Expanding Atmosphere Types

[Fyron]

It would also decrease atmosphere contention with other races.

I could make domed colonies have more space like in FQM for SE4 to compensate. If I made domes impose a 70% reduction instead of 80%, it would more or less balance out. Assuming 100 medium planets, we have breathable facility space + domed space (reduced to facility count for stock 1000 kt all facility size):

20 x 10 + 80 x 2 = 360 stock 5 atm and 20% dome
10 x 10 + 90 x 3 = 370 proposed 10 atm and 30% dome

[Baron Munchausen]

Fyron said:
It would also decrease atmosphere contention with other races.

I could make domed colonies have more space like in FQM for SE4 to compensate. If I made domes impose a 70% reduction instead of 80%, it would more or less balance out. Assuming 100 medium planets, we have breathable facility space + domed space (reduced to facility count for stock 1000 kt all facility size):

20 x 10 + 80 x 2 = 360 stock 5 atm and 20% dome
10 x 10 + 90 x 3 = 370 proposed 10 atm and 30% dome

Might it be possible to do what we discussed eons ago in the beta forum -- make non-breathable atmosphere impose a maintenance penalty instead of a space penalty? That makes far more sense. Especially if you can have it affect population maintenance as well as facility maintenance.

[Fyron]

Baron Munchausen said:
Might it be possible to do what we discussed eons ago in the beta forum -- make non-breathable atmosphere impose a maintenance penalty instead of a space penalty? That makes far more sense. Especially if you can have it affect population maintenance as well as facility maintenance.

Not without new functions, like "Get_Planet_Atmosphere_Type" or "Get_Planet_Is_Domed".

[Kasdar]

Isn't there an Is_Planet_Domed function? I believe I saw it in the modding documentation.

[Fyron]

It was added circa 1.58, after 9/15.

[Kasdar]

ah my eyes were not working I thought the post was dated yesterday oh well

[Fyron]

For those interested, the original discussion concerning atmosphere types has been resurrected over on se5.com, with certain usurpation of stock-type texture creation into a more broad array of texture types... ahem.

http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/4644