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[Baron Munchausen]

Kamog said:
Moving facilities around on cargo ships? That would be so useful! Then you can prefabricate an entire huge planet's worth of facilities, go colonize a planet and drop the facilities there along with units and population, and instantly it's fully developed.

But because it's so wildly 'out there' in game terms it ought to be a special technology. Something you can't develop until very late in the game when you'll be thinking of using it to fill ringworlds and sphereworlds.

[Ed Kolis]

Well, if you either have lots of really small facilities (so it can be explained as moving smaller industrial units around) or really huge facilities (so it can be restricted to late-game mega cargo transports) it could work...

[ZeroAdunn]

Actually, facility movement could just represent the movement of equipment or prefarb components that can be assembled on site. Still should take up a lot of space though.....

[Ed Kolis]

Will give a new meaning to the term Colony Ship... especially since space colonies are supposed to be in the game... I wonder if facilities in ship cargo can produce anything?

[Kamog]

Well, I agree, moving facilities around should be a late-game technology and expensive to do. It should require a huge cargo ship to transport a facility. Considering that a medium planet can only hold 15 facilities when full, each facility must be huge, much larger than than a big city.

If a facility in ship cargo can still produce resources, research points, and intelligence, then we won't need planets. We can have races that entirely live in space. But it really doesn't make sense that something like a mineral miner facility could produce minerals when there's no planet to mine. Research and Intel could still be generated on a ship, though.

[cshank2]

It'd be neat if you could choose how you start out, either on a homeplanet, a home station or a home ship. Make for some interesting Roleplay scenarios.