Planetary rings - another suggestion

[E. Albright]

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Originally posted by capnq:
There's a small problem with the dome facility idea: you have to colonize the planet before you can build any facilities. If you have to have a dome if you can't breathe the atmosphere, you'll need to capture another race before you can colonize any atmoshere you can't breathe.

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The easiest solution for this would be to allow colony ships to plant a single dome. If this seems too generous, make additional colony components which are more expensive (and if you really want to annoy, larger) but have this capability.

[rdouglass]

What about making additional tech levels for the colonization components. Remember SE3 and the incremental colony types - I think they were 1M, 10M, and 100M IIRC. Maybe you could do something like that - Rock I only allows your atmosphere type, Rock II gives 1 dome, Rock III gives 2 domes, etc. I don't do a whole lot of modding so I don't know if this is even possible - probably has to have some hard coding somewhere - maybe an idea for SE5??

ANyways, I like the idea - more variety is good as long as it doesn't sacrifice gameplay...

[CyC]

I like the idea of the orbital rings
although i think it will onlt increase pop storage and not really facilities.

hard to build a mineral miner on an orbital platform, but all other facilities are goable.