cast to it all. The tiny streams of the highland plateau combine to send countless narrow waterfalls tumbling down the cliff faces into the fjords, though most of the time the tumbling streams lose cohesion and turn into misty spray blowing around with the wind long before they can reach the waters below. The deep waters of the fjord meanwhile, are frequented by large pods of many types of whales, feeding happily and dreaming their deep dreams.
At the far end of the longest and deepest fjord, there's a tiny pebble-stone beach, which forms the start of the only gradual ascent up to the highlands to be found on the entire planet. There's just enough flat space here for a comfortable block hut.

3) I'd most want to plant a Moreton Bay fig, but unfortunately the planet's conditions aren't really ideal for that particular tree. Still, one dreams eternally about what can't have... Maybe some day I'll terraform the planet further to create a second landmass where this tree can grow happily in all its majestic beauty.

Thank you for your giveaway. I'm in!

1) Gilty of not flushing the toiled after using it (the chain was broken!)
2) Plantet with toilets that flush automatically!
3) Coconut tree, but any nut tree would do (so I would not feel so lonely being only nut there)

ughhh... since it dropped the Win7 support, I'm not in.
but I'll answer the questions anyway!
1) my crime is only eating sausages when consuming hot dogs.
2) I'd turn a planet into Manifold 6's copy.
3) I'd plant pinus sibirica.

Hmmm...

1) I sold warm yogurt as a remedy for lactose intolerance.

2) Ocean world with many islands that go around like bumper cars.

3) Baobab.

NOT IN but thanks for the generous giveaway and happy Earth Day.

Thank you . Thank you , Thank you , i am in.

1-) My crime was that I was fatter than the fattest man in the world. If you are the fattest person, you can own as much land as you can fit in your shadow. They claimed that I was not fatter, I just stood further back, and blamed me.

2-) A planet where the sky is made of water and water is made of sky. This way, we won't need to use an umbrella when it rains.

3-) Of course, water lily. we need clouds

I'm.............. in :)

1) My crime was no crime as it was suspicious that I haven't committed any crime, I made a crime of not doing a crime as this was no possible to not do a crime... Ok you got me. I lied. I've stolen this wonderful piece of rock. My wife told she really want it... There you go.

2) I felt in love with Dune.. but I'm realistic, so want it to be beautiful as Japanese gardens.

3) As we are talking about Japanese - I'd love to have many cherry tries. Those are so beautiful in the Spring. Life wakes up and so we all :)

Queen J celebrating Earth x1000! Thanks for the chance, I'm in with #23!

1) What was your crime?
Producing garbage every single day without any consideration.

2) What would you like your ideal terraformed planet to be like?
An exact copy of our planet prior the Industrial Revolution.

3) What Earth tree would you most want to plant on your new world?
Walnut tree

GL y'all! Particularly to our unlucky third rock from the sun.

LOL! Hi Mighty! :) That's okay, just leave any 'turafurming' to Gilius while ye and Monkey lead the Mighty Monkeys cricket team. ;)

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Thank you to our prospective Terraformers! We have a lot of entertaining and imaginative qualified entries. Enough that I have decided to throw in another copy of the game. So there will be two prisoner applicants selected for Terraforming Pardons. :D Good Luck!

The Planet Crafter reminds me Journey to the Savage Planet (great game, by the way) but this one is more focused on exploration than crafting.
Not in to let people more chance to win but thanks for the GA.

Thank you for this nice giveaway, I'm IN.

1. Caught by the computer game fever, guilty as charged.

2. Where I can play in the great outdoors under the shady trees, between the butterflies and all these insects around me, and honey and fried chicken fly into my mouth.

3. Bonsai trees, they are so cute. :)

Thx for the wonderful giveaway, bjgamer! :)

Not in for the prize, especially after reading AB2012's post about the loss of W7 support.
But definitely in for the Terraformer's Pardon!

1. The year is 2099. The crime was that my android cat, Bolt, was a superspreader security risk. Like most devices, robots and pets in the year 2099, everything ran under Windows Infinity. Out of boredom and curiosity, I decided to sideload Windows 7 onto Bolt's microchip mind. That's when all hell broke loose! For one, he displayed signs of wild freedom and independant playfulness. It was as if Bolt had broken his programming and behaving more like an untamed cat than a proprietary companion. He even began to yowl as if he was "in heat", which was very unusual for an android cat. One morning, he dashed out the door when I was stepping out. Unbeknownst to me, Bolt was on a breeding frenzy. He began a vigorous mating rampage, fraternizing with other stray android cats. And in the process, he was inadvertantly injecting his Windows 7 coding into his Windows Infinity companions, causing their core to corrupt and adopt his defunct os. Soon, most stray cats had caught this coding and those who got adopted into homes, had managed to spread those binairies to other devices, robots and eventually, the internet and military infrastructures. Everything either stopped working or worked erradically. It was a technological nightmare. In the end, there was banging on my door and that is when I got arrested, as Bolt was traced back to me. The authorities truly believed that all of this undoing was a calculated plan on my part (which was far from the truth!) and were reluctantly impressed with my superspreader abilities. Imagine what such a superspreader could accomplish on a terraforming mission! Hence, I was hired for an experimental project, as punishment.

2. My ideal terraformed planet would be a chaotic mishmash of thousands of different biomes co-existing together shoulder-to-shoulder, as if unrealistically procedurally-generated. Rich in fauna immune to extinction and biomes that will never, ever experience wildfires, floods, droughts or any destructive phenomenon. I would also limit that planet's human population to 2000 people. xD

3. I like most Earth trees, but to add a bit of surrealness to the terraformed planet, I would plant a generous amount of Rainbow Eucalyptus trees!

ROFL!!! I'm not sure they would let you near any technology after that! No ... it is dungeons or spirit Ships for you! :P
Thanks for such a fun imaginative post. I'm still laughing! :D

I'm IN.

Radaggarb Legbooter
A serial thief, smuggler and counterfeiter, Legbooter was arrested and convicted for selling stolen cybernetic limbs on the blackmarket. He was caught after a cargo of hasitly loaded left feet shot out of his airlock during an escape from the authorities, leaving an accidental breadcrumb trail for them to follow. If that wasn't bad enough, he tried to bribe the arresting officers with pirated copies of Indiana Jones and the Necromancing Mouse, a crime so heinous it quadrupled his sentence.

Ideal Planet
Vast fields of green grasses, fragrant flowers and edible berry bushes. Little streams, ponds and lakes - no big bodies of water. Sub-tropical climate, but very little storms. Very pleasant summers and mild winters.

Earth Tree
Custard Apple trees. Who doesn't love custard apples?

Thank you for the opportunity. It looks interesting so I'm in.

1) I was walking along and tripped over a loose brick. To vent the frustration I kicked the brick away (minor pain ensued) which unwittingly ended up in the path of a nearby car causing the driver to lose control (they bailed however) and swerve towards a nearby park ultimately crashing into a tree and going up in flames (very dramatic). This caused a chain reaction and thus the whole park was lost and I became a prisoner.

2) Lush and tranquil. Just let nature take it's course.

3) A maple tree.