Space Buildings: What do you want to see?

[Scarecrow63]

This is plenty on topic, centerpoint is a space building, which is what this topic is about

[Isamu]

this isn't exactly space buildings but its close. fondor should have an asteroid system near it to simulate their ship building resources. i suggest this be a separate system and be worth a ton of credits.

[vadereclipse]

this isn't exactly space buildings but its close. fondor should have an asteroid system near it to simulate their ship building resources. i suggest this be a separate system and be worth a ton of credits.

centerpoint station- a building in space. a space building.
centerpoint is more on topic than asteroids on fondor. fondor exploited nearby worlds. why would they put asteroids near a shipyard?  that would destroy the ships being built there, and the docks.

[Corey]

Actually, most shipyard planets had nearby asteroid fields. They will be represented in the spacxe maps of those planets and their income, but they won't be separate planets.

[Isamu]

ah okay

[ca3ba]

I suggest an orbital defense station. I know a number of different factions used them, including some wealthy pirates. They were mainly used to defend planetary systems however sometimes used in other areas such as trade routes. Perhaps it could take the place of the gravity well generator or long range scanner for a faction. Maybe the CIS could use them as there is mention of both the Trade Federation and the Banking Clan employing large well-armed satellites to defend trade routes and controlled planets.

I think there would be some limitations in that I believe you could only have one additional defense station accompanying your main space station because it would take the place of either the scanner or the gravity well. Never the less I think it is possible to change the name of the gravity well, take away it's abilities, change the model/skin and give it hard points and armaments. That of course is a dumbed down version of the trouble the mod-team would have to go through in order to do such a thing. I personally feel like with the increase in space pop cap that the normal space station is rather weak and the "Orbital Defense Station" would go a long way in helping stave off those Rebel/Republic/Vong invaders. 

This is a suggestion for all factions in general however I have to look out for my fellow confederates so here's a canonizing link! Your support and feedback, are as always, very welcome. Also, I realize I have no idea how to make my suggestion work on a technical level so if this would be far too complex and time consuming remember it's just a suggestion and I do not mean to cause the mod-team any extra stress!

-Ca3ba-

[Enlil]

For the most part that would be your Golan stations.  Unless you have something special in mind...

[Slornie]

I suggest an orbital defense station. I know a number of different factions used them, including some wealthy pirates. They were mainly used to defend planetary systems however sometimes used in other areas such as trade routes. Perhaps it could take the place of the gravity well generator or long range scanner for a faction. Maybe the CIS could use them as there is mention of both the Trade Federation and the Banking Clan employing large well-armed satellites to defend trade routes and controlled planets.

As far as i know, your idea has already been included in the mod, with the plan being to give each faction a unique defence platform:  Golans for the Empire, XQ platforms for the Alliance, and a newly designed platform (from our resident Concept Artist) for the EotH.

I think there would be some limitations in that I believe you could only have one additional defense station accompanying your main space station because it would take the place of either the scanner or the gravity well. Never the less I think it is possible to change the name of the gravity well, take away it's abilities, change the model/skin and give it hard points and armaments. That of course is a dumbed down version of the trouble the mod-team would have to go through in order to do such a thing. I personally feel like with the increase in space pop cap that the normal space station is rather weak and the "Orbital Defense Station" would go a long way in helping stave off those Rebel/Republic/Vong invaders.

From what i can gather, i think the limit of two special structures has been removed (although only two of those built will show on the Galactic Map), and the defence platforms will be an extra option for you to build, along with the various levels of shipyards required to build your ships.

If im wrong on this, Arbiter will be along to correct me later

[Corey]

Slornie is more or less correct, but I'll give some more specifics. Each faction has their standard starbase, then you have some additional slots for those buildings, the amount of which vary from planet to planet, as do what you can build there. For example, you'd have more slots on Kuat than on Dantooine. The options you have for those slots vary between factions:

Empire:
Shipyards- Light Frigate, Heavy Frigate, Capital, Heavy Capital
Defence- Golan I, Golan II, Golan III
Other- Scanners

Rebellion:
Shipyards- Light Frigate, Heavy Frigate, Capital
Defence- XQ5 (We're only including one kind because all six XQs are basically the same thing)
Other- Scanners

Empire of the Hand:
Shipyards- Light Frigate, Heavy Frigate, Capital, Heavy Capital
Defence- Four "confidential" platforms
Other- Scanners

Obviously, you wouldn't be able to build everything everywhere. Golan Is, XQ5s, one of the EotH platforms, scanners and Light frigate shipyards are the only things able to be built everywhere.

[Isamu]

i would like to suggest some kind of longrange orbital weapon similar to a diamond boron system only much more accurate

[Meyer]

Four "confidential" platforms. I wonder what those are?