Zero G Construction

[Panzer]

Ah, a fellow starcraft player I see, been a while since I hard Fenix saying this :)

Planets...

Been planetform before, terraforming something takes ages. Harris and California minor... Still remember the blockade run and the clashes with HF, ancient times.

Anywho, in case of planets, the goodie stacking idea will be critical. Not only money. Terraforming gasses, alien organisms, oxygen, construction machinery, alloys, hydrocarbons, possibly weapons... dozens of commodities required for it. Terraforming takes time, that's for sure. That's why factions should have a good wait before the planet becomes hospitable.

And before it does.

There's a multitude of planet types. Ice, lush gree, desert... Each one, especially the new, uncharted ones should have economic and practical info displayed in the infocard. Minerals, time to terraform, if suitable for it at all, lifeforms (if present) and so on...

Then, when the interested faction stacks the needed goods and pays for the process, the clock starts ticking.

When it's done, the planet basically produces the raw minerals indicated in the infocard. Those can be luxury food, alien orgs, food rations, minerals, perhaps wood (a commodity I honestly miss and which could serve as a luxury - furniture and so on). The planet might also be developed like the stations. Naturally thanks to the abundance of space, there could be more than one field of development. Especially high-tech commodities, like military vehicle, light arms, optronics and engine components.

One more interesting thing to do about planets is their population growth. This will occur by buying a quite special addon. For housing too requires money. Such an addon would enhance the demand for consumer goods and other things of this sort. What more can change? The planet's city model. From the rogh Harris building type, through scarce life on Malta or Crete to the huge Los Angeles city type.

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