The Docking Ring thread

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To be honest the Docking Rings could very well be the representation of the top of a space elevator.

And really, that's a very simple and a cost-efficient explanation.

I don't see why we can't just swap the current models of docking rings into the red crosses Tomioka has and call those space elevators though. It's a nice, easy, simple fix that pleases everyone and keeps the lore consistent.

A space elevator requires a counterweight of some description on the space end of it. Docking Rings could very well be "the most ergonomic and efficient deisgn possible manufactured by Ageira". Factions that don't have access to them could use a different source of counterweight such as a large enough blob of iridium or an asteroid.

Those red crosses are just way too ugly.

Well just make the crosses invisible AND dock using your solar scanner :v

Aaaaand actually wasn't the maximum amount of systems limited? Like if we were to add a single system (tomionka's internal atmosphere behaves like a separate system in fact) for each base with a docking ring ... I mean it would be awesome to add all the atmosphere gases (nebulas heading deeper below the plane) but it would require a LOT of free system slots and if I remember well amount of systems was limited.