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Dead areas | Asteroids (suggestion)

Dead areas | Asteroids (suggestion)

Ive thought about it a bit, and maybe dead asteroids should not be colonizable.

The reason I say this is the game is kind of lacking in dead areas, which i think is particularly harmful to concepts like piracy and raiding. Also, almost all battles seem to be sieges. Dead asteroids are already in the game and adhere to this idea... sort of. You can't put logistics structures there and they have no mines. But they are virtually always built up with heavy defenses... requiring a siege, and making raiding impractical, and making empires walls of steel with no vulnerable points.

Also, dead space would serve to make systems feel less crowded with things you gotta colonize.

Unfortunately I couldn't find anything that leaped at me and said "Mod Me!" for this so oh well.

The primary practical concern is that it might cause the AI to crap out... I doubt it wants to deal with dead areas.

In the meantime im going to try lowering their tactical points.



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Reply #26 Top

I would just speed right through the system to hit the more valuable targets.

That's the idea, actually. *g* Doing that while the enemy fleet is there would be bad news for you, tho, which is where fleet battles come in.
Reply #27 Top
For dead asteroids I had made a suggestion in a older post for a kind of massive space station that worked as a mini-planet, I think it was (simply put), a civilian station with a smaller then normal population and made 1/4th the normal trading ships, a military station that was 8 squadrons and 4 gauss guns, and a research station that served as 2 ordinary ones. Or something similar to that respect.


I agree with busby, only the millitary station should have a repair platform also. It would make the dead asteroid a bit more useful.
Reply #28 Top
You can already get defenses at dead asteroids, fully upgraded they give 25 tactical points right now. That's more than enough for your 8 squadrons (4 hangars, 16 points), 4 gauss guns (4 points) and a repair platform (3 points).