[Emperor's Child]

Excellent ideas! This forum is great, lots of new approaches to the same problem!

I was originally going the line of component enhancements to get the same effect based on the bunkers idea found in the UM. Basically, instead of making the planet storage bigger, you can make weapon platform weapons and components cheaper and much more armored by using a component enhancement. In my tinkering effort I've played with the UM's weapon bunker values, and also added a armored flack station and missile silo along the same vein. Basically, the wep platforms have 5x weapons and 35x structure points compared to space based weps of the same tonnage. I'm still tinkering with the values to get the strengths right, probably need to be stronger to require a REALLY big fleet to take them out, and I'll add a "none" Category to allow for smaller/hardened shields and master computers.

Long Name := Planetary Defense Bunker Complex
Short Name := Bunkers
Description := Weapon sites are sited in subterrain stations which protect from enemy fire and houses gigantic power generators giving them a small range improvement.
Code := B
Cost Percent := 100
Tonnage Percent := 20
Tonnage Structure Percent := 700
Damage Percent := 200
Supply Percent := 200
Range Modifier := 4
Weapon To Hit Modifier := 90
Vehicle Size Minimum := 0
Weapon Type Requirement := Direct Fire
Vehicle Type := Weapon Platform

Long Name := Hardened Flack Bunker
Short Name := Flak Bunker
Description := Point Defense complex sited in subterrain stations which protects from enemy fire and houses gigantic power generators giving them a small range improvement.
Code := B
Cost Percent := 100
Tonnage Percent := 20
Tonnage Structure Percent := 700
Damage Percent := 200
Supply Percent := 200
Range Modifier := 2
Weapon To Hit Modifier := 90
Vehicle Size Minimum := 0
Weapon Type Requirement := Point-Defense
Vehicle Type := Weapon Platform

Long Name := Missile Silo Complex
Short Name := Silos
Description := Missile Silos are sited in a subterrain bunkers which protects from enemy fire and are easy to assemble.
Code := S
Cost Percent := 100
Tonnage Percent := 20
Tonnage Structure Percent := 700
Damage Percent := 200
Supply Percent := 200
Range Modifier := 0
Weapon To Hit Modifier := 90
Vehicle Size Minimum := 0
Weapon Type Requirement := Seeking
Vehicle Type := Weapon Platform

[ 05 February 2002: Message edited by: Emperor's Child ]